Consumer goods should be repairable, freeing owners from the cycle of ‘throw it away and buy a new one’. If, like me, you are angered by the increasingly “throw-away” culture which pervades technology products you might wonder, like me, why the government can’t be more active in encouraging, even forcing companies that make consumer goods ...

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