Bio-Plastic Biodegradable Phone

In today's fierce and competitive market, how can a company sell more cell phones? One answer: produce new "green" phone models. Samsung, the global Korean consumer electronics corporation, announced during the Seoul World IT Show, their plans to offer two environmentally friendly handsets. The W510 is first. The W510 is constructed from a corn-based bioplastic and is free from hazardous heavy metals such as lead, Hg and Cd.

This is the first bioplastic-based phone from Samsung. 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 showed off a laptop with 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. We hope that Samsung's newer models will use a more sustainable, next generation state of art bioplastic even though we understand, 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. It is called the F268 and the company confirms that this phone does not contain either PVC Polyvinyl chloride, a multi-use petroleum based plastic or Brominated Flame Retardant, a flame retardant containing bromine (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 actually given Samsung high marks as an environmentally-friendly consumer electronics manufacturer. This according to "Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics, which cites that since March the company has earned a ranking of 7 out of 10. putting it beside the best. Consistently, it also gathered points for its PVC and BFR end of life date. Nevertheless, while, in November, Samsung debuted the company's PVC-free LCD panels, though it did lose a few points on the harsh Greenpeace ranking system for failing to incorporate a take-back and recycling program.

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Lucy is a freelance journalist with an interest in recycling. For cash offers for mobiles check out envirofone.

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