RT Bodo Immink
Great - Tackling #eWaste management!
@ICTAuthorityKE, with @giz_gmbh #Kenya support, is building capacity to tackle e-waste management, raising awareness & promoting safe disposal in line with @NemaKenya & @TheWEEECentre regulations for environmental protection and public health!

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/bodo_immink/status/1687010037389037568

@c0debabe My mom always checks the reviews by Consumer Reports and got me hooked on doing the same. Love finding out that they are also active advocates for #RightToRepair. We need everyone to fight #eWaste, planned obsolescence, and enshittified product schemes.

A harmonised charging port 🔌 will not only allow consumers to save money but time.
The #EUCommonCharger will help Europeans:
💶 save up to €250 M a year on unnecessary charger purchases
♻️ reduce #eWaste by 980 T yearly
⌛️ save time trying to plug it in right at first attempt

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/DigitalEU/status/1681571245400244225

It keeps getting better!🤩
@europarl_en has voted for an #ecodesign law that will force companies to make products that last long and are easy to repair.💯
Find out more here: https://greens.eu/3PR1rBi
#RightToRepair #RepairScore #eWaste #PlannedObsolescence https://t.co/9NTvJ0988m

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/GreensEFA/status/1679408221906169857

You can do something to combat #EWaste with #FreeSoftware!

Production accounts for 75+% of a device's #carbon footprint over its operating life.

Software can determine how long a device remains in use.

Lightweight, up-to-date software, free from bloat and ads, keeps less-powerful #hardware running and out of the bin.

Software freedom means hardware freedom.

Donate to #KDE and other #FOSS projects to support #SustainableSoftware.

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2022/

#KDEEco #OpenSource #Sustainability

Sitting in another office waiting for an #ewaste pickup. At least it's an easy Friday.

🤳 Σκεφτήκατε ποτέ τι συμβαίνει στο τηλέφωνό σας μετά από μια αναβάθμιση;

♻️ Ως μέρος του #CircularEconomy, η 🇪🇺 επιχειρεί να μειώσει το #eWaste & να προωθήσει την επαναχρησιμοποίηση & την ανακύκλωση παλαιών συσκευών

🔗 https://europa.eu/!xqPGCY

#DigitalEU #EUGreenDeal

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EEAthina/status/1633377044234113024

🤳 Σκεφτήκατε ποτέ τι συμβαίνει στο τηλέφωνό σας μετά από μια αναβάθμιση;

♻️ Ως μέρος του #CircularEconomy, η 🇪🇺 επιχειρεί να μειώσει το #eWaste & να προωθήσει την επαναχρησιμοποίηση & την ανακύκλωση παλαιών συσκευών

🔗 https://europa.eu/!hkxh9d

#DigitalEU #EUGreenDeal

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EEAthina/status/1614925461024550912

🤳 Σκεφτήκατε ποτέ τι συμβαίνει στο τηλέφωνό σας μετά από μια αναβάθμιση;

♻️ Ως μέρος του #CircularEconomy, η 🇪🇺 μειώνει το #eWaste & προωθεί την επαναχρησιμοποίηση & την ανακύκλωση παλαιών συσκευών

🔗 https://europa.eu/!hkxh9d

#EUGreenDeal #DigitalEU

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EEAthina/status/1607811055090302979

Here is a list of discontinued #eReaders from #Wikipedia.

How many of these devices still work but nonetheless end up as #eWaste?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_e-readers#Discontinued_models

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource removes user dependency on companies and third parties to continue hardware support. #FOSS empowers communities and makes it possible to have up-to-date and #secure software for devices that might otherwise end up polluting #landfills.

Paper industry has negative environmental effects, e.g., when acids poison waters.

But electronics can be devastating: e-readers include numerous chemicals harmful to health & environment.

Production is resource intensive: e-reader that weighs <200 grams accounts for 15kg materials including non-renewable metals/rare earths, 300L water & 170kg CO2.

And miserable working conditions under which resources extracted in global South and then disposed there as toxic #eWaste.

Source: [1] above.

#KDE already joined 100+ organizations supporting a right to install any #software on any device. Now I and others are signing the #OpenLetter to show our support too.

Join us! https://fsfe.org/activities/upcyclingandroid/openletter.html

Let's fight the #eWaste 'tsunami' with over 4500 Eiffel towers worth generated a year (see comment).

With this right, millions of devices can stay in use and out of landfills and new devices aren't produced & shipped unnecessarily!

#Ecodesign #RightToRepair #EWWR #FreeSoftware #KDEEco #Ecology

RT @alexagiussaliba: #UniveralCharger is finally a legislation. All procedural formalities are now over - EU Consumers & Enviornment can now benefit from having less fragmentation, less useless #chargers and less #ewaste

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/TheProgressives/status/1595682384682393601

RT @tecdr: My latest @Irish_TechNews #podcast with @alexagiussaliba @EU_Commission @fionnualc
@EP_SingleMarket #tech #legislation #sustainability #CommonCharger #ewaste #innovation #USBtypeC
https://t.co/faQwEaguc0

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EPinIreland/status/1585170382847635457

Face à l'↗️ rapide des déchets 📱💻en 🇪🇺, aidez-nous à évaluer la Directive sur les déchets d’équipements électriques & électroniques.♻️
Ces règles sont-elles toujours adaptées? Doivent-elle être simplifiées?
#EUHaveYourSay 👉https://europa.eu/!8PF8hw

#economiecirculaire #EWaste

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EU4BE/status/1581208286069919745

Did you know precious metals such as gold 🪙 can be found in #EWaste?

It’s vital to recycle e-waste to recover these metals and achieve a #CircularEconomy. But the process uses large amounts of #energy 🔋.

Researchers propose a new efficient system ⬇
https://environment.ec.europa.eu/news/e-waste-chemical-processing-without-heat-may-offer-efficient-method-recovering-metals-end-life-2022-10-12_en

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/SfEP/status/1580534504589910020

RT @SfEP: Did you know precious metals such as gold 🪙 can be found in #EWaste?

It’s vital to recycle e-waste to recover these metals and achieve a #CircularEconomy. But the process uses large amounts of #energy 🔋.

Researchers propose a new efficient system ⬇
https://environment.ec.europa.eu/news/e-waste-chemical-processing-without-heat-may-offer-efficient-method-recovering-metals-end-life-2022-10-12_en

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EU_ENV/status/1580535707080146944

🤳 Σκεφτήκατε ποτέ τι συμβαίνει στο τηλέφωνό σας μετά από μια αναβάθμιση;

♻️ Ως μέρος του #CircularEconomy, η 🇪🇺 επιχειρεί να μειώσει το #eWaste & να προωθήσει την επαναχρησιμοποίηση & την ανακύκλωση παλαιών συσκευών

🔗 https://europa.eu/!hkxh9d

#DigitalEU #EUGreenDeal

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EEAthina/status/1556256350790750209

🔌 One single charger to rule them all!

🇪🇺 The @EU_Commission is pulling the plug on consumer frustration & #eWaste with the new #CommonCharger for electronic devices 📲

Learn more about the benefits 👇

#DigitalEUDiary

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/DigitalEU/status/1555463869622935552

🤳 Σκεφτήκατε ποτέ τι συμβαίνει στο τηλέφωνό σας μετά από μια αναβάθμιση;

♻️ Ως μέρος του #CircularEconomy, η 🇪🇺 επιχειρεί να μειώσει το #eWaste & να προωθήσει την επαναχρησιμοποίηση & την ανακύκλωση παλαιών συσκευών

🔗 https://europa.eu/!hkxh9d

#EUGreenDeal #DigitalEU

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EEAthina/status/1552232356697628672