There are around 700 million unused phones in EU homes.
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There are around 700 million unused phones in EU homes.
That’s nearly two devices for every single person.
By disposing of them properly, we can:
Reuse lithium, cobalt, and rare earth elements Reduce our reliance on imports Increase our resilience against global market disruptions
The EU’s Circular Economy Action Plan wants to make repairable design the norm, as a vital step toward reducing e-waste.Or you could legislate against developing software at a rate thats imposible to use in a sustained form the same device for more than 2-3 years before having to dispose it?
Edit: or at least having some kind of limitation or obligations on device companies to make products that endure at least X years...
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There are around 700 million unused phones in EU homes.
That’s nearly two devices for every single person.
By disposing of them properly, we can:
Reuse lithium, cobalt, and rare earth elements Reduce our reliance on imports Increase our resilience against global market disruptions
The EU’s Circular Economy Action Plan wants to make repairable design the norm, as a vital step toward reducing e-waste. -
@EUCommission
Some may be used without SIM as media players and/or cameras.The walled gardens of Apple & Google need ending so that people can add and remove apps. Banks and other artificially make phones obsolete by Apps that only work on recent iOS or Android even when the phone OS is still supported.
We need a bigger picture than repair & recycling.
@EUCommission
Also it's expensive to keep a second phone for emergency use in Ireland:
The phone companies expire call credit.
The phone companies expire the SIM and recycle the number if call credit isn't periodically added, even if not used up.Comreg is "captured" by the phone companies and more focused on revenue for Government.
We need strong genuine Regulators in EU, maybe answerable to EU and voters, not national governments & commercial interests. -
There are around 700 million unused phones in EU homes.
That’s nearly two devices for every single person.
By disposing of them properly, we can:
Reuse lithium, cobalt, and rare earth elements Reduce our reliance on imports Increase our resilience against global market disruptions
The EU’s Circular Economy Action Plan wants to make repairable design the norm, as a vital step toward reducing e-waste.@EUCommission awesome! Now do home appliances. Refrigerators, washing machines, dryers, dishwashers and televisions need the same treatment.
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There are around 700 million unused phones in EU homes.
That’s nearly two devices for every single person.
By disposing of them properly, we can:
Reuse lithium, cobalt, and rare earth elements Reduce our reliance on imports Increase our resilience against global market disruptions
The EU’s Circular Economy Action Plan wants to make repairable design the norm, as a vital step toward reducing e-waste.@EUCommission ja man könnte die Rohstoffe daraus wieder zurück gewinnen da diese Wertvoll sind sollte man auch bereit sein einen Angemessenen Preis zu zahlen wie wäre es mit 25% des Preises was ein neues Smartphone kostet
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@EUCommission or, deal with the SW problem so those phones can be used for other things. force vendors to release technical documentation for outdated phones so we can build SW for it ourselves. and I don't mean only soc, but also actuators, cameras etc
@amackif @EUCommission that'd be perfect, but I don't see that happen
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There are around 700 million unused phones in EU homes.
That’s nearly two devices for every single person.
By disposing of them properly, we can:
Reuse lithium, cobalt, and rare earth elements Reduce our reliance on imports Increase our resilience against global market disruptions
The EU’s Circular Economy Action Plan wants to make repairable design the norm, as a vital step toward reducing e-waste.@EUCommission devices which aren't broken can be flashed with #postmarketOS or #mobian, and used as mobile phones or tiny servers
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There are around 700 million unused phones in EU homes.
That’s nearly two devices for every single person.
By disposing of them properly, we can:
Reuse lithium, cobalt, and rare earth elements Reduce our reliance on imports Increase our resilience against global market disruptions
The EU’s Circular Economy Action Plan wants to make repairable design the norm, as a vital step toward reducing e-waste.@EUCommission I kept all of my old ones. I don't think it's a lot for a 30ish years span
I also have 2 landline phones (not in the picture) 
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There are around 700 million unused phones in EU homes.
That’s nearly two devices for every single person.
By disposing of them properly, we can:
Reuse lithium, cobalt, and rare earth elements Reduce our reliance on imports Increase our resilience against global market disruptions
The EU’s Circular Economy Action Plan wants to make repairable design the norm, as a vital step toward reducing e-waste.@EUCommission
Maybe we wouldn't need to keep them as hot spares if there was legislation that crucial everyday tasks could be done without a smartphone registered at either Apple or Google. -
There are around 700 million unused phones in EU homes.
That’s nearly two devices for every single person.
By disposing of them properly, we can:
Reuse lithium, cobalt, and rare earth elements Reduce our reliance on imports Increase our resilience against global market disruptions
The EU’s Circular Economy Action Plan wants to make repairable design the norm, as a vital step toward reducing e-waste.@EUCommission Recently bought another couch secondhand. Reason i had to buy another couch was that the components *read springs* could not be bought seperately at the store i bought the original new couch. Yes, handing in old equipment is a good idea but also the right to repair or to not have to buy a completely new/different thing because of not being able to repair. *also* focus on that.
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There are around 700 million unused phones in EU homes.
That’s nearly two devices for every single person.
By disposing of them properly, we can:
Reuse lithium, cobalt, and rare earth elements Reduce our reliance on imports Increase our resilience against global market disruptions
The EU’s Circular Economy Action Plan wants to make repairable design the norm, as a vital step toward reducing e-waste.@EUCommission
Jetzt müssen "nur noch" die #Smartphone-#Betriebssystem|e so gestaltet sein, dass man diese SELBST ersetzen, erweitern, bereinigen, kontrollieren kann und seine Daten EINFACH von einem Telefon auf ein andere umziehen kann!
