is coming up next planet, a looks at how india wants to fix the growing problem of electronic waste. i'm terry martin for me and all of us here at dw, thanks for watching the little guys. this is the 77 percent. the platform for the sweet issues and share idea you know, on this time i'm not afraid to pass and then it keeps popping. young people clearly have the solution, the future of the 77 percent every weekend on dw, i'm in a place that big tech companies will drive the didn't exist. it's a sunday evening and this market in north debbie is

not still 1390000000 mobile phones, the sol 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 m o u, that one. 0 yeah, it's up to you to the table. 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, ban mindset back in the retain this ingenuity and the culture of 6 thing was

thrilled, but also keeping isn't going to me. so i'm here, i'm deli veteran, back to figure out how all of this is going to fails. i've done my phone for 4 and a half years now, which is a relatively, very long time to own a smartphone. i'm going to challenge with my so i'll just see how much longer i can make it last. but i've also been very careless, uncompleted with my display as i looked it up and it costs 30000 refuse to buy a new phone on the same models. so anyhow, to see what those, what 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 informant and semi form, an electronic deposit. this is a gray area, some vendors may be authorized, the,

those are, those may not be registered. not all of them pay taxes yet because they do, i mean they can offer the cheapest services by cutting deals over or under the table. i'll find some look around or the other models that 7000 already a copy of my love god, we think what you've got in to get that up in may i be quite interesting that everybody has quoted me a different single which means that of course doesn't stand out and you have to have it, then 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 street corners, ones how to call the other cielo, who fix solid ease of state and families for many generations. but it gets more nice. this tradesman specializes in only fixing the economic of the 1990. the 2000 and change this codes are completed with more money

in that pocket. some things getting cheaper. people started buying mall and something else happened. india went outside digits of every kind of payment is now done online from rick shows to coconut, brought to having a phone is now basically mandatory phones and in the us for cheap and accessible that are more people with phones, then beds, all mattresses or chairs electronic devices to became an outlier to the old indian japan 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 old 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 waste has drawn phenomenally in india, and many countries have had similar results from the stories of development and actually lives very little of this with just formerly recycling. this is where electronics come in. this is the biggest electronics waste from off in the country truck loads of discarded electronics come here every day. and i'll jump on to local traders. these people separate them and sell 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 lives, cadmium, mobility and e. we as has been known to cause skin conditions in 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 fill up here and nobody really wanted to talk to me on camera. i met se and ha, 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 mardell, letting nature. but that's what a be a. we'll just, we'll just starting a product because you cannot take you to the next level. the 2nd thing is about

lowering 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, reduces. the 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 get 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, rubles, and also one bios as well as electronics. i meant the man in charge royd commerce thing, the highest chunky 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 and says,

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 agreed 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 called so action like that all charges must be u. s. b c. by june 2025. it ought to become an impediment in the ease of doing business also, you know, it's a, it's a very tricky thing. so on the one hand, you want more business name, the you want 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 as board entry. it hasn't been able to past as

a bill environment and that this is going to be a long process. this is on with donia or profess of law at alliance university in manuel, who has looked into with india's ad with the right to repair. but it's possible to the bottom and also one buffet, right? you're supposed to go as possible because remember that we are talking about also the interest of bob and um, let's say produce a groups that are quite powerful in the india they was the case, it was decided to um, in the mean to 2010 the government case, in this case, a lawyer name should cut the 14 car manufacturers to quote, which only allowed for repairs and exclusive repair shops. he argued that these manufactures monopolized the spare parts market and we'll be using this dominance sometimes mocking up the price of spare pods. 5000 percent. the manufacturer was flooded back and the arguments was that what would be no. slicks, a people we think do such and tunes because you mostly for allow me more people to

repair those costs or those consumer goods we go to, it's going to infringe on intellectual property 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, if you have markets with intellectual property, i noticed, but do you mean discounts investments into that industry, for example, the funds that produce those electronic goods. maybe this, this may have reduced incentives to enter the market, any of the legal market because it will say, well, but then when we are using based on just the universe. because all the different budgets rex is not predicted because of the vegetables that there has already been pushed back even against the simple u. s. b c charging rule. i believe india has asked for an exemption or a de leasing or 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 a leap forward and voted strongly in favor of strengthening the right to repair. in all $27.00 countries of the summer, even hanging, a group of vouchers paid for by national group of funds from so 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 manufacturer for was so the word has to

become the same page, this difficult task, the to but then we also engage with you. and they are doing from a specific date. they're making your brand entry. 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 cdp. i am buying low and gadget wouldn't noise the examples bought with huge foreign investments, the vin, the vin proposition for the consumer, for the guy who's looking at and gets an employment and the company expensive. and it was because we want to get some benefit because it's cheaper and accessible. and the guys being able to make a living. but this all still exist in pockets, in very early stages. the big challenges, the hundreds of thousands of people whose livelihood depends on for fact, formalizing such a mass of 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 account 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 worth it. 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 culture of renewals and repair and retain them for most sustainable and equitable future. the lights it up as a good discussion around the was that is likely to have huge implications. that's really all take on it. and you also get to come back more videos like this. every friday. the

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