Waste recycling: Motorola unveils first mobile phone made with recycled plastic water bottles

MOTO W233 Renew. Photo: Motorola

With the launch of MOTO W233 Renew, Motorola says it has the world’s first carbon neutral phone. The plastic housing is made from plastics comprised of recycled water bottles. “Through an alliance with Carbonfund.org, Motorola offsets the carbon dioxide required to manufacture, distribute and operate the phone through investments in renewable energy sources and reforestation. The phone has earned Carbonfund.org’s CarbonFree® Product Certification”, Motorola said in its press release of 06 Jan 2009.

Motorola says it has reduced size of packaging, made of recycled paper, by 22 percent, and that it provides a postage-paid recycling envelope.

Commenting on the introduction of Renew in his blog, Professor Noah Hall notes: “This is great, but don’t feel like you need to rush out and buy bottled water to keep Motorola supplied with recycled plastic.  With over 8 billion gallons of bottled water sold in the U.S. annually, we should have enough recycled plastic from water bottles to give us a lifetime of cell phones”.

IX Latin-American Workshop and Symposium on Anaerobic Digestion, 18-19 Oct 2008, Easter Island, Chile

Anaerobic digestion represents nowadays one of the most cost-effective alternatives for waste (water) treatment, which has experienced a fast development during the last three decades. This Latin-American Workshop and Symposium will offer a selected program including the latest research findings and technological applications on anaerobic wastewater treatment, solids stabilization and biogas production as a renewal energy source.

This event is addressed to researchers, waste managers, consultants, representatives of both public and private sectors, environmental engineers and other related professionals.

Organised by the International Water Association (IWA).

For more information go to the conference web site