How Does A Green Mobile Phone Make Me Eco Friendly?
Sunday, November 6th, 2011
Mobile phones are wonderful, they hold all your friends telephone numbers and details; you can order up a Pizza, use them as a map finder and browse the world around us. They have become an essential must have tool in the modern world. But there are some critical differences one must consider between a green mobile phone and a ‘normal’ phone.
Sad to say there is an environmental impact in owning a mobile phone, one that starts from the cradle to the grave. Mobile phones are just like other manufactured products they contain up to a 1000 components, so they can use a fair amount of resources. Some 1.2 Billion mobiles were sold in 2009, a 5% increase on the year before. If you were to talk on mobile for an hour a day, for a year; that can produce up to a tonne of CO2, which is about the equivalent of a trip by jet from London to New York? And with the rise of the smartphone, it doesn’t look like our need for the handheld wonder is abating?
So what are the benefits of a green mobile phone over their non green cousins?



