Business woman holding a model wind turbine with a repaired circuit board/PCB on the desk next to soldering iron and some integrated circuit chips. A metaphor for how electronics repair benefits renewable energy sustainability.

How Electronics Repair Will Save the Renewable Energy Transition from an Environmental and Economic Disaster

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One often overlooked yet crucial aspect of this transition is the role of electronic repair and maintenance in ensuring long-term efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and reduced waste. Without adequate planning and support for electronic sustainability, this energy transformation could lead to increased waste, supply chain disruptions, and rising costs, undermining the benefits and leading to an environmental and economic disaster!

Alstom collaboration with Repair, Don’t Waste goes from strength to strength.

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Global rail operator Alstom have been fans of the Repair, Don’t Waste mindset since their first investment in specialist test and troubleshooting technology in 2015, equipping their Chilean site with the in-house capabilities to repair their own faulty circuit boards. In 2023, Alstom have 11 locations across 3 continents that are Repair, Don’t Waste members and expect this number to increase significantly as net-zero target dates grow ever closer. The close relationship between Repair, Don’t Waste and Alstom is crucial to their long-term sustainability plans – and here’s why.

Processed Semiconductor Wafer

Reducing Waste & Boosting Efficiency: How the Semiconductor Industry is Embracing Repair to Drive the Future of Sustainability

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Reducing Waste & Boosting Efficiency: How the Semiconductor Industry is Embracing Repair to Drive the Future of Sustainability The semiconductor manufacturing industry is vast, complex, dynamic, and on the very edge of technological innovation. It is the facilitator of our modern digital world, from smartphones to MRI machines, cookers to space shuttles, everything these days…

How Repair, Don’t Waste can boost your organisations’ ESG reputation.

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A subset of sustainability initiatives, the ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) framework is booming in popularity around the globe – and can be the difference between a company surviving or thriving. For many ESG was originally a distant dream, but with the realities of climate change becoming frighteningly apparent, compounded by the COVID-19 Pandemic, these indicators are now a very real destination to ensure the continuation and improvement of business as we know it. But what is ESG, and how can embracing a Repair, Don’t Waste mindset benefit sustainable growth in industry?

Repair, Don’t Waste features on Interesting Engineering Podcast

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Our movement recently had the opportunity to share our ethos with the world via Interesting Engineering’s exciting new podcast, Lexicon. By delving into the issues of E-Waste and the fight to repair industrial electronics, ABI’s International Sales Manager Willian Santos explained why time is up for the break-and-replace mentality, and how the world needs to change to usher in a new era of sustainability in industry.