Campaigns
Many of the things we buy today just aren’t built to last. They break, they’re impossible to fix yourself, and the company that made them wants to charge an arm and a leg for a repair. The company tries to convince you that it’s better to just buy a new device — it’s less hassle.
Phones, laptops and even tractors built today are often full of parts and software that manufacturers don’t make available to independent repairers, so the company can keep a monopoly on repair. That forces many users whose devices just need minor repairs to trash them and spend hundreds of dollars on new ones.
These days we all need to be smart consumers. We need access to the information and resources it takes to avoid the latest scams, stop identity thieves, spot rip offs and keep unsafe food and toxic products out of our shopping carts.
We’re making sure you have the tools to make smart, safe, informed choices while standing up to surprise medical bills, junk fees and predatory financial practices.
More than one-third of the American food supply gets wasted every year. A surprising amount of that is perfectly safe food that is thrown away simply because of confusing date labels. And all of those wasted resources impact us every day through pollution in our communities and unnecessarily high food prices.
Instead of spending precious resources to do something that ultimately is just wasted and harmful, we could choose to do something different. In the long run we should make sure that all through our food system, from farm to fork, waste is minimized. And in the immediate term we should eliminate the outdated, and confusing labeling system that is contributing to so much waste.