Changes from R6 to R6new
Original version: | R6 |
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Status: | Modified |
Submitted: | 04/28/2022, 19:02 |
New version: | R6new |
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Status: | Submitted |
Submitted: | 06/24/2022, 14:32 |
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StopBan private deep-sea mining research projects and those for economic purposes, and only fund public deep-seaminingscience research projects, such as those by academia and international institutions, that look into sustainable methods and contribute to our understanding of deep-sea ecosystems, in order to form a scientific consensus that deep sea mining can be done sustainably.
Increase waste recycling rates to 80% to recover raw materials and facilitate recycling across Member States, by giving Member States with the capacity to mass-recycle the possibility to buy disposed material from other Member States. Special attention is given to the recycling of e-waste, thus precious minerals and metals used for the production of technology in order to phase-out mining. To increase and improve waste recycling, European legislation should require producers to design products so that they can be easily recycled, for example by not
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alleviate the pressure on our environment, and to reduce the need for underwater mining,
products withartificial lifetime limitationshave to, including negligent or avoidable obsolescence, must beentirelybanned across Europe. To stimulate the production and purchase of sustainable products, the lifespan of consumer technologies has to be included on its packaging.
- Enabling a local and decentralized repair industry on national and European level, by providing financial and educational incentives to create local repair shops that can perform repairs on the widest range of goods possible at the lowest prices possible.
- Ban the design of products that can exclusively be repaired by the manufacturers of the product.
- The right to repair must be enshrined in European law. All consumer technologies should be able to be repaired by consumers themselves when needed. This includes creating legislation that sets minimum design requirements to ensure easy disassembly and replacement of key components. Similarly, producing products that are difficult or impossible to be repaired is a burden for consumers and the environment as it leads to unnecessary excess demand.