Targeting Planned Obsolescence

The e u. Is promising make a law to mandate usb c for charging new phones in an attempt to reduce waste. But if someone's really concerned with waste among the smart phone industry, planned obsolescence is the thing to go after. As electronic devices become common in more sectors of daily life via the internet of things, the overall share of global energy use that goes to making new versions of old products that could still be working, but designed to break, is quite depressing.