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Samsung Eco-Friendly Phone

By: Lucy Evans

In today's fierce and competitive market, how can a company sell more cell phones? The best solution is to make "green" phones. The global Korean consumer electronics corporation Samsung announced at the Seoul World IT Show that it plans to begin offering two environmentally-friendly handsets. The W510 is first. Manufactured from corn-based bioplastic, the W510 is free from risks associated with hazardous heavy metals, like lead. Hg and Cd.

This is the first bioplastic-based phone from Samsung. However, At the CES in January, Samsumg was not the first or only big-time manufacturer of consumer electronics who utilizes the unconventional material Fujitsu presented a laptop featuring a bioplastic case. Furthermore, 3310 Evolve has been produced by Nokia, a mobile phone partly made from biomaterials.

Completely disposing of petroleum-based plastics is a terrific idea, due to current research, it is common knowledge that corn is an acceptable substitute for fossil fuels and plastics are not a sustainable resource. Our hope is that Samsung's later models will convert to a more sustainable, next generation state of art bioplastic even though we know, the thought process behind testing out the market for bioplastic with cheap and readily available corn before any decisions are made.

Samsung has come out with a new phone. The company corroborates that this telephone, named the F268, does not contain PVC or (Polyvinyl chloride) or brominated flame retardants (Brominated flame retardants). 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.

Samsung has received accolades from Greenpeace for it's environmentally-friendly electronics. 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. ranking it near the top. Invariably, it also gathered points for its PVC and BFR end of life date. However, while, last November, Samsung began bringing to market PVC-free LCD panels. The Greenpeace ranking system deducted points becaues it did not implement a complete redemption and recycling program.

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Lucy is a freelance journalist with an interest in recycling and schemes where you can recycle your old mobile phones for cash.

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