Laptops will be required to have USB Type-C charging ports by 2026.
In the past decade, the European Commission has worked with phone manufacturers to reduce the number of chargers for mobile phones from 30 to three. According to the release, unused phone chargers reportedly contribute to over 11,000 tons of e-waste every year.
This new law is intended to reduce the number of people that just throw out their chargers every time they buy a new device. The European Commission also projects that consumers could save up to"We have waited more than ten years for these rules, but we can finally leave the current plethora of chargers in the past, wrote Parliament rapporteur.
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