While the repair of electronic goods is often hidden from view, Julia Corwin went behind the scenes of India’s used electronics industry to show the environmental value of repair work. Most of us ...

When is the last time you had some electronic product repaired? Didn’t you just throw away the defective product and get a new better one? Or not? I have come to view electronic equipment as basically ...

Lawmakers in five states introduced a bill that aims to grant consumers the “right to repair” electronics, obligating manufacturers to sell replacement parts to owners and independent repair shops as ...

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If you’re considering purchasing a new gadget—whether that’s a laptop, a video game console, or a digital camera—you might expect to have access to whatever repair manuals or spare parts the ...

Update: New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the Digital Fair Repair Act into law on Dec. 29, 2022. Chuck Bell, advocacy program director for Consumer Reports, says, “New York is leading the way on the ...