‘Recall Note 7 is disaster for the environment’ – RTL Z

Samsung’s decision to the 2.5 million produced Galaxy Note 7′s destruction is a disaster for the environment.

That argues the site Motherboard. Manufacturers are at this moment still very bad in the recycling of smartphones. Of the more than fifty elements that are there in Note 7, the according Motherboard only in a small part as possible for recycling.

The smart phones are not repaired or gerefurbished. Samsung is, after all, is not that the devices ever come on the market. Best sin. Especially because for the production of smartphones a lot of raw material must be gemijnd. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers calculated in 2013 that, for one smartphone about 75 kilos of raw materials are needed. When the Galaxy Note 7 will be that the quantity is likely to be even higher: indeed, it is one of the top models of the moment.

During the recycling are materials like indium (used in touch screens), neodymium (for the magnets in the speakers and microphone) and cobalt (for the batteries) are lost. Piece by piece, rare materials, often under harsh conditions should be gemijnd. Cobalt is notorious because when the win in Congo often child slaves are used. Normally, smartphones are only after years of use recycled. The devices are first gerefurbished, so that they can be sold to insurers (which they again provide people who their insured smartphone in the toilet dropping) and to users in developing countries.

Source: Bright.nl. Every Monday at 22: 00 Bright TV on RTL Z

Source • Bright.nl / Maarten Reijnders