Ten companies producing mobile phones June 29, submitted a memorandum, which pledged to bring into the territory of the European Union, only phones with the same chargers. Since 2010, sold in the EU phone chargers are equipped with micro-USB connector.
The list of signatories included: Nokia, Samsung, Apple, Sony Ericsson and Texas Instruments.Motorola, LG, NEC, Qualcomm, Research in Motion (RIM, produces communicators Blackberry).
According to the European Commission, this decision will make life easier for users of cellular services and reduce the amount of garbage dumped from the old charges.
"Today the EU - an abundance of charges. Many of them work only with one particular phone model. Almost every household has an excessive number of" zaryadnikov ", which several thousand tons of garbage a year," - said the European Commission.
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