Reuse and Recycling Archives - Page 4 sur 5

Fairphone 2 is first smartphone to receive Blue Angel certification
Long-Lasting Design 24 octobre 2016
I’m very proud to share some good news: the Fairphone 2 has now received the Blue Angel certification. With this distinction, our phone joins more than 12,000 products and services that have been singled out for aspiring to better environmental standards. But what’s even more remarkable is the fact ...
En savoir plus
Closing the Loop: The garbage collectors of the mobile industry
Reuse and Recycling 14 juillet 2016
Tons of mobile phones are thrown away every year, in part because we replace them so frequently. Much of this electronic waste (e-waste) ends up in countries with unsafe and unregulated recycling practices, contributing to health and environmental problems. At Fairphone, our aim is to improve the entire lifecycle of ...
En savoir plus
How we’re tackling e-waste with the Fairphone 2
Reuse and Recycling 25 février 2016
With the launch of the new Fairphone 2, the phone itself has gained significant attention for a few of the groundbreaking features that make it more ethical — especially the modular construction and replaceable parts. But these design decisions are just one part of a bigger story: our ambitions ...
En savoir plus
Guest blog. iFixit on Fairphone 2: The first truly smart smartphone
Reuse and Recycling 18 novembre 2015
Editor’s Note: This week we hear from Matthias Huisken, the Director of iFixit Europe. iFixit is a global online repair community renowned for open source repair manuals and product teardowns. At iFixit, we’ve taken apart close to a thousand mobile phones. Here’s one that’s truly different, finally. It does not ...
En savoir plus
Guest blog: Moving Fairphone closer to a circular economy, research and recommendations
Reuse and Recycling 05 août 2015
Earlier this year, I started working with Fairphone to follow up on the research that Merve Guvendik did on Fairphone’s Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and environmental impact, as part of my research with Circle Economy. Fairphone’s goal in the area of lifecycle is to apply the theory of the circular ...
En savoir plus
Guest blog: Latest news on Ghana e-waste collection program
Reuse and Recycling 26 mars 2015
To refresh your memory, Closing the Loop partnered with Fairphone early in 2013 to help us carry out a project to reduce electronic waste, particularly in Africa. We’ve started by collecting scrap phones in the surrounding Accra area of Ghana, which includes Agbogbloshie, one of the most toxic e-waste ...
En savoir plus
Examining the Fairphone’s environmental impact
Reuse and Recycling 22 janvier 2015
Nearly a year ago, I first came to the Fairphone office ready to start my role as a research assistant and dig deeper into the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) work started by my predecessor Artúr Szilágyi. In the meantime, I’ve learned more than I ever anticipated about the first ...
En savoir plus
Guest Blog: Collecting 75,000 scrap phones in Ghana
Reuse and Recycling 21 août 2014
At five o’clock in the morning of 24 July, I got on the flight out of Accra, Ghana back to Amsterdam. Being up that early gave me some time to write this update for you all in the Fairphone community about our exciting progress. So what was I doing in ...
En savoir plus
Next step in Life Cycle Assessment: Inventory Analysis
Reuse and Recycling 20 juin 2014
Fairphone puts social values first. But what about the environment? Over the course of designing the first Fairphone, a number of decisions were made that improved the phone’s environmental impact – some on purpose, some by chance. Keep on reading if you want to learn more! Four phases to completing ...
En savoir plus

Charger d'autres histoires

Newsletter Fairphone