{"id":23704,"date":"2022-06-07T09:36:34","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T13:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=23704"},"modified":"2022-06-07T09:36:34","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T13:36:34","slug":"23704","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/23704\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

In a bill passed by the New York state legislature last week, digital electronics manufacturers \u2013 such as Apple or Samsung \u2013 would need to make repair instructions and spare parts available to consumers and independent technicians.<\/span><\/p>\n

The \u201cright to repair\u201d legislation, which is awaiting the governor\u2019s signature for it to become law, is the first of its kind in the U.S.. This follows a tedious campaign spearheaded by tech and environmental activists, who claim that manufacturers unfairly monopolize the ability to repair their products.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis legislation ends what is a monopoly on the repair market by corporate actors and incentivizes competition within the industry,\u201d said Patricia Fahy, an assembly member and the bill\u2019s principal sponsor.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to one study from the Public Interest Research Group, enabling American consumers to repair their electronic products instead of replacing them, would save $40 billion yearly. The group also said that electronic waste accounts for much of the nation\u2019s waste stream, with more than 6.9 million tons annually.<\/span><\/p>\n

The New York legislation would apply to digital devices such as phones and laptops, but exclude medical devices or agricultural products.<\/span><\/p>\n

If signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul, the law will take effect in mid-2023.<\/span><\/p>\n

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For more information, read the original story<\/a> in Gothamist.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a bill passed by the New York state legislature last week, digital electronics manufacturers \u2013 such as Apple or Samsung \u2013 would need to make repair instructions and spare parts available to consumers and independent technicians. The \u201cright to repair\u201d legislation, which is awaiting the governor\u2019s signature for it to become law, is the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,356],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companies","category-legislation-regulation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23706,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23704\/revisions\/23706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}