is the problem of electronic and waste. and david levitz, thanks for watching for more news. go to d, w dot com and follow us on social media. bye bye. for now, the do you know which of these 3 industries has the highest c o 2 emission rates? would you guess the concrete transforming business syllabus on to figure out what's the real new deal? just green blushing the watch. now. i'm going to place that big tech companies will draw the didn't exist. it's a sunday evening and this market in north debbie is

la still 1390000000 mobile phones, the solar globally at all 5000000000 mobiles estimated to be thrown away. but right here could be a solution for much of this waste. i'm in the north indian market and there's really nothing you can get to basically like this and what people are using, whatever they have it on them to fix what's broken. because changes in the way products are made is changing this market and others like it, without even full of the 5 or 6 of us, m o u k, the m o u. now when the, when the new to the bill and because people are choosing to buy new rather than repair e waste and they'll mix up the majority of our overall toxic waste and it's happening all over the world. so many people are now working to bring this route, them mindset back in the retain this ingenuity and the cultural 6. what's

true, but also keeping us like going to me. so i'm here in delhi, back to figure out how all of this is going to fails. and then my phone for 4 and a half years now, which is a relatively, very long time to on a smartphone. i'm going to challenge with my size and see how much longer i can make it last. but i've also been very careless, uncompleted, rewarding my display. if i look it up and it goes to 2000 refuse to buy a new phone on the same models. so i'm here to see whether it's worth getting into bed instead of a lot of i'm just not sure whether it's worth being a ton of them getting a new phone with a new buy cheap and the, the, the showroom quoted. $16000.00 repeats, which is more than half the price of the phone. so i'm not going to, i'm going to get a few more quotes from a different place. this is an informal and semi form, an electronic deposit. this is a grey area. some vendors may be authorized, the,

those are, those may not be registered and not all of them pay taxes. yes. because they told me they can offer the cheapest services by cutting deals over or under the table or find some look around or the other 7000 already a copy of god. we think what you've got indicates that maggie quite interesting that everybody has quoted me a different single, which means that of course doesn't stand there, then you have to have it and you have to find the best price. which does take a lot of time to think about india has a long history of repairing, over replacing most read, gone those ones, how to call the other cielo, who fix solid ease of state and families for many generations. but it gets monique, this tradesman specializes in only fixing the economic

mazda 1990 the 2000 and change those codes are completed with more money in their pockets and things getting cheaper. people started buying mall and somebody else happened. india went outside digits of every kind of payment is now done online from rick shows coconut brought to having a phone is now basically mandatory phone in the us for cheap and accessible that i'm more people with phones, then beds all mattresses or chairs electronic devices to became an outlier to the old immune debate culture, media because electronics companies don't allow for repair. gadgets have been accused of being designed for the dumb. it's called planned obsolescence companies have been taken to quote over it's, for example this here apple is prepaying to be up to $500000000.00 in the us and settlements in a case like using them of slowing down older iphones. the italian government find samsung 5000000 euros in a similar case, but found that updates slowed down devices. as a result of all this

e ways has drawn phenomenally in india, and many countries have had similar results and best stories of development in after lives. very little of this waste is formerly recycled. this is where electronics come in. this is the biggest electronics waste market in the country. truck loads of discarded electronics come here every day and i'm dumped onto local traders. these people separate them and sell the parts on the recyclers or other kinds of strap dealers. there's literally e waste everywhere. look at that. here traders break down the tech to recover anything of value the results of this kind of informal dumping. i mean of this by what's meant to be a storm drain, but there's no space for water to flow. we

saw a lot of people including and especially children, collecting anything of value. and this scavenging comes at a high price, the legs gagne and mobility of an e. we as has been known to cause skin conditions and the 1st instance. but it's also been linked to problems with the liver and development of the brain, including a newborns. it was very hard to film here. nobody really wanted to talk to me on camera. i met studies and have a research show of chemical pollution to ask what needs to happen to stop this. to work on the production site, autumn consumption site. it will have to make a lot of adjustments on the production site that can see that how do you design for that spec us? suppose they're going to design the product, which is more than letting nature, but that's what a be a. we'll just, we'll just finding a product because you cannot take you to the next level. the 2nd thing is about

