Comment: Legislation requiring manufacturers to maintain support for their products and make it easier to repair them will reduce their environmental impact, but doesn't go far enough

Abstract

THE UK GOVERNMENT'S recent 'right to repair' law may be a step in the right direction for consumers and for the environment, but should the legislation have been wider reaching in order to further incentivise the transition to circularity and servitisation? To require manufacturers to become providers not only of products, but of outcomes, experiences and ongoing services too?