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| Official Website = https://www.cta.tech/

| Logo = Ctalogo.svg

}}The '''Consumer Technology Association (CTA)''' is a standard and [[wikipedia:Trade_organization|trade organization]].<!--To save you guys the trouble, here's every relevant video regarding CTA.

}}The '''Consumer Technology Association (CTA)''' is a standard and [[wikipedia:Trade_organization|trade organization]]. Their [https://www.cta.tech/ mission statement] is "to help innovators of all sizes grow their business." They are active lobbyists for a wide [https://www.cta.tech/Advocacy variety of issues] but often do this by representing large tech companies in legal battles against the right to repair. While the American consumer may have various feelings about their trade policy, immigration, or patent reform stances, all of us are harmed by their consistent defense of restrictive licensing and built-in blocks for independent repair.<!--To save you guys the trouble, here's every relevant video regarding CTA.

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== Lobbying ==

== Testifying ==

==== Right to Repair in Maine (LD1977 "An Act To Ensure a Consumer's Right To Repair Certain Electronic Products" ) ====

The CTA's VP of Environmental Affairs and Industry Sustainability testified that "[the] issue that's been raised about e-waste and concern about how not passing legislation like this [] might increase e-waste, I would remind the committee that Mine has a robust [https://www.maine.gov/dep/waste/ewaste/index.html e-waste law and program in place]... ...we are not looking at a situation where e-waste in Maine [is] going into landfills." While this may be strictly true of Maine landfills, e-waste recycling faces serious issues perpetuated by many of the same industry practices which make repair difficult. "Smartphones are becoming lighter and slimmer, and <u>their batteries are no longer removable</u>, making recycling much more difficult and labour-intensive. Manual sorting requires workers to be constantly exposed to toxic substances, albeit at a low level, over a long period, while these <u>difficult-to-recycle electronic devices require facilities to constantly upgrade their machines to keep up with the changing technology</u>, lowering the incentive for businesses to recycle e-waste that is already difficult to disassemble.[https://earth.org/what-is-e-waste-recycling/ "] Additionally, outsourcing of e-waste recycling represents an environmental health disaster to less developed countries, leading to China banning the import of many categories of waste[[wikipedia:Operation_National_Sword|.]] Right to Repair stands to greatly reduce the generation of e-waste and make it's recycling much more cost effective, at the expense of reducing the number of new devices purchased as replacements. Reduce, then Reuse (repair or salvage parts) and then Recycle.

More than a year after this testimony and the allegation that investments and lobbying for e-waste recycling more than makes up for anti-repair practices, the Maine Monitor published [https://themainemonitor.org/there-are-more-devices-in-mainers-lives-than-ever-no-one-knows-where-they-end-up/ this report]. To quote the article, "Mainers are generating more electronic waste than ever. And no one knows what percentage of that waste is sent for recycling." He also includes statistics for sold phones, trade-ins, and phones given to friends or relatives to give a false view that only 2% of phones are thrown into the trash when looking at phones at end of life.

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 | Official Website = https://www.cta.tech/
 | Logo = Ctalogo.svg
-}}The '''Consumer Technology Association (CTA)''' is a standard and [[wikipedia:Trade_organization|trade organization]].<!--To save you guys the trouble, here's every relevant video regarding CTA.
+}}The '''Consumer Technology Association (CTA)''' is a standard and [[wikipedia:Trade_organization|trade organization]]. Their [https://www.cta.tech/ mission statement] is "to help innovators of all sizes grow their business." They are active lobbyists for a wide [https://www.cta.tech/Advocacy variety of issues] but often do this by representing large tech companies in legal battles against the right to repair. While the American consumer may have various feelings about their trade policy, immigration, or patent reform stances, all of us are harmed by their consistent defense of restrictive licensing and built-in blocks for independent repair.<!--To save you guys the trouble, here's every relevant video regarding CTA.
 Not directly related according to video directory, but likely important for context:
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 Make sure to properly cite this information. -->
+== Lobbying ==
+== Testifying ==
+==== Right to Repair in Maine (LD1977 "An Act To Ensure a Consumer's Right To Repair Certain Electronic Products" ) ====
+The CTA's VP of Environmental Affairs and Industry Sustainability testified that "[the] issue that's been raised about e-waste and concern about how not passing legislation like this [] might increase e-waste, I would remind the committee that Mine has a robust [https://www.maine.gov/dep/waste/ewaste/index.html e-waste law and program in place]... ...we are not looking at a situation where e-waste in Maine [is] going into landfills." While this may be strictly true of Maine landfills, e-waste recycling faces serious issues perpetuated by many of the same industry practices which make repair difficult. "Smartphones are becoming lighter and slimmer, and <u>their batteries are no longer removable</u>, making recycling much more difficult and labour-intensive. Manual sorting requires workers to be constantly exposed to toxic substances, albeit at a low level, over a long period, while these <u>difficult-to-recycle electronic devices require facilities to constantly upgrade their machines to keep up with the changing technology</u>, lowering the incentive for businesses to recycle e-waste that is already difficult to disassemble.[https://earth.org/what-is-e-waste-recycling/ "] Additionally, outsourcing of e-waste recycling represents an environmental health disaster to less developed countries, leading to China banning the import of many categories of waste[[wikipedia:Operation_National_Sword|.]] Right to Repair stands to greatly reduce the generation of e-waste and make it's recycling much more cost effective, at the expense of reducing the number of new devices purchased as replacements. Reduce, then Reuse (repair or salvage parts) and then Recycle.
+More than a year after this testimony and the allegation that investments and lobbying for e-waste recycling more than makes up for anti-repair practices, the Maine Monitor published [https://themainemonitor.org/there-are-more-devices-in-mainers-lives-than-ever-no-one-knows-where-they-end-up/ this report]. To quote the article, "Mainers are generating more electronic waste than ever. And no one knows what percentage of that waste is sent for recycling." He also includes statistics for sold phones, trade-ins, and phones given to friends or relatives to give a false view that only 2% of phones are thrown into the trash when looking at phones at end of life.