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Samsung Is Ditching Plastic Packaging In Favor of More Sustainable Materials (theverge.com)
In a press release, Samsung said that it will be replacing plastic packaging with "environmentally sustainable elements" beginning this year. The Verge reports: The company announced today that it will replace the plastic used in phones, tablets and wearables for molds and accessory bags made with "eco-friendly materials." The company also says that it will also change the design for its phone chargers to reduce the use of plastics, "swapping the glossy exterior with a matte finish." The company will also replace plastic bags used to protect its air conditioners, refrigerators, TVs, and washing machines with recycled materials and bioplastics that come from non-fossil fuel sources. Finally, the company will begin using paper that's been certified by "global environmental organizations" in its manuals by next year.
Gyeong-bin Jeon the head of Samsung's Global Customer Satisfaction Center, says that the company is working to address "society's environmental issues such as resource depletion and plastic wastes," and that it wants to minimize the waste that it produces. In making the shift, Samsung pledges to use 500 thousand tons of recycled plastics and to collect 7.5 tons of discarded products by 2030.
Gyeong-bin Jeon the head of Samsung's Global Customer Satisfaction Center, says that the company is working to address "society's environmental issues such as resource depletion and plastic wastes," and that it wants to minimize the waste that it produces. In making the shift, Samsung pledges to use 500 thousand tons of recycled plastics and to collect 7.5 tons of discarded products by 2030.
I mean, I might be willing to pay "Greater than iDevice prices" if they used the right packaging.
Take for example, if they made the packaging out of the tanned hides of plutocratic executives. I would pay top dollar for a phone wallet sewn from Mark Zuckerburg's pasty white skin. If I cant get it in that fashion, I would settle for Larry Ellison, or Brian Roberts, but that last one is pushing it. If you can somehow swing regulators, I would be willing to pay double for an Ajit Pai packaging.
Now, to be sure they arent pulling a fast one, I need some DNA evidence to validate the packaging's origins. We can't have them using some 3rd world country as a resource to defraud the public, after all.