SAMSUNG REDUCES PLASTIC PACKAGING

SAMSUNG Electronics has announced that it will begin switching to more environmentally friendly packaging formats across its products.

Last year, the company introduced environmentally friendly packaging to its notebook computer line.

“Samsung looks to expand this ‘ecoconscious packaging’ initiative into its wider product line including its mobile devices, wearables, TVs, refrigerators and other home appliance products,” it said.

“Traditionally understood ‘plastic’ packaging is to be replaced for 2019 by moulded pulp (a fusion material that uses no wood fibres and incorporates waste by-products such as sugarcane residue) trays, recycled paper containers and bags made of recycled plastic and bio-based, fossil fuel-free materials like starch.”