{"id":18496,"date":"2015-03-13T11:15:24","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T15:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145705.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=18496"},"modified":"2015-03-13T11:21:02","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T15:21:02","slug":"the-waste-biz-french-manufacturers-must-offer-gadget-appliance-repair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/the-waste-biz-french-manufacturers-must-offer-gadget-appliance-repair\/","title":{"rendered":"The Waste Biz: French Manufacturers Must Offer Gadget, Appliance Repair"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_18497\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18497\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/appliance-repair.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18497 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/appliance-repair.jpg\" alt=\"appliance repair required by law in france\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/appliance-repair.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/appliance-repair-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18497\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/pic-178690403\/stock-photo-handyman-repairing-a-washing-machine.html?src=J5QcLczdPOc0BsIqV88Umw-1-10\">Shutterstock<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ever had an electronic items or a <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2015\/02\/24\/household-cooking-appliances-get-1st-sustainability-standard\/\">home appliance<\/a> stop working shortly after the warranty period? It&#8217;s pretty frustrating, and seems more common these days. Products don&#8217;t just last like they used to&#8230; and that means much more waste heading for landfills. New French laws aim to counter this trend of the cheap and short-lived product: manufacturers are going to have to add labels that inform consumers about how long spare parts will be available for a product. Next year, they&#8217;ll have to take products back for repair or replacement for a full two years.<\/p>\n<p>No doubt, these requirements will get designers thinking about product quality: it&#8217;ll be cheaper in the long run for a company to make products that last rather than repair\/replace products that don&#8217;t. And, as Adele Peters at <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcoexist.com\/3043252\/world-changing-ideas\/this-new-french-law-is-designed-to-make-products-easier-to-repair-so-th?utm_content=buffer0d246&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\">FastCo.Exist<\/a><\/em> observes, those spare parts notifications &#8211; which essentially tell consumers how long the manufacturer plans to support a product &#8211; give a hint about life cycle expectations.<\/p>\n<p>The French are leading the pack on the producer responsibility front; it&#8217;ll be interesting to see what countries follow suit.<\/p>\n<p>Other stories from the waste sector:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Going circular creates jobs:<\/strong> UK-based non-profit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wrap.org.uk\/\">WRAP<\/a> released a report showing the job creation expectations of resource efficiency increases created by reuse, recycling, and repair. Co-authored with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.green-alliance.org.uk\/\">Green Alliance<\/a>,\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wrap.org.uk\/content\/employment-and-circular-economy\">Employment and the circular economy: job creation in a more resource efficient Britain<\/a><\/em>\u00a0predicts that over 200,000 jobs could be created in this sector by 2030, and many of them would be appropriate for low and medium skilled workers (who are generally hardest hit by economic shifts).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Auto parts can now go in Zero\u00a0Waste Boxes:<\/strong> a few months ago, we covered <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/2014\/12\/canadians-can-now-recycle-single-serve-coffee-pods-price\/\">Terracycle&#8217;s Zero Waste Box<\/a>. Not only has this concept come to the US, but it&#8217;s also vastly expanded: boxes for products ranging from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recyclingtoday.com\/terracycle-box-auto-parts-recycling.aspx\">automotive parts<\/a> to action figures are now available (as well as &#8220;single stream&#8221; boxes). The company has <a href=\"http:\/\/zerowasteboxes.terracycle.com\/\">boxes available<\/a> for both consumers and commercial users. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wastedive.com\/news\/terracycle-dabbles-in-auto-parts-recycling\/374194\/\">Waste Dive<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The French have passed a new law that requires gadget &#038; appliance repair or replacement for two years, and job creation in a circular economy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":18497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,13],"tags":[7961,7955,704,7960,7611,7956,530,4661,7958,2188,2261,7959,39,1559,496,7778,7957,7587],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Gadget, Appliance Repair Required in France<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The French have passed a new law that requires gadget &amp; appliance repair or replacement for two years, and job creation in a circular economy...\" 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