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Gay Gordon-Byrne: Why do big manufacturers prevent you from repairing your own stuff?
Gay Gordon-Byrne: Why do big manufacturers prevent you from repairing your own stuff?
Manufacturers intentionally make their products hard to fix. Right-to-repair advocate Gay Gordon-Byrne fights for laws to stop companies from monopolizing repairs and let people fix their own stuff.
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It's the TED Radio Hour from NPR. I'm Manoush Zomorodi. Getting a fancy new phone or computer can feel so exciting, like you have a super power, until it inevitably slows down, freezes or stops working all together. It is so aggravating. But there are some people who actually find it thrilling if their stuff stops working.
GORDON-BYRNE: Back in 2013, the EPA estimated that the average U.S. household already owned 28 digitally driven gizmos and gadgets. It was everything from garage door openers and hot tub controls to smart toasters. If we just do a little math and multiply 28 times our roughly 123 million households, we come up with a pretty staggering 3 1/2 billion pieces of e-waste that don't belong in our landfills, and they are costly and difficult to put back as raw materials.
When we look a little more closely what's even possible with recycling, I think we've been ignoring some really ugly truths. By the time a laptop or a refrigerator or even an electric toothbrush gets in our hands, almost all of the environmental damage has already been done - all the costs of mining and refining and smelting and transportation. And we don't see these costs when we go to the store. And we don't see the human costs of terrible labor conditions and exposure to toxic materials. So fixing more and throwing away less just makes sense.
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