Samsung Electronics has began off the brand new decade by successful three prizes that mirror the corporate’s dedication to pursuing sustainable recycling, upcycling and waste administration practices.
At the 2019 Sustainable Materials Management (SMM) Electronics Challenge awards ceremony, hosted by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Samsung acquired the Champion and Tier Awards, and at this yr’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Innovation Awards, Samsung was acknowledged as this yr’s winner for selling environment friendly useful resource use.
Samsung Electronics wins the EPA’s annual SMM Award. Jenni Chun (center-left), Head of Regulatory & Environmental Affairs, Samsung Electronics America, receives the Gold Tier Award. Kyungmo Yang (center-right), Manager of Galaxy Upcycling Program, Samsung Electronics, receives the Cutting Edge Champion Award.
A Winning Commitment to a Circular Economy
The SMM Electronics Challenge, hosted since 2014, is the EPA’s annual awards ceremony recognizing members for his or her dedication to sustainable supplies administration and the accountable recycling, honoring these firms who, within the US, voluntarily have interaction in recycling applications. Honors are awarded in two classes, the Champion Award for merchandise, non-products and new applied sciences which might be harnessed in environmentally aware methods, and the Tier Award for recycling actions. This yr, Samsung received awards in each classes, and on January 8, a number of main Samsung figures attended the SMM Electronics Challenge awards ceremony in Las Vegas.
In the Champion Award class, Samsung acquired its third Cutting-Edge Award for the reason that award’s creation in 2016, which acknowledges members for pioneering concepts in electronics sustainability. The firm was acknowledged for the Galaxy Upcycling mission, a mission devoted to reusing end-of-life cellphones for each environmental safety and societal acquire.
The award-winning Galaxy Upcycling mission transforms out of date cellphones now not in use into internet-of-things (IoT) units with the facility to learn underserved communities; since 2017, the mission has, in partnership with Korean medical researchers, harnessed recycled smartphone units for the event of transportable eye examination tools. In 2017, the mission received the SMM Cutting-Edge Award for the primary time, and final yr equipped 90 transportable ophthalmoscopes to be used in Vietnam, benefitting the lives and imaginative and prescient of round 14,000 residents.
In the Tier Award class, Samsung has, for the sixth yr in a row, been awarded Gold, an honor bestowed upon solely these firms that ship at the very least 96% of all used electronics to licensed third-party recyclers. Samsung was acknowledged for accumulating and recycling 60,000 tons of waste electronics in 2018, together with as soon as once more solely making contracts with solely these distributors licensed by e-Stewards, a third-party certification administration program for electronics recyclers. Furthermore, the corporate actively participates in eCycling, a voluntary e-waste assortment program for firms organized by the CTA (Consumer Technology Association).
Innovating Sustainability
At this yr’s CES in Las Vegas, Nevada, Samsung acquired a variety of honors on the CES Innovation Awards, with services and products from show applied sciences to cellular units awarded for standing out within the trade as main, modern options. Among these, Samsung’s The Serif Eco-Packaging design has been acknowledged for selling the environment friendly use of assets.
The Eco-Packaging design permits customers to upcycle the packaging of a product into small, versatile items of furnishings. Once they’ve assembled their units, customers can repurpose the thick corrugated cardboard packaging into small tables or cabinets, guided by manuals accessible by scanning a QR code on the field. This packaging is to be rolled out with…
