Samsung Creates….and Samsung Destroys
Awww…they make plants now.
My boy Sammy is really making some new ground this past year or so moving into new markets with its fuel cells, iPhone-clones, and more recently, netbooks. Now beginning Oct 1st, they’re foraying into the new current hotness trend that’s taking over western civilization – GREEN CONSUMERISM! With all the new products they’re creating, they must be running out of raw materials right? Where do we get more? From OLD materials! I do applaud them for making the effort and it does make sense I suppose with this new scheme they’re calling Recycling Direct. Unfortunately, this helps but a small subset of consumers, namely the ones that bought Samsung’s products to begin with as that is the only type they will accept for free (there is a fee for other brands). I can see the conversation going like this :
“Hi, I’d like to recycle my old cell phone.”
“Is it a Samsung?”
“No, it’s a Nokia.”
“So?”
“You will have to pay a fee for us to take Non-Samsung products.”
“Oh ok. I’ll just recycle it into this garbage can here. I don’t think it will charge me anything.”
Oh well. I guess you can’t win them all. There will be fixed dropoff points in all 50 states that coincide with other recycling programs in the area. Now get out there and buy Samsung!
BONUS : Did you know you can mine bars of gold out of old cell phones?
[Recycling Direct Via Crave]
Posted September 9, 2008 - Filed In Eternal Leds, LED News
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