Mobile phone Eco Rating scheme expands to 35 countries - Telefónica

EE, NOS, and Proximus person joined the Eco Rating labelling strategy that was initially launched by Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica (operating nether the O2, Movistar and Vivo brands), Telia Company and Vodafone successful May 2021. Proximus launched the strategy aboriginal 2022 and EE and NOS volition beryllium rolling retired Eco Rating to their customers successful the coming months.

Since launching successful 24 European countries from May 2021, the Eco Rating strategy has further expanded to different 11 countries and is disposable to consumers successful 35 countries crossed Europe, Africa, South America and soon successful Asia/Pacific.

Most cardinal European suppliers are present covered by Eco Rating, owed to extended telco engagement with mobile telephone suppliers. The standing provides incentives to amended the biology show of mobile phones connected the market, illustrated by the summation of the mean Eco Rating people from 74 to 76 retired of a maximum 100 since motorboat 18 months ago.

Through the standing scheme, Eco Rating helps consumers comparison the biology interaction of mobile phones, enabling them to marque much eco-conscious choices. Eco Rating provides consistent, close accusation astatine retail and online connected the biology interaction of producing, using, transporting and disposing of smartphones and diagnostic phones. It looks holistically astatine the full biology footprint.

Eco Rating has launched a caller database to alteration consumers to comparison scores for each assessed devices from the participating suppliers online via www.ecoratingdevices.com/ratings. The database tin beryllium searched and filtered by brand, model, and scores for amended informed determination making.

Eco Rating has developed criteria to beforehand c ratio and e-waste reduction, including actions specified as, alternatives to integrative packaging, improved instrumentality durability, extended warranties and longer attraction support.

With much than 300 phones analyzed by instrumentality beingness rhythm experts astatine the Eco Rating Consortium, an updated scoring methodology is acceptable to beryllium published from January 2023.  The purpose of the update is to incentivize mobile instrumentality manufacturers successful areas with a greater imaginable to improve.

Consumers tin larn much astir the inaugural and spot however the standing is calculated by visiting www.ecoratingdevices.com.

Annex:

The Eco Rating Methodology

Using accusation provided by instrumentality manufacturers, each mobile telephone handset is thoroughly assessed and fixed an wide Eco Rating people (maximum of 100) to awesome the biology show of the instrumentality crossed its full beingness cycle.

Eco Rating applies a accordant valuation methodology arsenic and objectively crossed 19 antithetic criteria, culminating successful a azygous people for each device. In addition, the Eco Rating highlights 5 cardinal aspects of mobile instrumentality sustainability:

• Durability: The robustness of the device, the artillery beingness and the warrant play for the instrumentality and its components.
• Reparability: Covers the easiness with which the instrumentality tin beryllium repaired, including mobile telephone plan and supporting activities that could summation the utile beingness of the merchandise by improving its reparability, reusability and upgradability potential. A higher people indicates however these aspects are supported.
• Recyclability: How good the instrumentality components tin beryllium recovered and disassembled, the provided accusation to let it, and however good materials tin beryllium recycled.
• Climate efficiency: The greenhouse state emissions of the instrumentality during its full lifecycle. The amended the people here, the little the clime impact.
• Resource efficiency: Assesses the interaction caused by the magnitude of scarce earthy materials required by the instrumentality (such arsenic golden for the manufacturing of physics components) towards resources depletion; the amended the people here, the little the interaction connected the availability of materials.

The Eco Rating methodology builds connected manufacture cognition and champion signifier gathered done erstwhile biology labelling initiatives. It has been developed with method enactment and supervision from IHOBE (a publically owned bureau specialized successful Economic Development, Sustainability and the Environment), with the information of instrumentality suppliers, utilizing the latest standards and guidelines from the European Union, ITU-T, ETSI and ISO with caller parameters introduced wherever appropriate.

Eco Rating has assessed phones from 22 participating suppliers: B Mobile, Bullitt Group – Home of CAT and Motorola rugged phones, Crosscall, Doro, Fairphone, Honor, HMD Global – Home of Nokia Phones, Huawei, MobiWire, Motorola / Lenovo, Nothing, Nubia, OnePlus, OPPO, Orange, Realme, Samsung Electronics, Sony, TCL / Alcatel, vivo, Xiaomi and ZTE.

Notes for Editors:

Eco Rating disposable successful the pursuing countries:

Albania, Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Mexico, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, the United Kingdom and Uruguay. In New Zealand successful volition beryllium launched soon.

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