Monday, January 28th 2019
Samsung Announces New Sustainability Policy, Phasing Out Plastic Packaging Materials
This piece of news is slightly off the beaten path for our usual coverage of solely PC hardware or gaming, but I think that Samsung's overall size in the worldwide market merits a headline. Sustainability efforts have been increasing for a number of years now (albeit slower than many of us would like), and Samsung, being the giant corporation that it is with threads in all sorts of product lines, has taken a bold step in achieving environmental sustainability. Plastic used for product packaging is being phased out with recyclable, environmentally-friendly products. Some plastic usages will be kept, though even those will see a revised, recycled-plastic or bioplastic materials.
Samsung has set-up a task force with the sole mission of overseeing design, development, purchase, marketing and quality control for innovative and environment-friendly packaging ideas. The plan has been devised by implementation tiers, with Samsung moving to paper packaging materials certified by forestry initiatives as soon as 2020. By 2030 and counting from 2009, Samsung aims to have used 500 thousand tons of recycled plastics and collected 7.5 million tons of discarded products.
"Samsung Electronics is stepping up in addressing society's environmental issues such as resource depletion and plastic wastes," said Gyeong-bin Jeon, head of Samsung's Global Customer Satisfaction Center. "We are committed to recycling resources and minimizing pollution coming from our products. We will adopt more environmentally sustainable materials even if it means an increase in cost."
Sources:
via ETeknix, Samsung
"Samsung Electronics is stepping up in addressing society's environmental issues such as resource depletion and plastic wastes," said Gyeong-bin Jeon, head of Samsung's Global Customer Satisfaction Center. "We are committed to recycling resources and minimizing pollution coming from our products. We will adopt more environmentally sustainable materials even if it means an increase in cost."
19 Comments on Samsung Announces New Sustainability Policy, Phasing Out Plastic Packaging Materials
To much electronics these days is built to be thrown out if the product fails.
skematic's and a greater availability of replacement Parts at a Reasonable Price would go a long way to reduce waste
also like sam_86314 said just use that kinda plastic.
the worst thing is certain feminine hygyne products have very thin plastic on the actual pad. very annoying. .. and the rest is tmi. lol.
Then you have Apple who have gone a little anti-consumer where it bricks your phone if it detects that one of the parts in your phone doesnt match their part numbers etc etc they have even gone as far as installing a chip in their macbooks that does the same thing which forces you to go directly to them for repairs regardless of how old the device is.
Its been well documented that these 'genius bars' actually know very little about the products and in a lot of cases will exaggerate whatever damage your device has received and been booked into repairs for, for their financial gain.
I watched a video where an apple customer took a macbook to the genius bar after the backlight or screen on her macbook died and nothing could be displayed. Apple charged her over $600 (I think it was closer $700 or maybe even $1000) stating some other damage like water damage had been discovered and thats what it would cost for all the repairs. So she took it to a guy called Louis Rossmann who fixed it for almost nothing. There was no water damage, there was no shorts or fried components, All it was, was the ribbon cable to the screen had come loose.
He has a channel on youtube He has reported on things like that more than once so im guessing its what the apple staff are taught to do.
Then there was that business with Linus Tech Tips. They kept flip flopping on if they would fix it or not, Apple staff would say yes but their supervisor would say no. When Linus tried to chase it up with head office they said they said it would be too costly to repair. Linus offered to pay for the entire cost of repairs which probably would of come to $8000 but they still said no and he couldnt order the part he needed from anywhere else because Apple would stop anyone on their partner programme from ordering parts which they werent qualified to fix.
Its a long story full of bullshittery from Apple but he finally managed to get a replacement part off someone, though the risk is that, if that person who is a legit apple partner and owns a repair shop gets discovered then he will be struck off the list and they wont allow him to repair Apple devices any more....
Its a long long story, but basically, Apple are the Mafia.
but perhaps thats why the 3 phones I bought in Sept could have all fit in 1 box, but instead came in 3 separate, gargantuan giant boxes full of foam, plastic linings, covers, and wraps.... didnt seem very "sustainable" to me :)
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And lets face it even if they didn't their be much higher than some others
Peooplle need too stop buying soda and water, people care until they find out out what they need to do.