Samsung provides official recycling figures for Note 7
Wednesday, July 19, 2017 - 09:33:36
While the Note 7 may have been killed off after a battery debacle in 2016, Samsung’s intentions to re-brand and re-release the device as the Note Fan Edition were a beacon of hope for those concerned about the ecological implications of the mass recall.
Now the South Korean firm has revealed the precise volumes of precious minerals it will be recouping from old Note 7 handsets in order to build new devices, according to Tech Radar.
In total, it is expecting that 157 tonnes of expensive metals will be reclaimed from the dismantled Note 7 models. As well as gold and silver, the recovery of cobalt and copper will also take place so that nothing goes to waste.
This is the same process which mobile phones go through when they are sold to recycling companies, meaning that the valuable assets they contain will not simply end up in the bin.
When thinking about the benefits of mobile phone recycling, it is important not to simply consider the value of the minerals within modern handsets, but also the fact that by recovering metals in this way, there is less need to mine the raw materials to build more mobiles.
Gold, silver and other metals which are extracted from old handsets will have a lower carbon footprint, so when they are reused in new devices they help minimise the environmental damage which is caused by the manufacturing process.
Samsung has been making major efforts to undo the damage its reputation suffered when the Note 7 was recalled last year, so providing clear cut figures on recycling like this is a sensible step to take. Enabling the older devices to live on and go towards creating new models makes sense from a financial and ecological standpoint.
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