Earth Overshoot Day — when humanity has consumed more resources than the Earth’s capacity to regenerate them — arrives earlier and earlier every year. That’s because so many products we consume are short-lived, disposable, inefficient, toxic, or unrepairable — with consumers often not offered viable alternatives. Until now, EU measures on sustainable product design focused […]

From 20 June 2025, consumers will be able to benefit from smartphones and tablets that are both longer-lasting and more easily repairable thanks to new rules. It will also be much easier to choose more durable phones, thanks to a new energy label with repairability and reliability scores. Where do these rules come from? In […]

Earth Overshoot Day — when humanity has consumed more resources than the Earth’s capacity to regenerate them — arrives earlier and earlier every year. That’s largely because so many products we consume are short-lived, disposable, inefficient, toxic, or unrepairable. This reality is a choice we have collectively made, not an inevitability. Choosing instead to produce […]

Sometimes known as ‘power adaptors’ or ‘power packs’, External Power Supplies (EPS) power or recharge electronic and electric devices. Often sold with the devices they power, we all have many such products in our homes and workplaces. In 2020, EPS consumed 11.6 TWh of electricity—enough to cover the energy needs of 3 million EU households. […]

The imaging equipment industry, which includes printers and cartridges, is an environmentally impactful sector that generates over 600,000 tonnes of e-waste every year. It needs strong regulations to ban practices that harm the environment and consumers, such as wasteful design and anti-repair practices. At the end of February 2024, the European Commission’s research body, the […]