Thanks for sharing this Roger
It was great to see prominent coverage of this in The Guardian! Although with this particular article, it’s worth knowing that it gets a number of details wrong. For example it conflates the US Right to Repair campaign and the European Right to Repair campaign (of which the European Environmental Bureau is a member). They are separate entities, each focused on their respective side of the Atlantic.
It was also a little disappointing to see so little focus on the wider environmental aspects of obsolescence (i.e. it’s not just about tonnage of e-waste, but also the vast energy use and material extraction required to maintain this business model.)
There are also some topics here on Talk about some of the points raised in the article: