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California's Right to Repair Act becomes law

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Californians will be able to access information, manuals and parts that they couldn't get their hands on before. It will go into effect July 2024.

"All the obstacles we have, the road blocks stopping us from doing this or that. The materials we don't have. We're forced to reverse engineer things to figure it out ourselves," said Tony Heupel, owner of iTech iPhone & Macbook Repair."I can't get my hands on this chip ever. The only way I can get it is to purchase another and then harvest or salvage it off of this to repurpose it," he said.

"By giving people what they need to repair instead of replace devices we can reduce all of the waste ending up in our landfills," said Jenn Engstrom, state director of CALPIRG."It makes me believe we can do things for a better future," said Tony Ngo.

 

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