The European Commission presented, on Thursday 23 September, a proposal for a directive to improve charging interfaces for smartphones (and similar electronic and portable devices) with the primary aim of limiting market fragmentation and costs for consumers, but also to reduce electronic waste.
“We all have a large number of these chargers in our drawers, which have not been used for many years, but which we keep because, you never know, ‘they may be useful one day’. In short,...