GLOBAL – We recently wrote about some things we discovered about Nokia’s attitude towards spreading environmentally sensitive thinking across the company and suppliers. These discoveries were prompted by an article on a phone buy-back scheme we had highlighted and which was called out by some of our colleagues.
What ensued was a fascinating travel through the problems of e-waste and finding out why Nokia does not like to promote buy-back and reuse schemes. Below, we discuss some issues of e-waste and the reasons behind Nokia’s stance. We hope that it helps you understand a problem that is basically invisible to most of us in Europe and North America.
GLOBAL – A couple of weeks ago we posed you the question, what do you think is the most important aspect of eco phones? The poll has now closed, the votes have been tallied up, and the results are in.
Click through to find out what you and your fellow Nokia Conversations readers reckon are the top requirements of an environmentally savvy handset. Continue reading>>
GLOBAL – Welcome to the first ever poll on Nokia Conversations! Each week we’ll be asking you to vote on hot topics. The ambition is that your responses will help steer some of what we write about here – no doubt there will be controversial consensuses and surprise results, both of which will lead us to probe deeper and write follow-up stories on the subjects that interest you most.
Plus, of course, we want you to suggest poll questions (visit our suggest a topic page) – questions you’d like seen answered by the Nokia Conversations community. So to kick things off we thought we’d run a poll on eco phones and ask what do you think is most important?
ISTANBUL, Turkey – Nokia is tremendously aware that improving sustainability and raising eco awareness, when it comes to mobile devices, can’t solely be addressed with the introduction of environmentally-minded products and practices – it has to stretch further than this, both internally, externally via projects such as we:recycle, and more gradually through the education of children and projects such as the recent Dreams Workshop recycle-themed art exhibition in Turkey.
Read on to find out more about the Recycling Dreams exhibition, and click through to see a gallery of the artwork created by the kids involved.
MALAYSIA – If all of the 3 billion people in the world who own a mobile phone, recycled just one used device, it would have the same effect as taking 4 million cars off the road.
That’s according to Nokia Malaysia’s Nellie Abdullah who’s Nokia’s local environmental coordinator. She was talking to ZDNet writer Lee Min Keong at the launch of a new recycling initiative being trilled out there, using Kiosks to collect the phones.
LONDON, UK – I was chatting to the team on Nokia Conversations earlier this week about a story that popped up elsewhere that I wanted to respond to, and quite rightly James simply said “hey, why don’t you post a story here”. So here I am. Oh, I’m Mark Squires, Head of Social Media at Nokia, by the way.
INTERNATIONAL – Earlier this month James wrote an interesting piece on how Nokia’s wider recycling values are being applied internally. Continuing this thread, this week I was pointed in the direction of a smart internal website at Nokia that builds on this ethos. Simply called Connect to Protect, Nokia has set up a dedicated site that’s essentially a one-stop resource for environmental issues relating not only to Nokia as a business, but also to employees’ private lives.
INTERNATIONAL – Last week we hit you with stacks of news on Nokia’s new recycling initiatives, following its global survey that highlighted that only 3% of us recycle our old mobiles. It’s been great to see many of you posting insightful, positive and passionate comments on the subject. Another exciting aspect is Nokia is really practicing what it preaches, pushing the mobile recycling agenda internally.
INTERNATIONAL – Yesterday’s release of Nokia’s recycling survey results has struck a collective eco nerve across the web. Yes, the results of the survey weren’t by any means pretty, but there’s no hiding from the fact that these are the cold hard facts and that it’s this reality that is sparking awareness, which has got to be a great thing. Especially, considering the results showed that almost half of us don’t even know we can recycle mobile phones, with most of those that do not knowing how.
GLOBAL – We recently wrote about some things we discovered about Nokia’s attitude towards spreading environmentally sensitive thinking across the company and suppliers. These discoveries were prompted by an article on a phone buy-back scheme we had highlighted and which was called out by some of our colleagues.
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