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New Samsung Ecological Mobile Phone

How exactly does a company in such a competitive and ruthless market sell more cell phones? One response: manufacture "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 the very first. Manufactured from corn-based bioplastic, the W510 is free from risks associated with hazardous heavy metals, like lead. 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 Samsung's very first phone made from bioplastic. Nevertheless, 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. 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, however, it is currently known that plastics are not sustainable, but corn can be a replacement for fuel. Our hope is that Samsung's later models will convert to a more sustainable, next generation state of art bioplastic although 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. The company corroborates that this telephone, named the F268, does not contain PVC or Polyvinyl chloride, a multi-use petroleum based plastic or Brominated Flame Retardant, a flame retardant containing bromine (Bromine-based chemical flame retardants). This telephone is a leap forward in the company's project to cease the use of PVC and BFRs in all of its mobile telephones by 2010.

Samsung has received accolades from Greenpeace for it's environmentally-friendly electronics. 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. Regularly, it also garnered leading points for its PVC and BFR phase-out timeline. Nevertheless, 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 envirophone.com.

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