In a move to inject some sustainability into the usually very un-sustainable world of mobile phones, Sprint and Samsung are introducing a handset made of 80% recycled materials. The phone, made from cornbased bio-plastics will donate $2 dollars from its fifty dollar price tag to The Nature Conservancy’s Adopt an Acre Program and comes fully equipped with webrowser, GPS, 2 mega pixel camera and stereo Bluetooth.
We are not to sure about making phones out of food, but at least it is free from PVC and other harmful materials found in most other electronics. It’s charger consumes 12 times less power than the Energy Star standard for standby power consumption and will alert the user once the phone is fully charged.
Samsung M560 Reclaim will hit the market in mid-August, available in Ocean Blue and Earth Green.
[via:Engadget]
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Corn isn’t food. Or it isn’t just food. Most of the time, it’s plastic, it’s sugar, it’s lots of things. Only sometimes is it food.
August 6th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
Hmmm… fascinating. Given Marshall’s comment re: corn as plastics – I wonder how bio-degradable this is? (Wouldn’t that be a primary reason for doing this?)
It’s interesting problem – some people go through phones so quickly that biodegradable phones would be a huge benefit… Then there are those of us that already keep them until they completely break down (I’ve got a friend’s old phone, so it has alot of years on it!) – I’d worry a bit about a corn-phone possibly breaking down prematurely in these cases (forcing me to get a new one before I normally would).
- Liz (migraine relief girl)
August 7th, 2009 at 10:32 pm