EU to make it mandatory to use customer-replaceable batteries in household items

Re:EU to make it mandatory to use customer-replaceable batte... by Tams80 on Sunday March 13, 2022 @12:05PM (#30662519)

Sustainability-wise, parts need to have a significant mark-up. Otherwise:

1. People will either themselves bodge devices together, or get someone else to do so. 2. Companies will find it hard to sell new products if they can all be fixed easily. If the parts have a mark-up, they can be a good revenue stream.

Unfortunately, companies are greedy and still make stuff hard/impossible to repair while charging high mark-ups for what can be.

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Re:EU to make it mandatory to use customer-replaceable batte... by adhesive_wombat on Sunday March 13, 2022 @04:32PM (#30665421)

Sustainable in the "humanity gets to live above ground in 2100" sense, not "CEO yachts-per-year must never fall" sense.

Funnily enough the second sense does eventually require the first, but not in this accounting period.

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