How exactly does a company in such a competitive and ruthless market sell more cell phones? 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. Hg and Cd.

This is Samsung's very first phone made from bioplastic. Nevertheless, At the CES in January, Samsumg was not the first or only big-time manufacturer of consumer electronics who utilizes the unconventional material Fujitsu demonstrated a notebook computer with a case made of bioplastic. Furthermore 3310 Evolve has been produced by Nokia, a mobile phone partly made from 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 know, the reason behind testing the market for bioplastic with cost-effective corn that is easy to obtain 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 Polyvinyl chloride, a multi-use petroleum based plastic or BFR (Flame retardants consisting of organic compounds containing bromine). 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 actually given Samsung high marks as an environmentally-friendly consumer electronics manufacturer. This is based on the recent "Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics", which cites that since March the company has earned a ranking of 7 out of 10. putting it beside the best. Consistently, It also received praise for its planned schedule for phasing out use of PVC and BFR. Nevertheless, while Samsung started to introduce into the market its PVC-free LCD panels last November, The Greenpeace ranking system deducted points becaues it did not implement a complete redemption and recycling program.

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