by stefanie | Sep 15, 2021 | Around the Industry
Oman targets low-income households to create 250 jobs in the IT repair sector and based in commercial centres. The Oman government, through the Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs launched the initiative which aims to employ 250 citizens in the IT repair...
by stefanie | Sep 14, 2021 | World Focus
Australia must join the global ‘right to repair’ movement with a holistic reform of consumer, competition and environmental law to ensure recognition of consumers’ ‘right to repair’ goods rather than having to throw them out and replace them. Speaking at Australia’s...
by stefanie | Aug 27, 2021 | Around the Industry
The German municipality of Thuringia’s Environment Ministry and consumer advice centre started a repair bonus in June. From the broken coffee machine to the broken cell phone, repairing instead of throwing it away protects the environment, but it is often more...
by stefanie | Aug 5, 2021 | World Focus
The French based Halt Obsolescence Programme (HOP) has expressed their concerns that the monetary amount envisaged to be allocated by the EEE sector to lower the cost of repairing equipment is less than the sum required. France plans to introduce the repair fund for...
by stefanie | Jul 26, 2021 | Around the Industry
Apple co-founder, Steve Wozniak, is the latest high-profile supporter for the “right to repair”. In a cameo video for Louis Rossmann, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak talks about the Right to Repair issue, and comments in the video: “We wouldn’t have had an...
