According PC World, Samsung has introduced three new mobile handsets that are stated to be environment friendly handsets constructed from ‘green’ materials for their exterior and the insides of these phone are made from recycled material.
These three new phones are the F268, released in China; the W510, for Korea; and the E200 Eco, for Europe. The entire outer shells of these handsets are made from ‘bio-plastic’ made from corn.
As per the post, “Forty to 50 percent of all the plastic in the phone is bio-plastic, with the rest of the plastic required from traditional materials for rigidity, a Samsung spokesperson said at the company’s venue on the Olympic Green in Beijing. The phones’ circuit boards lack brominated flame retardants and polyvinyl chlorides, both toxic plastic materials. All three will reach their intended markets next month.”
According to Samsung, “The company is also developing micro fuel cells that would power handsets with hydrogen, and operates handset recycling programmes for phones of all brands in Korea, China, the US and Canada. Materials from these phones are recycled as much as possible and reused in the manufacture of new phones.”