@EU_Commission Meh… it’s a good start but with #smartphones it misses the problem: proprietary #nonfreesoftware. Perfectly good hardware is still being destroyed with this _recommendation_. Why not recommend a #rightToRepair solution that blocks the sale of phones running non-free software so that consumers can use their phones for as long as the hardware lasts?

@EU_Commission have you heard of @Fairphone you shoud make them the official phone of the EU

@EU_Commission a colleague recently gave me his old phones that he was about to throw away. They still work fine for my purposes.

Recycling material alone is not enough. We need more efforts to promote and allow reusing old devices as-is. Easy replaceable batteries and hardware specifications to write replacement software are aspects that are lacking.

The device in your photo is quite advanced and could run up to date software and still be useful if the right documentation would be available.

@EU_Commission this is good but before "recycling", what about giving a second life to computers by using Linux.

@EU_Commission Using a photo of a Blackberry device here is genius, because there are hundreds of thousands of perfectly functioning Blackberry phones that are useless because Blackberry turned off their servers and doesn't allow anyone else to set up a third party one.

@EU_Commission @primonatura @primonatura.co.uk

@EU_Commission Enforce opening the software, at least after the manufacturer stops giving security updates.
Today it is still possible, that you buy new phone in the shop, that will not receive any security updates (or very few) at all.
Lack of software support is the biggest problem.

@EU_Commission Manufacturers should be required to buy back all old electronics and have recycling facilities in order to break down and recycle all the parts of their devices.

@EU_Commission please support @postmarketOS trying to extend the life of old phones (lots of devs are EU citizens btw)

@EU_Commission

https://www.apple.com/environment/

https://www.apple.com/shop/trade-in

@EU_Commission Phones and other devices are not packaging material. They are not single-use. This is going the wrong direction.

Ever wondered why laptop recycling isn't a problem? Because you can install any operating system on an old laptop, and still get some use out of it.

If phones weren't artifically locked down by vendors, then old phones could still serve as security cameras, smart home interfaces, servers, and many other applications. Maybe not for average people, but there's enough nerds out there who could use an old phone instead of a Raspberry Pi.

The EU should apply pressure to vendors to release driver and kernel source code at the end of their devices lifespan, so users can run a free operating system and do literally anything with the hardware.

@EU_Commission you need to encourage manufacturers to respect our right to repair (and access and modify) devices and discourage planned obsolescence, even in its more insidious forms such as no more (security) updates, inaccessible hardware which requires specialised tools to repair (if repairable at all), flimsy designs and components that fail, on average, right after the warranty ends, even if they haven't been programmed as such and more.

Reduce before reuse before recycle.