Donal Hickey: Got a junk drawer like this? Time to get repairing or recycling...

We all pay the price for broken and obsolete electronics

Increasing product lifetime and improving ‘circularity’ are essential steps towards reducing impacts from electronics.

It may be going against our ‘throwaway’ society's trends, but the EU is strongly urging us to repair used, or damaged, electrical goods rather than purchasing replacements.

We are buying more and more such goods, but their lifespan is not substantially increasing. And many are not properly recycled when we finish with them.