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How can you sell more cell phones in such a fierce market? The best solution is to make "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 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 the earliest Samsung bioplastic-based telephone. On the other hand 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 demonstrated a notebook computer with a case made of bioplastic. Furthermore the 3310 Evolve model, newly introduced by the mobile phone giant Nokia, 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 state of art bioplastic even though we understand, 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. Assuring the public that the mobile doesn't contain the nasty petrochemical PVC, the F268 (PVC) or BFR (Flame retardants consisting of organic compounds containing bromine). 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. placing it among the best. Regularly, it also gathered points for its PVC and BFR end of life date. On the other hand while, last November, Samsung began bringing to market 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 schemes where you can recycle your old mobile phones for cash.
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