The European Green Deal is here! But what does it mean for Right to Repair and repairable products? Is recycling still the priority?

The European Commission is currently reviewing options to improve the design of game consoles and printers. We need repairability to be considered.

As part of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Disruptive Innovation Festival, we were invited to present the campaign and chat about the state of repair alongside some experts on the topic.

To highlight the importance of repair and to express their admiration and support to all repairers, Belgian organisations transformed the statue of Mercator in Brussels into ‚Mercator the repairer‘.

For several months now, Google has been blocking advertisements from independent repairers, as opposed to those from manufacturers and their authorised repairers. Runder Tisch Reparatur turned to the EU to draw attention to Google’s behaviour.