💥 Big news: @microsoft.com confirmed that #Windows10 users in the EEA will get 1 more year of free updates if they log in with a Microsoft account. 🌟 This is a win worth celebrating. Our campaigning, writing and chanting forced one of the world’s #tech giants to act.

🚨4 weeks until @microsoft.com ends free support for Windows 10, making 400 million PCs obsolete. And - ironically - it's happening on #EWasteDay, just days before #RepairDay. We don’t have to accept fast tech. Communities worldwide are repairing, resisting, and demanding better ✊ find out how below

Fixfest 2025 is a wrap! 🎉 Thank you to everyone who came and shared your experience, skills and enthusiasm with us — whether you travelled from across the globe or simply from down the street in Hackney 💚 Let's keep working together for a more repairable world! www.youtube.com/watch?v=MptX...

With #Fixfest coming up this week, we thought we'd highlight a couple of sessions that focus on our shared struggle for a real #righttorepair. This includes a massive round-up of R2R around the world, and another session focusing in on progress in the UK. ⁠ ⁠ 🔎 Explore the programme at fixfest.org

This summer, the European Commission quietly launched a “public consultation.” They call it a “simplification” of environmental laws, but in reality, it’s about dismantling them.

How many times have you heard "repair is just too expensive"? Too often, consumers are pushed towards replacing a product rather than repairing it because of expensive repairs and spare parts. It's time to do something about it! So our coalition has developed a proposal to address these concerns 📝

How many upgrades do we have left? Let’s end fast tech ORA data shows that by repairing >1,300 small kitchen items, community repairers have saved almost 34,000 kg of CO2e emissions in France alone! The race to upgrade bears a growing responsibility for the climate crisis but we're fighting back 🪛

A unique opportunity for our global community to come together! Fixfest 2025 will feature multiple sessions focusing on Right to Repair - what's going on in the EU, around the world, and what the future of the movement looks like ✊

The end of Windows 10 shouldn't mean the end of life for hundreds of millions of computers💻️😵⁠ Check out @therestartproject.org's guide for repair groups to support their local communities and save laptops from landfill 🪛 🔗 therestartproject.org/end-of-windows-10-toolkit-for-repair-groups

How many upgrades do we have left? Let’s end fast tech According to ORA’s data, by repairing over 1,200 vacuums, community repairers have saved over 22,000 kg of CO2e emissions in Belgium alone! Fast tech’s race to upgrade bears a growing responsibility for the climate crisis but we can fight back

💻🌱 #TheTechPeopleWant Summit is just around the corner (July 8–9). Today we are announcing the full programme, featuring 31 speakers from all around the world across 4 panels, 2 keynotes and 3 Spotlight Sessions.

“Repair is not a nostalgic nod to the past, but has a big role to play in a modern, sustainable facing, society” For Forbes, Nick Nuttall writes about the ecosystem of community repair and campaigners in the UK and EU who are fighting back against the throwaway economy.

Who else is still dizzy from last week? 😵 #ICYMI: @ec.europa.eu announced its intention to withdraw the #GreenClaimsDirective. ❌ no proper explanation ❌ no timeline The #EU desperately needs this law to ensure companies make reliable environmental claims. Read more ⤵️

🚨 Don’t kill the Green Claims Directive 🚨 Greenwashing is rampant in Europe 👉 over 75% of products carry green claims, and more than half are misleading 😵‍💫 ❗ The #GreenClaimsDirective was meant to fix this. Now it’s at risk of being scrapped before talks even conclude.

📱 New EU repair rules for smartphones and tablets come into force today - a step forward, but crucial barriers for consumers remain

Save the date for International Repair Day on 18th October 2025! 🌟⁠ ⁠ 🎉 Ready to get involved? Explore the Repair Day toolkit and upcoming webinar at repairday.org

How many upgrades do we have left? Let’s end fast tech. According to ORA’s data, by repairing over 2k laptops, community repairers have saved over 31,000 kg of CO2e emissions in the UK alone! Fast tech’s race to upgrade bears a growing responsibility for the climate crisis but we can fight back.

Just weeks before new rules for smartphones were set to take effect, we learned that the European Commission has proposed a “corrective legislative act” that would weaken your #R2R and effectively scrap the requirement for user-replaceable displays. Read more: repair.eu/news/screen-...

🗑 Unsold goods are too often destroyed by manufacturers before reaching consumers because disposing of them is often cheaper than storing, reselling, or reusing. It fuels overproduction, overconsumption and resource depletion and it's time to end it. Read our feedback: repair.eu/resources/fe...

The EU’s 5-year #Ecodesign (#ESPR) work plan is out 🥳 But excluding footwear, plastics, paints & chemicals risks more #microplastics in the ocean. Every 👞 product 🛞 counts 🎨. Postponing action today means more pollution tomorrow. 👀 Read more: seas-at-risk.org/press-releas...

