Earth Day 2008: Are You Green?
Motorola told Phone Scoop that it is always working to improve the environmental profile of its products. It also said it is a strong proponent and supporter of global environmental sustainability and recycling programs.
Motorola tries to make it easy for consumers to hand back their mobile phones for recycling in the U.S. Anyone can go to motorola.com/recycle to print a postage-paid label for returning their phones (any brand) to Motorola. Through the U.S. Race to Recycle program it also encourages school children to collect and return mobile phones as a fundraiser. Motorola pays the schools up to $21,000 per year for phones they return to the company.
Motorola said that it considers everything about how its phones are designed and packaged. It considers waste, energy, material content, packaging, upgradeability, reuse and recycle. Over the last several years, Motorola has reduced the mass of its portfolio of devices by 6.5 percent. It has also removed 99 percent of the lead that used to be found in its products.
Bringing up one of the points we've already discussed, Motorola has taken a close look at its phone chargers. According to Motorola, most of the energy used by mobile phone chargers occurs in standby mode, or when the charger is plugged in but not charging a phone. We already know that that is wasteful. With that in mind, Motorola has reduced the average power draw of its chargers (in stand-by mode) by 70 percent. Motorola says that every single charger it sells with its phones, headsets and other accessories are Energy Star compliant.
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