Right to Repair off to the races in 2021 with 14 active states
While following the same goal, France's trying a different approach: a repair score [1] that will be stamped on products:<p><i>Concretely, a grade out of 10 will be added to the labels of washing machines, laptops, smartphones, TVs and lawn mowers. This score will be calculated based on criteria such as: ease of disassembly, price and availability of spare parts and access to repair information.</i><p>No new market rule but a more informed consumer. I thought you guys would like this "free-market makes-best-decisions" gov lobbying.<p>Hope it won't end as the precedent: we got a "healthy-score" on most food products -which is great- but the cheese lobby put much effort to gets special rules as salt and fat would give them an awful grade [2]<p>1: <a href="https://repair.eu/fr/news/french-repairability-index-what-to-expect-in-january/" rel="nofollow">https://repair.eu/fr/news/french-repairability-index-what-to...</a><p>2: <a href="https://www.santepubliquefrance.fr/content/download/150263/file/QR%2520scientifique%2520et%2520technique_EN_271020.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.santepubliquefrance.fr/content/download/150263/f...</a>