Your smartphone has a dirty secret, and no, not how much time you spend to play a crushing candy. This is a victim who needs a climate to produce more than 1 billion such devices every year. Keeping our cell phone runs longer, by repairing it instead of throwing it away, will reduce carbon emissions that warm the planet and save hundreds of dollar consumers. The companies that make our smartphones, however, do everything they can to make it almost impossible, keep the profits high, and force the independent smartphone replacement parts shop for small mom-and-pop out of the business. A bill that I sponsor with Senator Neil Breslin, D-Delmar, can really help change it.

Through mining, processing rare metals, and manufacturing of intensive energy semiconductors, your cellphone produces around 120 pounds of carbon emissions. According to the new report, by the Research Group of U.S. Even worse, 85 percent of electronic waste in the United States has never been recycled. So why don't we continue to use our custom cell phone case longer? Because the company that makes our cellphones do everything they can stop us from maintaining it. Apple and Samsung, the two biggest smartphone manufacturers, refused to sell a replacement battery directly to consumers. Imagine anger if Ford sells a car that only lasts during their original battery or tire set. The deliberate policy of the planned outdated is contributing to the climate crisis and it's time for change.

Last year, the Federal Trade Commission released an attractive bipartisan report that confirmed that the technology company deliberately made it difficult and expensive to repair our devices, making customers buy new ones -where to fix the old one. The FTC report confirms clearly, that "is given a choice between low -cost repair and buying new mobile phones, many consumers will choose low cost improvements," and not only for glass phone screen protector smartphones, but for computers, game consoles, laptops, and more. After the FTC report was issued, Apple announced that it would begin to release some information and spare parts needed for improvement to independent workshops. Apart from this news, producers still make it difficult to repair devices and equipment, including: claiming improvements are impossible or too expensive: without fair competition from independent workshops, as faced by car dealers in the car repair market, producers can mobilize monopoly such as monopoly Like monopoly such as monopoly of power monopoly to limit the level of improvement and increase costs. Apple repair services, for example, may not recover your data from water damaged iPhone, or charge so much for repairs that are more economical to buy new devices.

Limiting access to improvement information: When a good repair document is free and easily available, consumers can fix their old smartphones or bring them to the garage rather than buying a new one. Producers have this information, but decreased to divide it with their customers and independent workshops. The right advocate to improve predicts the growth of 400 percent of the surprise work in the improvement business that is currently being suppressed by products that are monopolized for lg replacement parts repairs. Schools can start teaching Tinkers today to become future innovators. Limiting access to substitute parts: producers also frustrate improvements by refusing to offer original substitute parts to customers or repair workshops, as well as by limiting their suppliers from selling to others. Without access to original substitute parts, repairs must rely on third party components or the parts they start. Limiting access to the required software: Some producers require the use of special software devices to diagnose problems or program new spare parts to work with devices. But this was not shared with an independent workshop. This can mean that even cellphones that are repaired with original parts will not function as expected. Simply change the screen on your iPhone, for example, with a new screen from an identical iPhone, it may not function correctly unless the phone is checked by Apple's special software.

However, like most devices, the obstacles to be repaired can be improved. In New York, Fair Repair Laws I require producers to provide the same improvement information, substitute parts, and hardware they already have for smartphone owners and independent workshops. This will make our smartphone run longer, reducing the impact of electronic waste climate, skilled work of fuel and the growth of small businesses and saves the average of the New York $400 family every year that they issue for new devices and the price of exorbitant industry improvement. New York can lead the way to improve this year, and if yes, our wallet, small business, and our environment will definitely benefit.