Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I move the motion, as amended:

That the Senate—

(a)

notes that the incompatibility of chargers for mobile phones is a major environmental problem that unnecessarily generates significant amounts of electronic waste;

(b)

acknowledges that it is an inconvenience for Australian consumers to acquire a new charger and dispose of the current one each time they want to acquire a new phone;

(c)

recognises that this problem can be fixed by the mobile phone industry working together to harmonise mobile phone chargers; and

(d)

calls on the Government to examine the harmonisation of mobile phone chargers in agreement with the mobile phone industry, similar to the agreement that has been reached in Europe.

Question agreed to.