Vodafone targets smartphone recycling, repair - Mobile World Live

Vodafone Group unveiled a three-year programme to trade-in, recycle, refurbish oregon repair smartphones crossed Europe and Africa portion besides raising funds for conservation organisation WWF.

All of the phones collected during programme volition spot £1 oregon the section equivalent donated by Vodafone to WWF for projects astir the world.

Vodafone stated the 1 cardinal phones for the satellite programme volition enactment its extremity to trim its c emissions to nett zero by 2040. The strategy volition besides assistance destruct e-waste and make a much circular system for mobile phones, it explained.

The relation cited a lifecycle appraisal by Erwann Fangeat, ADEME, et al which showed buying a refurbished smartphone could prevention astir 50kg of c dioxide equivalent (CO2e), lowering the publication to clime alteration by 87 per cent implicit a newly-manufactured instrumentality portion besides removing the request to extract 76.9kg of earthy materials.

Vodafone’s programme besides includes apps designed to assistance its customers marque sustainable choices, on with projects successful South Africa, Germany and the UK which usage mobile exertion to assistance code conservation and sustainability challenges.

Orange and Swisscom announced recycling schemes earlier this year.

Earlier this month, manufacture radical the GSMA claimed changes to mobile telephone recycling rates could chopped up to 21.4 cardinal tonnes of CO2 emissions annually by 2030.

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