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Photo by Mark A Phillips<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year’s edition of Fixfest<\/a>, the international gathering for community repair, took place in Brussels from 30th September to 2nd October. The weekend combined policy talks, fun repairing stunts and workshops. 
On Friday the 30th of September, the Right to Repair Campaign<\/a> organized the policy session \u201cEuropean Right to Repair still loading \u231b\ufe0f\u201d, which launched Fixfest. We focused on how policy developments in Europe can make repair easier, cheaper and more accessible for everyone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Watch the recording of the conference<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

After the conference, fixers descended on a busy Brussels shopping street to call for longer lasting gadgets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Protest press release<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Fixfest launch-event: European Right to Repair still loading <\/strong>\u231b\ufe0f<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Everyday, short-lived electronic devices<\/strong> are sold on the EU market, wasting EU citizens\u2019 money<\/strong> and depleting the world of finite resources<\/strong>. The stream of e-waste reached 50 million tonnes in 20181<\/a><\/sup> and is expected to double by 2050, reaching 120 million tonnes annually2<\/a><\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This growing consumption of electronics has significant environmental impacts<\/strong> due to energy and material intensive activities such as resource extraction, manufacturing and end of life treatment. When these products are discarded, only a small portion can be effectively recovered through recycling. Keeping products in use for as long as possible reduces the need to make more!<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cExtending the lifetime<\/strong> of all washing machines, notebooks, vacuum cleaners and smartphones in the EU by just one year would save around 4 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) annually by 2030, the equivalent of taking over 2 million cars off the roads for one year<\/strong>\u201d3<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than half of EU consumers have environmental impact in mind when shopping4<\/a><\/sup> and 8 out of 10 are in favour of making repairs easier5<\/a><\/sup>. Furthermore, making repairs more accessible would boost quality jobs<\/strong> and turnover<\/strong> among repairers, manufacturers, dealers of spare parts and sellers of used products in all EU Member States6<\/a><\/sup>. Repairs are labour-intensive activities which are difficult to move abroad while the effective production of consumer goods often takes place outside Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the past few months, the right to repair has been hitting the news as policy-makers and manufacturers worldwide have started to look into this issue. At EU level, things are moving but repair is still far from being easy, cheap and accessible for everyone<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the conference professional and community repairers, innovative tech start-ups and environmental NGOs reiterated how EU policies can be instrumental in overcoming remaining barriers to repair<\/strong>. We also presented the environmental savings<\/strong> and socio-economic opportunities<\/strong> that transitioning out of the throw-away economy of electronics could bring to Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Watch the recording of the conference<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Agenda<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

9:30 – 10:20 Introduction to the campaign & remaining barriers to repair<\/strong>, moderated by Narmine Abou Bakari, Digital Rights Campaigner, Greens\/EFA<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n