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Greenpeace protests push Samsung to recycle Note 7 devices
After months of pressure and protests of Greenpeace, Samsung finally published a plan to recycle and relaunch Galaxy Note 7 devices that have been recalled due to battery faults. Worldwide, 2.5 million Galaxy Note 7…
The impact of 10 years of smartphone production
Over 7 billion smartphones have been produced since 2007. These smartphones have changed the world in many positive ways, but the manufacturing of the phones has a devastating impact on our planet. Greenpeace states in…
Greenpeace has been calling on IT companies to switch to renewable energy
Since 2010, Greenpeace has been calling on major internet companies to power their data centers on renewable energy. Since then, there has been a real race to adopt renewable energy. On January 10, Greenpeace released…
Report on ‘Resource Efficiency in the ICT Sector’ identifies a lot of room for improvement
A newly released research report from Greenpeace Germany and the Öko-Institute gives a comprehensive overview of the resource related issues of smartphone and tablet production, use and recycling. The report, titled ‘Resource Efficiency in the…
Phone companies release too many new models, say consumers
A survey commissioned by Greenpeace shows that the majority of consumers think that phone manufacturers release too many new models. Almost half said that they agreed that companies should take more responsibility to support recycling….
New Greenpeace report ‘Greener Gadgets: Designing the future’
Since 2006, Greenpeace has been campaigning to green our electronics, challenging the sector’s leading companies to reduce their environmental footprint and meet the growing demand for greener devices. From acting to combat climate change by…
Green electronics – the search continues
Since August 2006 Greenpeace has assessed the environmental policies of consumer electronics companies through its “Guide to Greener Electronics”. Initially this quarterly publication focused on leading computer and mobile phone producers and their policies with…