“We have a process to keep the phones safe to throw away,” says a spokesman for Samsung on Wednesday against Motherboard. Samsung does not clarify in which ways the more than 2 million existing copies of the Note 7 will not throw.
Kyle, Whose, CEO of popular reparatiesite iFixit, fear for the consequences for the environment. Whose points on the many non-recyclable parts of the largely unused devices, such as touchscreens and the cobalt in the batteries.
“These are environmentally seen all very expensive raw materials”, says Whose. “It is very sad to see them all unused, and recycled.”
Special packaging
Motherboard indicates the terugroep procedure of Samsung. Consumers that the Note 7 already had all get a special retourdoos consisting of four layers, which, for safety reasons, not be transported by air should be.
Samsung has stopped on Tuesday permanently with the production and sale of the Note 7, after the aircraft in flames. Why that happened is still under investigation, rumors indicate problems with the battery, and errors in the manufacturing process.
Samsung presented its profit outlook downwards in response to the fiasco. The share price of Samsung drops as a result of the problems, and analysts estimate that the deletion of the Note 7, a sling of at least $ 17 billion (15.4 billion euros) for Samsung.
Explanation: Problems around flammable Note 7
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