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.@EUCommission also good to add that
Starting from June 20, 2025, smartphones and tablets sold in the European Union must have a minimum of 5 years of software support
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@th0maswaschosen @EUCommission they have
Starting from June 20, 2025, smartphones and tablets sold in the European Union must have a minimum of 5 years of software support
@RoBo2 @EUCommission 5 years when most people use their phone for at least 4 still makes 2 old devices per capita every decade
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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 or we can renew and keep using our phones with Free Software!
https://fsfe.org/activities/upcyclingandroid/ #FreeSoftware #UpcyclingAndroid #FOSS -
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 About fucking time...
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I believe this only counts phones that aren't used for anything, not second phones and "work" phones.
@Goodlucksil @Ryoma123 @EUCommission
How do you count that?I have an old flip phone somewhere. Been used like a week. I bought it as a backup, when I dropped my old phone. After I got it repaired, I haven't used the backup phone.
I don't know the state of the battery, it is separately wrapped in the original box, so any discharge over time will be internal to the battery.
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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 you should add a link to a list of places where you can give your old phone to.
Recycling it is better than when the city puts 90% of it into a landfill.... -
@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.
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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 you could try banning locked bootloaders, or at the very least make it mandatory to open them once os updates stop
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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've got at least 14, make me an offer
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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 This is great! But you know what would be even better than collecting items we've already paid for, and recycle them to sell them back to us?
- ban planned obsolescence in hardware, software, and accessories
- mandate hardware and software must be cross-brand compatibleRecycling is good, but it more so creates new industry loops with collecting, extracting, reusing, repackaging, rather than effectively reducing the need to buy more on consumer or industry level
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@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?
@casperd @casdeiro @EUCommission the material possibility of living on this planet.
Please do some readings to understand the depth of the current situation.
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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 so many replies airing grievances and none has asked what the percentages in the infographic refer to!?
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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 or better promote modular, repairable and upgrade-able phones so we don't need to dispose of them. Don't you think?
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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.
How do you come to that figure, presumably by guessing or industry wishful thinking..
Old Xiomi in my house steers my solar system, Only connection, Connection is to my Delta Pro by Bluetooth.
Soon I will have a lovely non Google Huawei Honor 9X Pro I can not do Banking with it any more. Thanks Ing..
That will then stay in a car holder.
OSM And plus local Maps for Navigation.Another connects a computer to wifi.
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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.Maybe start toake it possible to give a phone a longer life instead of must have a new one every 3y due to battery problems
As in:- forbid the programmed 800 times charging before the battery dies
- have manufacturers use silicium batteries as they are not only faster, they also have a much longer life and are more environmental friendly.
Yes that is possible on a phone. I am typing this on one with silicium battery... About 1400 times charging, the company said.
- open source phones. Break the money monopoly of Google on androids (I can't speak for iPhone, I never had nor will have one), have people use their own choice of apps and REAL privacy.Start with the manufacturers for once. Make them take the old phones back for recycling, by having easy acces points.
Don't start with the civilians. They will follow automatically when the manufacturers change their atitude: Money money money .. -
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've hoarded all my old lithium batteries waiting for a recycling option. Unfortunately I'll have to mail them to the EU as Canada quit the sustainability economy after electing Mark Carney's Liberal-Cons. -
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