López-Bermúdez, FranciscoVence Deza, Xavier2025-12-172025-12-172025-06-24López-Bermúdez, F., & Vence, X. (2025). Dealing with barriers to repair from the repairers’ perspective. Proceedings of the 6th Product Lifetimes and the Environment Conference (PLATE2025), (6). https://doi.org/10.54337/plate2025-104152794-9540https://hdl.handle.net/10347/44555Repair is a key component of the circular economy paradigm and holds great environmental potential. Our current linear economies, which rely on constantly expanding markets, are not conceived to be restorative and hence create structural barriers to repair. Through semi-structured interviews and questionnaires we explore the commercial repairers’ perspective on barriers to repair, as well as their agency and the strategies they employ to overcome those barriers. Our research has shown that repairers tend to bypass barriers by means of specific repair techniques and cooperation networksengThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Attribution 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/RepairRepairabilityCircular economyObsolescenceBarriers to repairjournal article10.54337/PLATE2025-10415open access