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The Circular Electronics Design Guide
Designing electronics for a circular economy is a challenge—but one worth embracing.
Working with many OEMs through iFixit’s Solutions team, I’ve seen firsthand what it takes to create a strong repair ecosystem—the innermost loop of a circular model. For example, we’ve seen repair-friendly, color-coded screws or pictograms on a product covered over with stickers, customer service teams dissuading users with anti-repair messaging that goes against the plan (or sometimes not being informed at all), and public statements against repair from leadership. While this list is by no means exhaustive, we find these principles to be foundational—a good starting place for developing messaging to support and enable user repair.
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