There is a chance in four so that you have an unused phone hanging out in one of your drawers. This is what the ARCEP 2025 digital barometer learns from us in its focus on the digital environmental footprint.
“27 % of households keep at least one phone without using it, 24 % a television, and 23 % a computer“, Note the hexagonal regulatory authority. But despite these promotions which may seem important, the collector of French and French is calming.
Drawers that empty
Indeed, the average number of unused digital devices in an average home is only 1.8 against 2.6 in 2022 and 2.4 in 2023. A fall of 25 % in a year in short. A trend that even lowers the average number of devices with a screen per household which drops to 9.6 in 2024 (against more than 10 last year).
Unsurprisingly, it is still the smartphone sector that accumulates the most unused devices (0.5 per household), followed by televisions, tablets and laptops (0.3 per household for each). The game consoles and connected watch or bracelet close the walk with 0.2 fireplaces per household.
Unfortunately, ARCEP does not detail the reasons that pushed the French and the French to clean up in their unused electronic devices. The telecoms regulatory authority is content to specify that “the drop in the number of unused equipment […] can partly be explained by a lower conservation duration of this unused equipment than before“. Logic.
Repair, reuse, recycle
No doubt that the second -hand and reconditioned industry, now well established in France, convinces more and more people to get rid of their devices to offer them a second life. Recovery offers among operators or large brands are becoming more and more frequent and more and more attractive.
If you do not have a way to directly give your electronic equipment a second life, it is easy to find collection points specializing in electronic equipment. Recall that faced with an unused electronic device, the three good gestures are: repair, reuse, recycle.
