Tom Marieb of Apple discusses the company’s shifts on repairability during a session at the Electronics Sustainability Summit. | Courtesy of Electronics Sustainability Summit
About 600 electronics recycling, repair and manufacturing stakeholders convened in Austin, Texas, for the first annual Electronics Sustainability Summit hosted by electronics certification organization SERI. Continue Reading
The Electronics Sustainability Summit, held in Austin, Texas, from Oct. 22-24, featured a day focused on mobile device repair. | Colin Staub / Resource Recycling, Inc.
Repair shops and advocates convened during the first day of the Electronics Sustainability Summit this week to share tips on improving repair businesses, the evolution of OEM and repair community relationships and the repair legislative landscape. Continue Reading
Rendering showing what iFixit’s facility in Chattanooga, Tenn. will look like after a major building rehabilitation project. | Courtesy of iFixit
This story has been updated.
When iFixit went looking for an eastern U.S. site to set up a new logistics/distribution facility, it didn’t feel right to build a facility from the ground up. After all, the company’s ethos is repair, CEO Kyle Wiens said. Continue Reading