This is why it's so #expensive to #fix our #electronics

Smart Phones and Other Tech Products Are Polluting Our Planet. Sign to Tell Electronics Companies Enough Is Enough. Sign Now Dear friends, In January 2019, the giant electronics company Samsung announced it was ditching non-essential plastic in its electronics and mobile phones. Instead, it will use bioplastics and recyclable materials like paper. This is great news and follows a number of other industry leaders, including Apple and Huawei, which are doing the same. Yet the electronics industry is still responsible for a massive amount of non-recyclable waste — often because it is hard and expensive to repair our electronic goods. And that's by design: the whole point is to keep us buying more products, and throwing away more plastic waste. A popular saying goes, "reduce, reuse, and recycle." But some companies are making it so hard to repair their products that reducing, reusing, and recycling is essentially impossible. That has to change. When tech gadgets end up in the garbage, they become a form of toxic pollution — and they're piling up faster and faster. Companies have the power to make their products last longer and make repairs easier so that fewer electronics are going to landfills. Lots of tech corporations say they care about the environment. Let's hold them to it. Electronics producers must create an industry-wide agreement making the right to repair a cornerstone of their sustainability policies. Sign the petition! Thank you for all that you do,   Andrew M. The Care2 Petitions Team P.S. Save the planet. Join the right to repair movement. Sign the petition.