loading consumption is also because if we design products, but if it last with me for a long time, i am not likely to desponding. so my risk generation becomes reduced. tow thing is about we need to formalize or pass, we need to formalize refurbishments and by law also them for me to is only that. how do we encourage this? i think that we have not been able to break to this 3rd thing is something the government is starting to work on. it launched a $14.20 to ensure that citizens have the right to repair around 50 companies of signing up sofa on people. these include manufacturers of farm equipment, consumers, you roubles, and also one bios as well as that i, tony. i met the man in charge druid, commerce thing, the highest sucking administrative office, the ministry of consumer affairs, who went over the main points in case the product required slip is a routine maintenance. it shouldn't be senses,

it should be easily accessible. and it should be noted li, available in the system of the consumer. so we put all that together and we are doing that i to repair a framework. most specifically, this would include access to information on how to repair, providing cheap and original step ups to consume of i'm fluid bodies. and it also includes more specific codes to action like that. all charges must be u. s. b c. by june 2025. you don't want to become an impediment in the ease of doing business also, you know, it's a, it's a very tricky thing. so i'm the one hand you want more business name, the you want the economy to grow, you want more of the i. so you want to make things simple and streamlined, but you also have to protect the consumer, protect the planet, and these things can be competing. right now there's one main problem. this framework is bought entry. it hasn't been able to, a past has been environment,

and that is, it can be a long process. this is on with donia or profess of law at alliance university in manuel, who has looked into with india as ad with the right to repair. but it's possible to the bottom and also one buffet, right as low as possible because the number that we are talking about also the interest of and um, lets say produce a groups that are quite powerful in the india they was the case. it was decided to um, in the mean to 2000 and change the government case. in this case, a lawyer named shed canada at the 14 con manufacturer as the quotes which only allowed for repairs and exclusive repair shops. he argued that these manufactures monopolize the spare parts market and we'll be using this dominance sometimes mocking up the price of spare pods. 5000 percent. the manufacturer was brought back and the arguments was that what would be the no. so let's say we think give such an

tools because you mostly for allow me more people to repair those costs or those consumer goods we go, it's going to influence our direct to appropriate your rights. in that case, the court decided against them mandating that they allow consumers to go wherever they choose, based on what they can access and afford the problem. that if you have, it has more kids with intellectual property. i noticed, but do you mean discounts investments into that industry, for example, the funds that produce those electronic goods maybe does this, and we have reduce incentives to enter the market, the me of the legal market because it will say well, but then when we are using data, not just for university goes out in different budget, right, does not predicted because of the right to the fact that has already been pushed back even against a simple us b c, charging room. i believe india has asked for an exemption or a delay seeing it, but otherwise struggled to meet production targets. but there are economic

arguments for repairs. at the moment, most of the material that goes into making electronics remains on accounting for. these include important resources like lithium, which we will need a lot more off in the future. so these are of huge national value. many countries i'm pushing ahead on this. in early 2024. the european parliament took the leap forward and voted strongly in favor of strengthening the right to repair. in all 27 countries of the summer, even hanging on her bed vouchers paid for by national group of funds from to set up . what might become a norm across many products, a repair ability index, much like the one that shows you the energy efficiency of say, a refrigerator to give the consumer more agency. the u. s. has not fall behind them . such decisions would have impacts some countries like india and beyond the some of the products, standard global supply chains. so they manufactured for was so the word has to be

done. the same page is a difficult task to, to. but then we also engage with you and they are doing from a specific date, they're making expenditures. so reset, okay. uh you last 6 months is estimated to be a $20000000000.00 domestic market for repair and a $5000000.00 domestic market for refurbishment in india. so start to upset, jumping in by setting up repair and refurbishment units. cdb i am buying the and gadget wouldn't know. i know examples board with huge foreign investments have been written, been proposition for the consumer, for the guy who's looking at and gets an employment and the company expensive and the 12th because we want to get some benefits because it's cheaper and accessible. and the guys being able to make a living. but this all still exists and pockets in very early stages. the big challenges, the hundreds of thousands of people whose livelihood depends on for fat, formalizing such a massive, informal economy, developing skills, registering,

and ensuring the paid tax is not going to be an easy task. even if the government says the intention is that it's also going to be a challenge to keep accounts of all these resources. but that is the whole thing. i've decided not to change the display of my phone because it's about a 3rd of the costs of buying the new phone itself, which is just too expensive, especially considering. i don't have a guarantee that the new display will last for long enough time to make the investment was that. so i think i'm just going to wait for my phone to dies and buy a new one. but if and when that i to the bed does come into play, my decision might be quite different. developing countries like india have a unique opportunity to still tap into that cultures of renewals and repair and retain them for most sustainable and equitable future. the life of the affairs of good discussion around the world that is likely to have huge implications, that's really all take on it and also get to come back more videos like this every friday on

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