According to the recommendation of the EU Commission, cash rewards or deposit systems should boost the recycling of old technical devices such as mobile phones and laptops. Accordingly, these incentives or rebates and vouchers should target small consumer electronic devices, the Brussels authority announced on Friday. It refers to both still functioning and broken devices that can nevertheless be resold, reused or repaired.
According to the authority, this should be financed either with funds from the public purse or by obligatory requirements for operators of take-back systems – or both.
