French consumers encouraged to stop spending on new smartphones

In France, a number of startups have been lobbying the government to start introducing legislation to encourage consumers to shift away from new mobiles. — Bloomberg

France is preparing incentives for consumers to shift spending habits to used electronics, in an attempt to lower the impact on the environment and provide a boost to local e-commerce startups.

The government said it will deploy a scoring system on devices’ re-usability from January, and will set aside €21mil (RM102.55mil) from its stimulus plan to fund re-usability startups and projects.