New Bio-plastic Recyclable Cell Phone

By Author: Maria Tillinghous
Total Articles: 33
Comment this article

In today's fierce and competitive market, how can a company sell more cell phones? One answer: produce new "green" phone models. 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 first is the W510. Hazardous heavy metals such as lead are not used in the W510, which is constructed from a corn-based bioplastic. the heavy metals mercury, currently a concern in the consumption of any fish products, and cadmium, a potentially toxic element that internal combustion engines spew.

This is the earliest Samsung bioplastic-based telephone. Nevertheless, Samsung is neither the first nor the only big-time consumer electronics manufacturer that is utilizing the unconventional material - at the CES in January, Fujitsu demonstrated a notebook computer with a case made of bioplastic. Additionally, Nokia has produced the 3310 Evolve,, a mobile phone partly made from biomaterials.

Getting rid of petroleum-based plastics is an excellent proposition, due to current research, it is common knowledge that corn is an ...
... acceptable substitute for fossil fuels and plastics are not a sustainable resource. We hope that Samsung's newer models will be converted to a more sustainable, next generation state of art bioplastic even though we know, the behind-the-scenes decisions about trying out new bioplastic materials made of corn that is inexpensive and easily obtainable before any real 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 (PVC) 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 credited Samsung with good marks for being a consumer electronics manufacturer that is friendly to the environment. This is based on the recent "Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics", which says that the company has received a rankng of 7 out of 10 since March. ranking it near the top. Invariably, it also gathered points for its PVC and BFR end of life date. Nevertheless, while Samsung started to introduce into the market its PVC-free LCD panels last November, though it did lose a few points on the harsh Greenpeace ranking system for failing to incorporate a take-back and recycling program.