Sustainable Shopping: EU's New Mandatory Energy Label for Smartphones and Tablets
Mandatory Energy Rating for Smartphones and Tablets to be Enforced by EU - Mandatory Energy Label for Smartphones and Tablets Imminent in EU Markets
Wondering about your smartphone or tablet's eco-friendliness? Get ready, because come June 2023, manufacturers will be slapping a new energy label on their devices, making it easier for EU consumers to make sustainable, informed choices.
Here's the lowdown on the new label from Brussels. It Rating:
- Energy Efficiency: Say goodbye to power-hungry devices. This label indicates how energy-efficient your device is, helping you save on electricity bills and minimize your carbon footprint.
- Battery Life: No more frequent charging. The label gives you an idea of your device's battery longevity, ensuring you don't have to replace it every other year.
- Dust and Moisture Protection: The label shows how resistant your device is against dust, moisture, and drops, signifying its robustness and durability.
- Repairability: The label provides info on the availability and ease of acquiring important spare parts for your device, making repairs hassle-free and longer-lasting.
- Manufacturer Obligations: For greater sustainability, manufacturers are required to ensure software updates for longer periods, enhance device resistance, and include essential spare parts in their offerings.
In addition to the energy label, smartphone and tablet manufacturers also face stricter eco-design requirements. These new rules are designed to lengthen the device's lifespan, reduce environmental impact, promote circular economy principles, and contribute to EU energy efficiency and greenhouse gas emission reduction targets.
The new regulations cover smartphones, cordless phones, and tablets with screen sizes ranging from 7 to 17.4 inches. They exclude tablet computers with detachable keyboards and flexible display devices. The aim is to save electricity consumption (2.2 TWh by 2030) and consumer expenses (€20 billion by 2030) in the EU market.
Get ready to upgrade your gadget shopping game with the new energy label!
- Smartphone
- Tablet
- EU
- Sustainable shopping
- Energy label
- Eco-design
- Robustness
- Durability
- Battery longevity
- Repairability
- Spare parts
- Software updates
- Circular economy
- Greenhouse gas emissions
- Brussels
- To contribute to sustainable shopping in the EU, the community policy incorporates an energy label for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets, which also includes details on repairability, spare parts availability, and software updates for prolonged durability.
- While gadgets like smartphones and tablets are getting more advanced with technology, the new eco-design regulations aim to boost their lifespan and reduce their environmental impact, encouraging circular economy principles and meeting the EU's energy efficiency and greenhouse gas emission reduction targets.
