Samsung To Replace Plastic Packaging With Sustainable Materials

A lot of companies are focusing on sustainability these days. For example Apple has been trying to make all of its operations as green as possible, whether it be how they power their offices, to the materials they use for their products, and also to the packaging that they use for their products, like the iPhone, iPad, MacBook, and so on.

It turns out that Samsung is also interested in a greener future as the company has announced that they plan on replacing the plastic materials that are used in their packaging to more sustainable materials. This is expected to be a gradual transition so not all of Samsung’s products will be seeing these changes just yet.

According to Samsung, “For mobile phone, tablet and wearable products, Samsung will replace the plastic used for holder trays with pulp molds, and bags wrapping accessories with eco-friendly materials. Samsung will also alter the phone charger design, swapping the glossy exterior with a matte finish and eliminating plastic protection films, reducing the use of plastics.”

They add, “Under the company’s circular economy policy, Samsung Electronics has set a mid-term implementation plan to only use paper packaging materials certified by forestry initiatives by next year. By 2030, Samsung aims to use 500 thousand tons of recycled plastics and collect 7.5 million tons of discarded products (both cumulative from 2009).”

Tyler Lee
Categories: General, Green
Tags: Samsung