#OhneCloudZwang
#Interoperabilität
#interoperability
#Standardisierung
#standardization
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@EUCommission There's nothing "circular" about it, if we keep on buying more and more of everything year after year. The first rule to be circular is to stop growing. Circles have a constant radius.
@casdeiro @EUCommission i have never interacted with a degrowther. every time i see it, i raise my (ignorant) eyebrows. since i see progress partially linked with growth. what for you personally is so attractive about the whole degrowth movement?
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There are around 700 million unused phones in EU homes.
That’s nearly two devices for every single person.
By disposing of them properly, we can:
Reuse lithium, cobalt, and rare earth elements Reduce our reliance on imports Increase our resilience against global market disruptions
The EU’s Circular Economy Action Plan wants to make repairable design the norm, as a vital step toward reducing e-waste.@EUCommission stop trading with Israel.
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There are around 700 million unused phones in EU homes.
That’s nearly two devices for every single person.
By disposing of them properly, we can:
Reuse lithium, cobalt, and rare earth elements Reduce our reliance on imports Increase our resilience against global market disruptions
The EU’s Circular Economy Action Plan wants to make repairable design the norm, as a vital step toward reducing e-waste.@EUCommission mich würden dazu ja mal folgende Details interessieren:
1. wie viele Unternehmen haben wir in der EU die alte Elektronik tatsächlich recyceln können
2. wie sehen diese Recyclingprozesse (inkl. Folgenabschätzung)
3. welche Stoffe werden konkret aus den Altgeräten zurück gewonnen?
4. wie viel von dem Gerät landet im Müll oder im EU-Ausland (Stichwort Afrika)?
5. Wie hoch ist der Recyclinganteil aktuell und was wäre das theoretische Potential?Wenn jemand dazu konkrete Infos hat, gerne immer her damit! Bislang lese ich immer nur: gebt uns eure alten Geräte. Aber Informationen was dann konkret mit diesen passiert sind schwer zu finden... würde mich ehrlich interessieren. Ohne Polemik oder Vorurteile.
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There are around 700 million unused phones in EU homes.
That’s nearly two devices for every single person.
By disposing of them properly, we can:
Reuse lithium, cobalt, and rare earth elements Reduce our reliance on imports Increase our resilience against global market disruptions
The EU’s Circular Economy Action Plan wants to make repairable design the norm, as a vital step toward reducing e-waste.@EUCommission Have you considered making that easier? In order to dispose of my ewaste I need to make an appointment (!) at the local recycling center, find someone to drive me there as they hate pedestrians, queue like some kind of indolent buffoon in spite of having an appointment.
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There are around 700 million unused phones in EU homes.
That’s nearly two devices for every single person.
By disposing of them properly, we can:
Reuse lithium, cobalt, and rare earth elements Reduce our reliance on imports Increase our resilience against global market disruptions
The EU’s Circular Economy Action Plan wants to make repairable design the norm, as a vital step toward reducing e-waste.@EUCommission I have an old phone at home that works perfectly fine but can't be used because banking apps and other essential functions stopped working when the OS wasn't updated any more.
I don't want to dispose of a device that works perfectly fine. My sister also has a second phone just for the banking apps. It's ridiculous! -
@EUCommission Have you considered making that easier? In order to dispose of my ewaste I need to make an appointment (!) at the local recycling center, find someone to drive me there as they hate pedestrians, queue like some kind of indolent buffoon in spite of having an appointment.
@EUCommission Needless to say, the opening hours are ridiculous.
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There are around 700 million unused phones in EU homes.
That’s nearly two devices for every single person.
By disposing of them properly, we can:
Reuse lithium, cobalt, and rare earth elements Reduce our reliance on imports Increase our resilience against global market disruptions
The EU’s Circular Economy Action Plan wants to make repairable design the norm, as a vital step toward reducing e-waste. -
There are around 700 million unused phones in EU homes.
That’s nearly two devices for every single person.
By disposing of them properly, we can:
Reuse lithium, cobalt, and rare earth elements Reduce our reliance on imports Increase our resilience against global market disruptions
The EU’s Circular Economy Action Plan wants to make repairable design the norm, as a vital step toward reducing e-waste.@EUCommission probably no one reads it here, but you should give some resources to @postmarketOS , since they are the forefront for this problem; and they tackle it even before recycling, making these devices reusable.
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There are around 700 million unused phones in EU homes.
That’s nearly two devices for every single person.
By disposing of them properly, we can:
Reuse lithium, cobalt, and rare earth elements Reduce our reliance on imports Increase our resilience against global market disruptions
The EU’s Circular Economy Action Plan wants to make repairable design the norm, as a vital step toward reducing e-waste.@EUCommission i have a netbook with 1 GB of RAM that im finding it much easier to repurpose than a phone with 3 GB of RAM and a much more powerful CPU
being able to remove the battery easily, run directly from the charger without a battery connected, and have an open bootloader so that i can install a modern and lighter operating system on it, while also not relying on whether google decides if my device is allowed to be useful or not because I chose the operating system instead of letting the OEM choose it for me (and then the OEM drops support much sooner than I'd like to keep using the device for) would reduce e-waste much more than disposing of the old phones
sure, i agree disposing of old devices to recycle them is a good way to prevent e-waste and save resources. but being able to keep our devices for much longer than is currently the case would be even more effective at that
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