{"id":8203,"date":"2024-12-04T16:26:13","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T15:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.energiepark.at\/prolonged-use-of-devices-whats-the-point\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T16:39:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T14:39:12","slug":"prolonged-use-of-devices-whats-the-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.energiepark.at\/en\/prolonged-use-of-devices-whats-the-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Prolonged use of devices &#8211; what&#8217;s the point?"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Repair your smartphone or buy a new one?<\/p>\n<p>The washing machine is faulty &#8211; is it even worth repairing?<\/p>\n<p><strong>YES! &#8211; especially for the environment!   <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An analysis by the Vienna Repair Network shows that if the repair rate in Austria were to increase by just 25%, over 10,500 tons of electronic waste could be avoided &#8211; equivalent to the empty weight of 258 medium-haul aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>The Repair Network in Vienna is an initiative of the City of Vienna that lists repair businesses and promotes repairs of all kinds. The repair network&#8217;s partner businesses have successfully carried out around 137,500 repairs, saving 1,680 tons of material from being thrown away. <\/p>\n<p>More information is available at:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wenigermist.at\/reparaturnetzwerk-wien\"><strong>https:\/\/www.wenigermist.at\/reparaturnetzwerk-wien<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;8199&#8243; img_size=&#8221;large&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text](C) <a role=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.canva.com\/design\/DAGxdKiaVoM\/nhnZTOoqajRnkSOM5CaJrg\/edit#\" data-anchor-id=\"author\">Mariia Ovsiienko<\/a> from <a role=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.canva.com\/design\/DAGxdKiaVoM\/nhnZTOoqajRnkSOM5CaJrg\/edit#\" data-anchor-id=\"brand\">Marista&#8217;s Images<\/a>.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Repair your smartphone or buy a new one? The washing machine is faulty &#8211; is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kem3-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energiepark.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energiepark.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energiepark.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energiepark.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energiepark.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8203"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.energiepark.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8205,"href":"https:\/\/www.energiepark.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8203\/revisions\/8205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energiepark.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energiepark.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energiepark.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energiepark.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}