People should be able to easily repair a broken product like a washing machine or computer rather than throwing it away and buying a new one.
So says Fine Gael MEP Deirdre Clune who was speaking in the European Parliament in Strasbourg. Tomorrow MEPs will vote on a range of proposals to give consumers incentives to repair products rather than replace them. They want rules to ensure products like computers, white goods and mobile phones last longer and that consumers have access to cheap spare parts and software updates
Their recommendations will feed into new European Commission plans to create ‘right to repair’ rules.
Here’s Deirdre Clune.
Out words: stop that
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