[en] EU regulators want 5 years of smartphone parts, much better batteries

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European Commission regulators have suggested that smartphones and
tablets sold there offer 15 different kinds of spare parts for at least
five years, as part of a broad effort to lessen their environmental
impact.

A draft regulation of "ecodesign requirements for mobile phones,
cordless phones, and slate tablets" posted on August 31 notes that
phones and tablets are "often replaced prematurely by users" and are
"not sufficiently used or recycled" (i.e., junk-drawer-ed) at the end
of their life. The cost is the energy and new materials mined from the
earth for new phones, and unrecycled materials sitting in homes.
Extending the lives of smartphones by five years-from their current
typical two- to three-year lives-would be like taking 5 million cars
off the road, according to the Commission's findings.

The most notable proposed fix (listed in Annex II) is for phone makers
and sellers to make "professional repairers" available for five years
after the date a phone is removed from the market. Those repairers
would have access to parts including the battery, display, cameras,
charging ports, mechanical buttons, microphones, speakers, and hinge
assemblies (including for folding phones and tablets).

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