Image: Getty 51,000 to 82,000 tons of waste. That is the volume of phone chargers that are sold with replacement handsets every year, assuming 50 to 80% of new mobile phone sales are “upgrades” for existing cell phone owners, according a GSMA analysis from UNEP, Gartner, European Commission Integrated Product Policy Pilot on Mobile Phones, University of Southern

Queensland data. That is not counting manufacturing wastes and emissions either. A Universal Charger Standard would make it possible for you to simply continue using the perfectly good charger you already have at home. Or to swap with a friend…

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EU Could Force Universal Charger Standard for Mobile Phones