{"id":789,"date":"2021-03-10T08:50:14","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T07:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/10\/tough-new-rules-aim-to-make-electrical-goods-last-longer\/"},"modified":"2021-03-10T08:50:14","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T07:50:14","slug":"tough-new-rules-aim-to-make-electrical-goods-last-longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/10\/tough-new-rules-aim-to-make-electrical-goods-last-longer\/","title":{"rendered":"Tough new rules aim to make electrical goods last longer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government to force firms to make spare parts available and create products that are cheaper to run<\/p>\n<p>Tougher rules are being introduced to make appliances such as fridges, washing machines and TVs cheaper to run and last longer, the government has said.<\/p>\n<p>New legislation aims to tackle \u201cpremature obsolescence\u201d in electrical goods \u2013 short lifespans built into appliances by manufacturers so that customers have to buy new ones sooner \u2013 and make them more energy efficient.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2021\/mar\/10\/tough-new-rules-aim-to-make-electrical-goods-last-longer\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/181fc902decb8484dd31bef2c7b1ba867bf2a382\/0_94_4398_2638\/master\/4398.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=8fe6022a604a0705eb5e4178ef66ff11\" title=\"Tough new rules aim to make electrical goods last longer\" \/>Government to force firms to make spare parts available and create products that are cheaper to run<br \/>\nTougher rules are being introduced to make appliances such as fridges, washing machines and TVs cheaper to run and last longer, the government has said.<br \/>\nNew legislation aims to tackle \u201cpremature obsolescence\u201d in electrical goods \u2013 short lifespans built into appliances by manufacturers so that customers have to buy new ones sooner \u2013 and make them more energy efficient. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government to force firms to make spare parts available and create products that are cheaper to run Tougher rules are being introduced to make appliances such as fridges, washing machines and TVs cheaper to run and last longer, the government has said. New legislation aims to tackle \u201cpremature obsolescence\u201d in electrical goods \u2013 short lifespans &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/10\/tough-new-rules-aim-to-make-electrical-goods-last-longer\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tough new rules aim to make electrical goods last longer<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}