I fix its mission is to enable everyone
to fix everything and the critical part
of that mission is making sure that we
have the part selection available for
all the products that you are that's why
I'm excited to be partnering with
electronic recyclers international the
best electronics recycler in the u.s.
our mission that Eri is really to be the
most efficient recycler and reuse er of
all electronics that get recycled
anything really that can get the
recycled material back into the market
we're trying to optimize that to keep as
much stuff out of landfills and preserve
all of our resources any kind that you
can take parts from a product that would
have gone into a shredder and use it to
repair an existing product it's a win
for the environment the products that we
use have a huge cost to manufacture that
embodied energy and much of the material
is lost when we send it to material
recovery so when we're able to get parts
and use them to repair existing products
it's a huge win there's rare earths in a
lot of electronics that once they've
been shredded down or put into a
landfill can never be recaptured so if
we shred something down or put in a
landfill an iPhone logic board say we'll
never be able to be an iPhone logic
board again however if we can feed that
logic board back into the market it can
actually live another life there are a
lot of different reasons that product
can end up at in the electrons recycler
many of these products are fully
functional some of them have never even
been used we're able to go in rescue
these parts from the shredder and make
repair parts available for products that
have never had service parts available
Kindles and GoPros even though they're
relatively easy to repair have not had a
part of option available for them and so
it just hasn't been possible to fix them
I've used iFixit stuff since I was
probably 16 years old and started
wanting to mess with electronics and
take some apart and one of the issues
that I've always known about iFixit is
really that they weren't able to offer
the parts for all the devices that
people are wanting to fix it just always
been hard to find some of those parts
for the more rare devices with all of
the material that Eri sees every year
it's going to be revolutionary in really
the repair world because these devices
that at some point or at a point in the
past were not able to be fixed now have
repair parts repair
tools and repair guides all in one place
all of the parts that we sell go through
rigorous quality control we have a
2-step verification process where every
single part that we sell from the
recycler is tested in at least two
different devices so we actually are
getting parts that have been put through
more testing before they get to us then
all of our techs put them through more
extensive testing to make sure that each
of the parts is ready to go as if it was
brand new we're so confident in our
testing process and the quality of these
parts that we're putting a lifetime
guarantee on all of them
the electronics repair world and the
recycling world haven't worked all that
closely together in the past that's
something that we're changing today with
this partnership with Eri we're bringing
a new realm of repair possibilities to
the world