Opinion If You Want to Feel Better About E-Waste, You Have to Sell Stuff People often ask me how to recycle their old gadgets. “He’ll know what to do with this Bluetooth speaker I’ve had in my closet for five years,” they think, “he… February 5, 2021 by Kevin Purdy
Video Design, Activism, and Fixing the World: Three Authors Talk with iFixit “Repair” is not one thing. It’s not just one mission, one organization, or even one law. Repair is the idea that things that once worked should work again, that things… December 9, 2020 by Kevin Purdy
Right to Repair Maybe Apple Isn’t as Green as It Claims – Bloomberg Opinion October 19, 2020 by Kevin Purdy
E-Waste Google Adds Two Lines, Makes a Huge E-Waste Difference It was just two lines of text in an obscure support document. But by adding them earlier this week, Google took a big step toward longer-lasting devices, fighting e-waste, and… October 16, 2020 by Kevin Purdy
Skills How to Survive Without an IT Department We’ve all had to learn a lot of new skills lately. Some of us have become unpaid IT consultants, with multiple (sometimes fussy) clients, a hodgepodge of devices and systems,… October 8, 2020 by Sam Goldheart - iFixit
E-Waste The Newest, Dumbest E-Waste Is Pee-Waste It is a truth universally acknowledged—by manufacturers—that an analog consumer product must be in want of electronics. Yes, even if you pee on that product. Pregnancy tests are dead simple.… September 10, 2020 by Sam Goldheart - iFixit
Repair Stories Please Stop Throwing Out Your Electric Razor and Toothbrushes. Please. How far will you go to keep a tiny lithium-ion battery from landing up in a landfill, or starting a fire? For me, it was eight Torx screws and 10… July 21, 2020 by Kevin Purdy
E-Waste Humans Left Behind a Record Amount of E-Waste in 2019 – The Verge July 6, 2020 by Kevin Purdy
E-Waste Apple might not include a charger with the iPhone 12. Good – The Verge June 30, 2020 by Kevin Purdy
E-Waste The Verge – Sonos is getting rid of the controversial Recycle Mode that needlessly bricked its older devices March 5, 2020 by Kevin Purdy