On Thursday, the European Union’s Parliament voted, by 582-40, for a resolution that urges the European Commission to make phone makers conform to a single charger standard.
The reasoning behind the regulation is reduction of electronic waste — 50 million metric tons of e-waste is generated globally per year, the text of the resolution says — and the MEPs would like to see the changes implemented by July 2020. (The EC agreed to do this at a later date, sometime in the third quarter of 2020.)
