by stefanie | May 9, 2022 | World Focus
Decrees published in the Official Journal of 4 May 2022 formalised the extension of the repairability index to six new product categories. New categories include top-loading washing machines, dishwashers, robot vacuum cleaners, wired and non-wired and high pressure...
by stefanie | May 9, 2022 | Around the Industry
ETIRA said that it will be able to further spread its reuse message after translating several information brochures into different languages. The brochures freely available for download, promote ETIRA’s certification label which helps customers and companies make the...
by stefanie | Apr 4, 2022 | World Focus
Having turned down the Voluntary Agreements proposal for imaging equipment, the European Commission has proposed new rules and guidelines which will go to greater lengths in order to achieve the objectives outlined by the Circular Economy Action Plan (CEAP), which the...
by stefanie | Mar 30, 2022 | World Focus
Time to end the ‘take, make, break, and throw away” model as the European Commission publishes its Ecodesign and Energy Labelling Working Plan 2022-2024 and rejects the OEMs Voluntary Agreement for imaging. The working plan confirmed the Commissions assessment that...
by stefanie | Mar 4, 2022 | World Focus
In the David and Goliath war started by Mr Putin, the President of Russia and supported by his toadying collaborator, the President of Belarus, the human impacts on the ordinary people of Ukraine are unimaginable. As the editor of a B2B trade publication with...