ESPOO, Finland - We’ve already seeing from the survey results today how shocking the rate of phone recycling is around the world. Being one to practice what it preaches, Nokia has been building awareness of phone recycling throughout its offices. Phone recycling bins have been widely used in Nokia offices for a long while now, but recently a new initiative was launched in Nokia House, Espoo.
INTERNATIONAL – Platinum. Gold. Copper. Turns out your old Nokia is an eco treasure trove plum for plundering. In fact, recycling your retired handset could mean more saxophones, kettles and dental fillings (not so great) for all of us, without having to bother Mother Earth for yet more raw materials. That is if we all get stuck in, and start recycling our old phones. See, Nokia has today published a global consumer survey on recycling, having interviewed 6,500 people in 13 countries, and the results are pretty eye-opening with only 3% of us recycling our redundant mobiles.
ESTONIA – Like a lot of countries, rubbish is a bit of a problem in Estonia. Not only is fly-tipping a big issue, but typically only 10 per cent of rubbish is recycled. Recently a new civic initiative dubbed “Let’s Do It! 2008″
was kicked off by Estonian tech millionaires Ahti Heinla and Rainer Nolvak. Nokia contributed 200 GPS-enabled devices to help the project.
GLASTONBURY, England – The festival might be over, and the fields clear of tents but that doesn’t mean we have to forget about it. As previously reported here, to support the Love of the Farm – Leave no trace project, a moblog has been set up to document the happenings of the UK bestest summer music festival.
GLOBAL – With the mobile phone becoming an integral part of our everyday life, the notion of handset etiquette and how we use it in different social and public situations is still highly relevant.
INTERNATIONAL – Recycling is a pretty big thing in our house. We do the usual of splitting out those things which don’t need to go to landfill and composting stuff that’ll help the plants grow. When it comes to electronics though, the concept of recycling is completely alien. My old phone collection is ever-expanding (my kit cupboard is still stuffed with 10-year-old devices). Why? I have no idea. For some reason I just don’t think of phones (or other CE kit) as being something that should, or even could, be recycled.
UGANDA, Africa – Keeping an eye on the environment doesn’t just mean sorting the waste in countries where its produced most. Nokia’s take-back recycling scheme has just expand into Uganda in East Africa, the fifth country in as many months to introduce the scheme in Africa.
RANTHAMBORE, India – Nokia has teamed up with World Wide Fund for Nature – India to support a tiger conservation programme in the country. The tie-up is an extension of an existing relationship with WWF which has seen Nokia’s involvement in a number of conservation programmes around the world. What makes this one interesting though is the involvement of people. No, it isn’t just about the tigers.
USA – Nokia USA has come up with a new initiative to save old mobiles from the landfill and instead recycle them and conserve natural resources.
Dubbed We Recycle the process is super simple and we reckon will prove really popular.
LONDON, England – Our mates at SmartPlanet.com have been playing with
the all new Nokia 3110 Evolve – the first Nokia device to use
bio-plastics.
As SmartPlanet editor Adam Vaughan describes it “a phone
so green, it makes the Incredible Hulk look positively lime coloured”.
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