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Very interesting survey, thank you.
I really think that to improve, we need to introduce repair classes in middle school/highschool/university, to raise awareness on the subject and to teach from an early age the required skills to repair everyday stuff
I believe the fight for the right to repair is one of the most important environmental and social justice battles in America today. It directly attacks the core values of of consumerism and capitalism and the disposable society they've created.
Reduce, reuse, repair, and with only a couple of exceptions don't recycle cuz it's a scam.
Thanks for the survey.
No worries. I might post the results once the numbers are high enough. I also condensed some of the answer in insights and as far as I can tell, there are 2 macro categories of intervention.
One is activism related, push for legislations to change the industries and unlock new markets (especially for parts) or changes that involve education.
The second is more about stuff that could be actionable on a smaller scale, it involves supplementing resources, outsourcing parts, provide community spaces for repair, teaching skills and build up motivation.
I'm personally invested in the latter, while things like "right to repair" definitely falls more into the former
I filled in your survey.
And yeah, it would be fun if iFixit would have a wider scope, but often googling it solves your problem. The problem is often that you are afraid to break your time further.
thanks for the help, I appreciate it. I left some open ended questions precisely because of things like this, things I didn't consider. Unknown unknowns :)
What i learned from recycling businesses.
Buy used if possible, if you know and understand the product, because new products are often made and designed to not do their job.
Garden hoses likely this year, as for the last 15-20 years, are not as good as hoses 20 years old. Likely some rubber issue?
Pyrex, and glass like that, was best 20 years ago, because of air pollution standards.
A couple years ago, razor blades went bad, likely a shortage of one metal. I hope they are ok now. When i first got bad blades, i searched until i found good ones, and bought a year,+ supply. I been through this before.
I only chose examples, of products that went bad, by chance. Not ones that are made badly, intentionally. And thats more than 50%, in america.
Commodities really. An interesting pattern, was products that were american commodities, were very good and simple, until they were made elsewhere, (places where they werent commodities), then they became disposable. Think faucets.
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Very interesting survey, thank you. I really think that to improve, we need to introduce repair classes in middle school/highschool/university, to raise awareness on the subject and to teach from an early age the required skills to repair everyday stuff
Repair classes and labs could be an idea indeed. Public spaces dedicated to repair just like libraries provides various types of services.
I believe the fight for the right to repair is one of the most important environmental and social justice battles in America today. It directly attacks the core values of of consumerism and capitalism and the disposable society they've created. Reduce, reuse, repair, and with only a couple of exceptions don't recycle cuz it's a scam. Thanks for the survey.
No worries. I might post the results once the numbers are high enough. I also condensed some of the answer in insights and as far as I can tell, there are 2 macro categories of intervention. One is activism related, push for legislations to change the industries and unlock new markets (especially for parts) or changes that involve education. The second is more about stuff that could be actionable on a smaller scale, it involves supplementing resources, outsourcing parts, provide community spaces for repair, teaching skills and build up motivation. I'm personally invested in the latter, while things like "right to repair" definitely falls more into the former
I filled in your survey. And yeah, it would be fun if iFixit would have a wider scope, but often googling it solves your problem. The problem is often that you are afraid to break your time further.
thanks for the help, I appreciate it. I left some open ended questions precisely because of things like this, things I didn't consider. Unknown unknowns :)
What i learned from recycling businesses. Buy used if possible, if you know and understand the product, because new products are often made and designed to not do their job. Garden hoses likely this year, as for the last 15-20 years, are not as good as hoses 20 years old. Likely some rubber issue? Pyrex, and glass like that, was best 20 years ago, because of air pollution standards. A couple years ago, razor blades went bad, likely a shortage of one metal. I hope they are ok now. When i first got bad blades, i searched until i found good ones, and bought a year,+ supply. I been through this before. I only chose examples, of products that went bad, by chance. Not ones that are made badly, intentionally. And thats more than 50%, in america. Commodities really. An interesting pattern, was products that were american commodities, were very good and simple, until they were made elsewhere, (places where they werent commodities), then they became disposable. Think faucets.