Green recycling goals? Pending EU directive could hammer used mobile market

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Bloc's USB-C rules forecast to disrupt supply, barring 8 million imported phones from reaching Europe's ports

The impending Radio Equipment Directive in the EU is forecast to render eight million used smartphones, or two in five units, no longer available for supply and – at least in the trading bloc – effectively obsolete.

According to the tech market researcher, the regulation will affect both the primary and secondary markets, and it estimates that more than 60 percent of the secondhand smartphone market will not support USB-C when the directive comes into force. Ouch. The EU is a region that is the"greatest importer of used phones," mostly coming from the US, Japan, and Singapore.

 

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