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In the news release, Back Market Calls For Legally Mandated 10-Year Device Standard With Launch of 'Mine My Phone' a New Platform Exposing The Hidden Costs of Smartphone Extraction, issued 23-Sep-2026 by Back Market over PR Newswire, we are advised by a representative of the company that changes have been made. The complete, corrected release follows, with additional details at the end: Coalition call anchors on global platform revealing the hidden extraction costs behind every smartphone device PARIS and NEW YORK, Sept. 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Do you know how heavy your phone truly is? A 200-gram smartphone requires more than 266 kilograms of raw materials extraction. At a global scale, more than 319 million tons 1 of upstream materials are extracted annually to manufacture the world's smartphones alone, the equivalent of more than 900 Empire State Buildings' 2 worth of material each year. That extraction is compounded by a typical 2- to 2.5-year upgrade cycle. Today, Back Market is calling for a legally mandated 10-year device standard - covering durability, repairability and long-term software support - as a key effective lever to reduce the extraction demand driving these costs. Keeping a smartphone in productive use for 10 years instead of 2.5 years can avoid approximately 757 kilograms of raw material extraction per device 3. Research 4 suggests that once people...
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To build that understanding at scale, Back Market has launched Mine My Phone ( www.minemyphone.com ), a public interest platform revealing the environmental, human and geopolitical costs behind modern devices - think Patagonia's Footprint Chronicles, but built towards a single outcome: public and regulatory support for a 10-year device standard.
