The final score is calculated from the average of five sub-scores.
An interesting initiative It was announced In the future, European mobile phone companies Telefónica, Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telia and Vodafone will distribute ecopoints to dozens of manufacturers selling smartphones.
At a value on the scale of a hundred, they will try to sum up the devices’ environmental footprint from their production to their recycling, helping customers who want to buy the greener phone to choose, forcing manufacturers to be more environmentally conscious. The end result is calculated from five sub-scores: durability, reparability, recycling, climate efficiency and resource efficiency.
In the EA program, Bullitt Group (the manufacturer of CAT and Motorola rugged), Doro, HMD Global (Nokia), Huawei, MobiWire, Motorola / Lenovo, OnePlus, Oppo, Samsung, TCL / Alcatel, Xiaomi and ZTE participate. Apple is the only major manufacturer that has refused to allow service providers to refuse to register their smartphones.
The stickers are expected to be available at mobile outlets in June in the twenty-four European countries they cover.
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