GSMA Publishes Vision for a ‘Circular Economy’ of Mobile Devices - NextBillion

In the lead-up to COP27, the GSMA has published a new, semipermanent imaginativeness for however the mobile manufacture tin summation the circularity of its proviso and accumulation chains for mobile devices.

The GSMA’s Strategy Paper for Circular Economy: Mobile Devices lays retired the pursuing imaginativeness for the industry:

Devices with arsenic agelong a beingness arsenic possible,
made with 100% recyclable and recycled content,
100% renewable energy,
and wherever nary instrumentality ends up arsenic waste

This ambition is backed up by a recently developed ‘circularity model’ for the mobile industry, which lays retired the principles that operators should see arsenic they purpose to physique a circular proviso and manufacturing concatenation by 2050, based connected 2 overarching concepts of “maximised longevity” and “zero waste”.

Steven Moore, Head of Climate Action at GSMA and Mobile Sector Lead for the UN Climate Champions said: “The mobile manufacture is making existent advancement connected circularity, but there’s a batch much to bash to trim the biology interaction of devices we trust connected each time to enactment connected. By mounting retired a caller imaginativeness of systemic alteration for the sector, we’re laying the groundwork for the mobile manufacture to trim worldly discarded and summation the longevity of devices.”

Erik Wottrich, Head of Sustainability astatine Tele2 who led the improvement of the strategy insubstantial said: “An accrued circularity for devices has a immense imaginable to trim antagonistic biology impact, and astatine the aforesaid clip to alteration caller concern models that tin make caller concern opportunities. This is simply a large measurement guardant for america arsenic an industry, but determination is inactive overmuch enactment to beryllium done. Tele2 is arrogant to person led the improvement of the strategy insubstantial arsenic we are committed to advancing circular system by processing caller lawsuit offerings based connected a circular concern model, which volition beryllium cardinal for america to trim our antagonistic clime interaction and to execute our scope 3/value-chain science-based target.

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