We are excited to welcome a new member to the ECOS Network: Repairably is a Slovak non-profit organisation dedicated to creating conditions for the uptake of design, production and use of repairable products.
We decided to celebrate World Standards Day 2019 by asking our team a few questions! What do we do? What is a standard? And why are they so important? Watch our short video and find out!
With only 35% of electronic waste in the EU being collected and treated properly, the detrimental effects of our throwaway culture are ever more apparent - and we have had enough. Studies have shown that a great majority of EU consumers would rather repair their goods than buy new ones. The time is right to ensure that products placed on the EU market are designed to be durable and can be repaired when broken.
Do you #knowYourheater? Of course you don’t, how could you when it doesn’t even have an energy label?
ECOS Policy Director Christoforos Spiliotopoulos took webinar participants on a journey through the standardisation system and explained ECOS role in promoting and defending environmental interests in standardisation. The recording of the webinar is now available.
On September 24, in Brussels, DG Research and Innovation (European Commission) organised a meeting session on "The Future of Plastics". ECOS Head of Circular Economy Policy, Doreen Fedrigo was invited to speak about the impact of plastics on humans and the environment.
Newly adopted EU laws will make several products easier to repair and more energy efficient, saving people money as well as reducing pollution, NGOs in the Coolproducts campaign said.
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