From the article >Nearly 1 billion consumers currently use the Apple lightning port. Bearing that in mind, replacing a billion chargers in a short space of tim

From the article >Nearly 1 billion consumers currently use the Apple lightning port. Bearing that in mind, replacing a billion chargers in a short space of time would overload the electronic waste sector, defeating the motive of the directive in the first place. So what we do is take the plunge anyway. Switch to a universal charger or USB type system. Take all the wasted chargers and then force the companies who created this problem in the first place to split the cost of going to the new system based on % of waste came from their brand. Apple had 1 billion lightning cords thrown away vs say a proprietary charger for Motorola is 100 million. In that scenario Motorola would only be on the hook for slightly less than 10%. Do this with all companies and chargers. The biggest offenders of people who created waste end up paying the most to fix the problem this way. On another tangent, I remember when almost every iteration of a phone had a new type of charger it seemed. You had the wide ones for Motorola, Nokia and whatever else you had, and they ALL were proprietary or you could buy those kits with 10 different adapters/voltage adjustments. I feel we have come a long way with most devices using USB and there are some companies holding onto old practices (apple). I was surprised when the new Nintendo Switch actually charged off of USB and Nintendo didn't force you to have some proprietary charger. I would completely love for there to be a universal standard when it comes to charging and stop more waste and everything could use USB.