Barriers, enablers and market governance: A review of the policy landscape for repair of consumer electronics in the EU and the U.S.

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dc.contributor.authorSvensson-Hoglund, Sahraen
dc.contributor.authorRichter, Jessika Luthen
dc.contributor.authorMaitre-Ekern, Eleonoreen
dc.contributor.authorRussell, Jennifer D.en
dc.contributor.authorPihlajarinne, Tainaen
dc.contributor.authorDalhammar, Carlen
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Biomaterialsen
dc.date.accessioned2021-08-02T13:14:52Zen
dc.date.available2021-08-02T13:14:52Zen
dc.date.issued2021-03-15en
dc.description.abstractMany strategies have been proposed to support the transition to a Circular Economy (CE). In most cases, circular design and product life-extension practices specify repair as an essential element. In both the EU and the U.S., policymakers are attempting to increase the amount of repairs made, through the introduction of recent EU Ecodesign regulation changes and proposed US Right to Repair legislation. This review explores the current policy landscape for repair services by first outlining legal and market barriers to stakeholder participation in repair activities, and which stakeholders are affected. The review reveals a wide range of fundamental obstacles to both supply and demand of repair, including Intellectual Property, Consumer, Contract, Tax and Chemical laws, along with issues of design, consumer perceptions and markets. Subsequently, the current and proposed policy solutions to address barriers and increase repair activities are reviewed. A comparative assessment of the EU and the U.S. is followed by a discussion on the current repair market governance structure, which is found to be primarily centralized (i.e. repair services concentrated with manufacturers), with possible implications for upscaling repair. New policy proposals challenge this governance. Introducing the concept of a Repair Society Framework as a market transformation tool, we comprehensively discuss the current state of repair and provide an outlook for research and policy in this area. (C) 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.en
dc.description.notesSahra Svensson-Hoglund, Jessika Luth Richter, Jennifer Russell and Carl Dalhammar were funded by Swedish FORMAS Forskarrad, through the project `Creating a repair society to advance the Circular Economy e policies, networks and people (CREACE)' (grant no. 2019-02237). Eleonore Maitre-Ekern was funded by the Research Council of Norway (Norges forskningsrad) through the project `Preventing Environmental Effects of Products through Producer Responsibility'.en
dc.description.sponsorshipSwedish FORMAS Forskarrad, through the project `Creating a repair society to advance the Circular Economy e policies, networks and people (CREACE)' [2019-02237]; Research Council of Norway (Norges forskningsrad) through the project `Preventing Environmental Effects of Products through Producer Responsibility'Research Council of Norwayen
dc.description.versionPublished versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.125488en
dc.identifier.eissn1879-1786en
dc.identifier.issn0959-6526en
dc.identifier.other125488en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/104470en
dc.identifier.volume288en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectRepairen
dc.subjectElectrical and electronic equipmenten
dc.subjectCircular economyen
dc.subjectMarket governanceen
dc.subjectEcodesignen
dc.subjectRepair societyen
dc.titleBarriers, enablers and market governance: A review of the policy landscape for repair of consumer electronics in the EU and the U.S.en
dc.title.serialJournal of Cleaner Productionen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
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