As you might expect, the compact construction means this is not a particularly repairable device.

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"The chair not only had to be repairable, but we wanted it robust, " he says.

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Participants in that treaty tried to finalize e-waste guidelines, but they were not adopted because some developed countries and the electronics industry would not agree without adding loopholes to allow repairable electronic waste to be exempted, said advocacy group IPEN, a global network of more than 700 public interest non-governmental organizations.

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