Mobile devices Toolkit

Photos: Recycling the mobile mountain

Tags:
Mobile Phone Recycling

Andrew Donoghue ZDNet.co.uk

Published: 04 Apr 2006 12:20 BST

1 ... 7 8 9

NEC has developed the world's first commercially available mobile with a biodegradable cover — created out of plant materials from corn and kenaf, a relative of the hibiscus plant. Scientists make the corn into bio-plastics and add kenaf fibres to make the plastic stronger, tougher and more heat resistant. Hopefully this means the cover won't start to break down during everyday use, only when it's buried.

Did you find this article useful?
432 out of 541 people found this useful

More In Mobile devices

Company/Topic Alerts

Create a new alert from the list below:

Related Jobs

Technical Writer

Middleweight C++ Software Engineers - South Hampshire

Business Analyst - Utilities - Water - 12 month contract

Install Flash Player Plugin

Ofcom to consider customer termination...

Mobile operators already charge each other termination charges -- now Ofcom has called for opinions as to whether end users should be charged. Interesting articles both in the Register... More

1 comment

The Redfly 'Notbook'

When is a netbook (or mini-notebook) not a netbook? When it's a 'notbook' such as Celio's Redfly Mobile Companion, that's when. You might have thought that the idea of a netbook-format... More

1 comment

Nathan Barley's magic hotzone

Via an interesting post on Absolute Gadget, I learned of BT and Fon's plan to distribute 1,000 routers in Shoreditch, East London. The idea, it seems, is to create what BT like to call... More