Re: Waste...
The point being, you got the charger with your iPod and you got further chargers with other devices.
The EU wants to remove the charger from the packaging of the products you buy. You buy a good quality charger, once. That's it. You don't buy 10 devices and have 9 redundant chargers kicking around.
We have a couple of phones, fitness trackers, headphones, Fire tablets, Kindles and a few other bits and bods, but for all these devices, we have 2 chargers in the kitchen and one in the bedroom (for the Kindles). That is enough to charge dozen or so devices.
10 - 15 years ago, they'd all have had different connectors and different voltages. The USB standard means that they can all share chargers. If the industry can then decide on a single quick-charging technology, you can even quick-charge everything using a single charger.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
