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Ontario Zero Waste Coalition Ontario Zero Waste Colaition advocates for the circular economy that manages resources so there is no waste and we advocate against incineration.

10/21/2026
10/08/2026

What do you think about this?

Quebec's new legal warranty is officially in effect, and it could mean free repairs when certain appliances and devices break — even years after you buy them.

For products purchased on or after October 5, consumers can demand the retailer or manufacturer fix defective appliances such as air conditioners, heat pumps, refrigerators or stoves if they are less than 6 years old.

Washers, dryers and dishwashers are covered for 5 years; TVs are covered for 4; and computers, smartphones and tablets for 3.

But several manufacturers have already told Quebec retailers they plan to raise prices on affected products because of the new requirements.

More details in the comments. 👇

📸: Jenny Kane | AP

08/06/2026

As of July 31, it's the law across the EU: if a company sold you a phone, a fridge, or a washing machine, it has to help you repair it, warranty long dead or not, at a price that isn't rigged to make you give up and buy new.

The woman who spent a decade forcing it into law is named Cristina Ganapini.

Here's the scam she killed.

It's a piece of software called part-pairing. You buy a genuine replacement battery, install it correctly, and the device still won't run, because a chip inside checks whether the manufacturer "authorized" that exact part, and bricks it if not.

There's no safety reason for this. None. It exists for one purpose: to make sure the only person allowed to fix what you own is the person who sold it to you.

The EU outlawed it. Companies now have to sell you the spare parts, hand over the repair manuals, and add a year to your guarantee when you choose to repair instead of replace.

America has no such law, not for phones, not for game consoles, not for the ventilators hospitals were locked out of fixing during a pandemic. The lock stays glued to the back of nearly everything you buy, and when it does its job, you don't repair. You replace. Again, and again, and again.

And that endless replacing is what's quietly cooking the planet. Most of a phone's carbon footprint is spent before you ever switch it on, the mining, the rare metals, the assembly line.

Keep Europe's phones alive one extra year and you'd cut emissions like pulling a million cars off the road. "We can't recycle our way out of this," Ganapini says, and a repaired phone is one that never had to be built just to be thrown away.

So that's what changed on July 31 in the EU. The next time your phone dies a year after the warranty does, remember that's not bad luck, it's a business model.

Europe just made that model illegal. America still calls it the free market.

11/30/2025

This one spells it out in a way that’s hard to ignore. One path leads straight to a pile of waste, the other gives us a chance to break the cycle.

Recycling helps, sure — but it’s the circular approach that keeps the earth from drowning in trash. Repair, reuse, return. Simple ideas with huge impact.

If we want a future that isn’t built on overflowing landfills, this is the shift we need. Not someday — today. 🔄🌿

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