This will be another "paved with good intentions" clusterfuck.
They don't just talk about phones but all appliances. Look around your home. ANYTHING with a non-removable battery will get more expensive and bulkier.
And you bet they shoehorned a ton of eco crap and bureaucratic busywork in those 129 pages.
Off the top of my hat what I have around the house: smartphone, ear buds + charging station, handheld vacuum, flashlight, electric toothbrush, electric bike pump, electric lighter.
And whatever else people might have that's portable and battery powered: soldering iron, screwdriver, multimeter, cheapo oscilloscope, kitchen mixer, oral irrigator, radios, bluetooth speakers, tablets, smart watches, vape devices, electric shaver, portable fans, etc.
Off the top of my hat what I have around the house: smartphone, ear buds + charging station, handheld vacuum, flashlight, electric toothbrush, electric bike pump, electric lighter.
Ah, I do have some of those, but I never thought it would be applicable to that. I've never had the problem of earbuds or electric toothbrushes becoming unusable due to battery atrophy.
The mandate should be to have either a replaceable battery OR the company has to replace the battery at cost.
Then the company can choose whether they want it bulkier and cheap, or they can seal it in with layers of waterproof glue and each time customers replace a battery the company bears the cost of how difficult they made it.
Bad.
This will be another "paved with good intentions" clusterfuck.
They don't just talk about phones but all appliances. Look around your home. ANYTHING with a non-removable battery will get more expensive and bulkier.
And you bet they shoehorned a ton of eco crap and bureaucratic busywork in those 129 pages.
I can believe this is the road to hell, but I can't believe the EU had 'good intentions'.
Maybe I'm a poor pauper, but I can't think of anything with a non-removable battery.
Off the top of my hat what I have around the house: smartphone, ear buds + charging station, handheld vacuum, flashlight, electric toothbrush, electric bike pump, electric lighter.
And whatever else people might have that's portable and battery powered: soldering iron, screwdriver, multimeter, cheapo oscilloscope, kitchen mixer, oral irrigator, radios, bluetooth speakers, tablets, smart watches, vape devices, electric shaver, portable fans, etc.
Ah, I do have some of those, but I never thought it would be applicable to that. I've never had the problem of earbuds or electric toothbrushes becoming unusable due to battery atrophy.
That's basically the EU motto: "Sounds good if you don't think about it."
However the more you think about it, the worse it gets.
The mandate should be to have either a replaceable battery OR the company has to replace the battery at cost.
Then the company can choose whether they want it bulkier and cheap, or they can seal it in with layers of waterproof glue and each time customers replace a battery the company bears the cost of how difficult they made it.