New Bio-Plastic Recyclable Cell Phone

How can you sell more cell phones in such a fierce market? The best solution is to make "green" phones. Samsung, the global Korean consumer electronics corporation, announced during the Seoul World IT Show, their plans to offer two environmentally friendly handsets. The first is the W510. Hazardous heavy metals such as lead are not used in the W510, which is constructed from a corn-based bioplastic. Hg and Cd.

This is the earliest Samsung bioplastic-based telephone. However, At the CES in January, it was discovered that Samsung was among several big consumer electronics manufacturers to utilize the unconventional material. Fujitsu presented a laptop featuring a bioplastic case. Additionally, the 3310 Evolve model, newly introduced by the mobile phone giant Nokia, a portable telephone built in part of biomaterials.

Completely disposing of petroleum-based plastics is a terrific idea, but by now it is well known that corn as a substitute for fuel and plastics is not a sustainable, We hope that Samsung's newer models will use a more sustainable, next-generation bioplastic, even though we understand, the reason behind testing the market for bioplastic with cost-effective corn that is easy to obtain before any decisions are made.

Samsung has come out with a new phone. It is called the F268 and the company confirms that this phone does not contain either PVC (Polyvinyl chloride) or Brominated Flame Retardant, a flame retardant containing bromine (Flame retardants consisting of organic compounds containing bromine). This phone is a positive step in the company's plan to stop using PVC and BFRs in all of its cell phones by the year 2010.

Greenpeace has actually given Samsung high marks as an environmentally-friendly consumer electronics manufacturer. The recent "Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics" is the basis for this. which cites that since March the company has earned a ranking of 7 out of 10. putting it beside the best. Regularly, It also received praise for its planned schedule for phasing out use of PVC and BFR. However, while, in November, Samsung debuted the company's PVC-free LCD panels, though it did lose a few points on the harsh Greenpeace ranking system for failing to incorporate a take-back and recycling program.

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Lucy is a freelance journalist with an interest in Cellular phone recycling.

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