BRUSSELS, March 30 — Smartphones, clothes and furniture will have to become longer-lasting and easier to repair and recycle under new sustainability rules proposed by the European Union.
The European Commission today responded with proposals to require products sold in the EU to comply with standards on circularity, meaning they are durable, can be reused, repaired and recycled, and contain recycled materials. Such rules currently apply to the energy performance of white goods — using an A to G label to help consumers choose less energy-intensive products. That helped save around €120 billion on energy bills in 2021, the Commission said, going some way to shield Europeans from soaring power prices.
“The document leaves most of the key details to the delegated acts that the will work on in the coming years,” Joan Marc Simon, executive director of Zero Waste Europe said, adding the proposal also had “great potential impact”.
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