The right to repair is being taken serious in the USA

[Uncle Fester]

...well if you finally have a decent US president who not only talks but does and signs an executive order to crack down on companies who practice these unfair restrictions for third party and private repair work.



Question is if the Asian companies will follow when they find out that people might now prefer to purchase repairable devices and appliances with longevity and stop suffocating in landfill.

I call out to shame companies like Samsung, who's practice is to sell appliances with no spare parts available just only a few years later, which I have personally experienced too many times in their refrigeration and A/C sector.


As Australia doesn't manufacture anything(significant) this movement does not seem so important but our legislation could do something to promote the availability of spare parts with less restrictions and taxes or even subsidies, like remove the GST for import of spare parts, because when it comes to landfill and our lack of re-use/ recycle attitude we could be the worst offenders in the civilised world.

Because our local council has banned kerbside collections, where people used to locate items to fix or reuse, we now have to bring all our rubbish to the next town because our landfill is overloaded so we are now charged more rates for that.
20 years ago there was a more 'lefty' oriented council that actually had a shop at the tip for things they considered that could still be used and also a a recycled building materials depot where you could find really great old hard wood that no termite would touch and on top of that was a metal recycle shop where you could bring or buy all kinds useful materials for the creative mindset.
This is all long gone and the only way for people to get rid of their bulky goods is to pay a fee even if you deliver it yourself. I think it is $250 per trailer for old building materials.

That is how efficient the bureaucratic rot in our council has become.