It's encouraging to see the work on horizontal reparability requirements officially confirmed by the @ec.europa.eu It's high time that consumers get access to a broader array of repairable & durable products We're looking forward to engaging with the preparatory study: repair.eu/resources/fe...

Can #reuse and #repair strategies provide solutions for the increasing instability of supply chains and international commerce? We're convinced that extending the lifespan of products is the way to go.

2024 was challenging in many ways – but still a year full of important milestones and steps forward for ambitious environmental protection. Take a look back with our annual report, as we continue our collective journey towards #sustainability. ecostandard.org/publications...

We’ve reached ep 100 of the Restart Podcast! 🎉 To mark the occasion, we wanted to speak to a few repair pioneers - most of who somehow haven't appeared before! Ugo got back behind the mic to talk to Martine Postma, Kyle Wiens @ifixit.com, Cristina Ganapini @r2reurope.bsky.social, and Mathew Lubari

🙌 Our coalition members are in the Ecodesign Forum! The EU Commission selected experts to discuss product regulations under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation. Five R2R members were selected and participated in the first EF meeting. Check out our feedback: repair.eu/wp-content/u...

[1/2] If the entire population lived like the average EU citizen, we would need 2.8 planet Earths ‼️ 🗺️ But there is another way. A well-designed #CircularEconomy can move the market from an extractive economic model towards an approach that allows us to stay within the Earth’s carrying capacity.

We’re also campaigning for change in the EU! We’re a founding member of @r2reurope.bsky.social and have just been accepted as a member of the new EU’s Ecodesign Forum - which is huge!

🌍The @ec.europa.eu's new #CircularEconomyAct is a key opportunity to reconcile economic prosperity for all with the finite boundaries of our planet. ❌Only tinkering at the edges of waste policies won’t cut it. 👉Read our position: eeb.org/library/prev...

💚Europe can only be truly competitive when its economy is benefiting both people and the planet. 🤔Circular economy can help the EU achieving that goal. But are we on the right track? And what does it take to get there? 🙋Our take: meta.eeb.org/2025/02/20/p... #circulareconomyact #circulareconomy

🛠️ Right to repair: We helped bring the EU’s Right to Repair Directive to life to tackle e-waste. ecostandard.org/europe-is-ge...

When it comes to #electronics, there's one EU policy solution that could make them ALL more sustainable 🥁📢 horizontal ecodesign measures! Moving slowly from product to product isn't efficient when there's a faster and more effective way forward. Joint letter 👉 ecostandard.org/publications...

🔋 Having removable and replaceable batteries is a must for our products to last longer. The EU has published its guidelines for removability and replaceability under the Batteries Regulation. We took a closer look... 👀 🔗 Read more here: repair.eu/news/making-... #repair #righttorepair #batteries

Hey Bluesky! 🛠️ We are Right to Repair Europe, the coalition advocating for a universal right to repair our products in Europe, so they can last longer and we can reduce waste. 🌍 Want to know what we're up to? Check out our news and resources at repair.eu and join us! 🔗 #repair #righttorepair

Yes, we are among the best designers of 2023 according to the Guardian 😎 It's not that common! It doesn't happen to everybody! And it is a big deal! New years resolution: keep the ambition high for a universal right to repair!

Wake up babe, new Right to Repair Europe 2023 wrapped just dropped

📢 @financialtimes.com wrote about our push for broad Right to Repair rules in the EU and other European repair movements. Read the full article for free here: www.ft.com/content/70e5...

We hope that trilogue negotiators are able to keep the ambitions brought in the table by the EU Parliament and deliver an impactful right to repair. Also, the R2R coalition is not sure that memes are in Bluesky's meta-functioning, but we leave this little shareable meme for you.

Unsurprisingly, the Council's position on repair is weaker than the original Commission's proposal. The Council's text is clearly a huge step back from the EU Parliament version of the text, which we celebrated a few days ago.

Happy Buy Nothing New Day! Should you be hunting for presents or in need of something "new" today, please consider buying second-hand! It's cheaper and much much better for our planet.

It's official: EU Parliament votes for repair legislations! Now it's up to the Council of the EU to keep the ambitions high! You can read our full reaction in our blog at repair.eu/news/unlocking-consumer-freedom-eu-parliament-votes-yes-to-right-to-repair/ !

👻Unrepairable electronics are a Halloween-worth nightmare still today. 🕸️Mountains of discarded electronics, expensive repairs, software barriers: these are some of the horror characters that every day repairers fight against. 🔮This sinister cycle continues unless we reclaim our right to repair!

The Right to Repair Europe team is glad to share with you info on our daily fight for a universal right to repair, against all kind of anti-repair practice and monopoly, for an affordable, easy and inclusive that makes Repair for Everyone! Follow to stay up to date!