Single-use packaging is already a major contributor to a growing waste crisis. But Costco intentionally supersizes its packaging because it looks more uniform and organized on store shelves.

Tell Costco to ditch excessive and unnecessary packaging:

pirg.org/take-action/te…

Microsoft is inching closer to extending Windows 10 support, offering to add security updates for schools for just a few dollars per device. Learn about our campaign led by Lucas Rockett Gutterman 🚀 to help convince the company avoid e-waste wave: pirg.org/articles/why-m…

This is a great piece, and confirms the broader scale of a piece I did a long time ago: Apple has 'must shred' agreements with e-waste recyclers that require them to destroy devices that could easily be repaired/refurbished/reused after having data wiped

bloomberg.com/news/features/…

Incredible expose on how Apple shreds fixable and working devices. Kyle Wiens lauds those who tried to reuse devices set to be shredded:

'As for the GEEP workers who stole and resold iPhones, he says, 'I would argue that they were doing God’s work.''

bloomberg.com/news/features/…

'Parents use chores to teach essential lessons such as responsibility or the value of work. My chores led me to campaign for the Right to Repair.'

pirg.org/articles/why-d…

I love this

“I’m really hoping that
manufacturers start to work with
us and start to really use their
genius to make stuff that lasts a
long time and allows people to fix
it and keep using it when it
breaks,” Nathan Proctor U.S. PIRG

fastcompany.com/91092027/how-o…

HE CAN HAVE MY HEART

The Colorado Senate just approved Right to Repair from committee by a vote of 5-2. It now goes to the Senate floor. The fight continues -- make sure to tell your legislators to support #righttorepair everywhere.

“Nathan Proctor, who has lobbied states for repair legislation on behalf of U.S. PIRG, a nonprofit largely funded by small donors, said the move was a small step in the right direction. 'It was always a preposterous and ridiculous practice'' nytimes.com/2024/04/11/tec…

“Let’s be 100 percent clear: This move is because of state lawmakers pushing back on this practice,”... said me!

wired.com/story/apple-ip…

There should be an action movie featuring a wrestler as the one who beats up the baddies. Like the criminal syndicate ruining a small town get thwarted by former all-state wrestler who they can't even hit once, because their arms are instantly wrenched behind them

It’s been 4 years since the United Nations last released its authoritative international report on e-waste. The findings are shocking.

Here are six of the most surprising facts from the United Nations’ 2024 Global E-Waste Monitor which which underscore the urgency of our campaign: 🧵

So you can actually fix a phone without losing features, as long as you use only Apple parts, but only for select models, and sometime this fall. Yay?

Better yet, enact strong real #RighttoRepair protections.

apple.com/newsroom/2024/…

This practice was patently ridiculous to begin with, and there still a number of limitations apple.com/newsroom/2024/…

HOME AS A SERVICE 😬“The goal is to further evolve LG ThinQ UP appliances that upgrade functions customers need even after purchase and evolve into a ‘Home as a Service’ platform that combines hyper-personalization, subscriptions and smart home services.” pirg.org/articles/unsub…

We replace durable tech with 'smart' products and 'more complex, internet-capable appliances are, by nature, more vulnerable, less durable, harder to fix, and frankly, just worse. In the face of a growing e-waste crisis, that’s the last ting we want.' pirg.org/articles/unsub…

Agree. It’s clearly the only ethical or even logical way to make headphones