Nokia to release 40 recyclable phones

Written by Meraj Chhaya on May 22, 2008 – 10:21 pm

This year Nokia will announce 40 mobile phones made out of biodegradable components. They will contain minimum amounts of toxic products, and one of the main culprits in terms of harmful substances are batteries.

D Shivakumar, VP and managing director, Nokia India, told Business Standard: “We will be using biodegradable phone covers, recyclable battery designs that use less harmful toxic materials and energy efficient accessories for all our forthcoming phones. Already, we have eliminated the use of PVC (polyvinyl chloride) in all our phones.”

“The consumer simply places the contents in the bag and then puts it in their mailbox. We are evaluating similar refurbishment processes for India, which is the second-largest telecom market,” added Shivakumar. “We are also hopeful of reducing the no load power consumption — the power wasted when a charger is left in a live power socket — by a further 50 per cent by 2010.”

Nokia will add green rubbish bins to all its stores so that consumers can deposit their phones in them, so that they will be later recycled. An example of how recycled a phone can be is the Nokia 3110, which is more than 65% recyclable.

Nokia will please environmental activist groups such as Greenpeace, but most importantly will protect the Earth.

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Source: Business Standard via Thumb Report