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In today's fierce and competitive market, how can a company sell more cell phones? One response: manufacture "green" phones. Samsung, the global Korean consumer electronics corporation, announced during the Seoul World IT Show, their plans to offer two environmentally friendly handsets. The first is the W510. The W510 is constructed from a corn-based bioplastic and is free from hazardous heavy metals such as 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 Samsung's very first phone made from bioplastic. On the other hand At the CES in January, it was discovered that Samsung was among several big consumer electronics manufacturers to utilize the unconventional material. Fujitsu presented a laptop featuring a bioplastic case. Furthermore, 3310 Evolve has been produced by Nokia, a portable telephone built in part of biomaterials. Removing petroleum-based plastics is a valuable proposal, however, it is currently known that plastics are not sustainable, but corn can be a replacement for fuel. We hope that Samsung's newer models will use a more sustainable, futuristic bioplastic, although 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 (PVC) or BFR (Brominated 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 credited Samsung with good marks for being a consumer electronics manufacturer that is friendly to the environment. This according to "Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics, which says that the company has received a rankng of 7 out of 10 since March. ranking it near the top. Regularly, it also garnered leading points for its PVC and BFR phase-out timeline. On the other hand while Samsung started to introduce into the market its PVC-free LCD panels last November, 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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Maria is a freelance journalist with an interest in recycling and envirophone
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