The European Union will soon require smartphone manufacturers to let users replace their batteries.

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Smartphone manufacturers make their batteries hard to replace. Tough new EU rules will change that. 

 

The European Union will soon require smartphone manufacturers to let users replace their batteries.

 

The tough new rules - endorsed by the European Parliament this week - could save millions of phones from landfill.

Every year, more than 150 million smartphones are thrown away. Making batteries more easy to replace could stem this deluge of e-waste.

 

Existing phones seal away batteries within the tablet, meaning replacing them can be nearly as expensive as buying a new phone.

The new measures will help break that cycle of rampant consumption, MEP Achille Variati declared.