Final up to date: April twenty fifth, 2024 at 13:18 UTC+02:00
Samsung will lengthen its recycling and waste assortment efforts to a few extra Latin American nations. Throughout Earth Day earlier this week, the corporate introduced that it’s going to run its waste assortment program in 13 nations as a substitute of 10.
Via its prolonged efforts, Samsung’s new objective for 2024 is to gather a minimal of 14,183 tons of digital waste in Latin America. In 2023, Samsung Recycling collected 11,280 tons of e-waste, that means that the corporate goals for a 25.7% year-on-year enchancment.
Extra assortment containers in Samsung shops
At current, the Samsung Recycling program is obtainable in Latin American nations, together with Brazil, Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador, Guatemala, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, and Peru. The corporate will lengthen this system to Paraguay, Bolivia, and the Dominican Republic.
Samsung Recycling permits individuals to securely eliminate small and medium-sized shopper electronics at assortment containers in Samsung shops. Samsung accepts e-waste from any model and units, resembling headphones, batteries, chargers, smartphones, and laptops.
The corporate additionally goals to scale back digital waste by its Repara Contigo (Self-Restore) program, which went reside in Latin America final 12 months.
In its latest announcement, Samsung confirmed it’ll additional increase the Self-Restore program to cowl all of Latin America by the top of 2024. It’s going to additionally add extra units to this system, together with the Galaxy S23 collection, the Galaxy Z Flip 5, and the Galaxy Z Fold 5.
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