ArticleBase Presents: Samsung W510 Eco-Friendly Phone

How exactly does a company in such a competitive and ruthless market sell more cell phones? One response: manufacture "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. Manufactured from corn-based bioplastic, the W510 is free from risks associated with hazardous heavy metals, like lead. Hg and Cd.

This is Samsung's very first phone made from bioplastic. 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 Nokia has produced the 3310 Evolve,, a portable telephone built in part of 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. We hope that Samsung's newer models will use a more sustainable, next-generation 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. It is called the F268 and the company confirms that this phone does not contain either PVC (Polyvinyl chloride) or BFR (Bromine-based chemical flame retardants). That telephone is an good move in the firm's scheduled phasing out of polyvinyl chloride and brominated flame retardants in all its portable phones no later than the year 2010.

Greenpeace has credited Samsung with good marks for being a consumer electronics manufacturer that is friendly to the environment. The recent "Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics" is the basis for this. which says that the company has received a rankng of 7 out of 10 since March. putting it beside the best. Consistently, it also gathered points for its PVC and BFR end of life date. However, while, in November, Samsung debuted the company's PVC-free LCD panels, it only lost points on the strict Greenpeace ranking system when it faild to install a complete take-back and recycling program.

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Lucy is a freelance journalist with an interest in recycling and envirofone where you can get money for old phones.

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