Do You Support The EU's Requirement That Smart Phones Have Replaceable Batteries?

ihfree on 22/09/2023 - 15:20
Last edited 22/09/2023 - 19:01 by 1 other user

The EU has introduced a law requiring phones and other devices to have an easily replaceable battery. This law looks to create a circular economy for batteries.

Do you support the regulation? If not, why not?

A portable battery should be considered to be removable by the end-user when it can be removed with the use of commercially available tools and without requiring the use of specialised tools, unless they are provided free of charge, or proprietary tools, thermal energy or solvents to disassemble it

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    Mrgreenz on 26/09/2023 - 17:01

    Saving the world 1 propreitery cable/ removable battery at a time!

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  dontboopthesnoot on 26/09/2023 - 11:54

  They will take advantage of the situation and make the battery drain faster

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  Marrk on 26/09/2023 - 14:56

  As long as the requirement is not for mobile phones to have a traditional battery compartment/the user being able to purchase a kit online/having access to all the necessary tools is good enough.

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  Mrgreenz on 26/09/2023 - 16:52

  I would've been behind it 5+ years ago.

  Nowadays batteries hold a decent charge for the usefull life of phone.

  Probably benefits a few people I guess.

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