For more than 15 years, we’ve scored products to help people understand what makes them repairable. But we’re a small team, and there are lots of products in the world; we’ve come to accept that we can’t score them all.
Several jurisdictions have been working on repairability scoring efforts: France kicked things off in 2021, and the Joint Research Commission followed. This month, repairability scores for smartphones have been required at point of sale for a full year in Europe.
Just last month, the New York legislature passed the first repairability labeling law in the US and awaits gubernatorial action. But there’s not yet a standard that describes how to create scorecards for the US context. We’re hoping to change that.
That’s why we’re teaming up with a standard development organization, the National Sanitation Foundation, to develop a voluntary US repairability scoring standard, distinct from iFixit’s existing scores. Our three-phase approach:
Phase 1: We will adapt the EU/JRC smartphone methodology for the US context.
