Samsung: increase the utilization rate of recycled plastics for its smartphones to 100% for the first launch of the Magi S23 series by 2050

CTOnews.com February 13 news, according to Yonhap news agency, Samsung Electronics Mobile Business (MX) module design team leader Park Sung-sun (vice president) said at a press conference on the 13th that Samsung plans to achieve the production of new Galaxy products using recycled materials by 2025, ban plastic packaging, and increase the utilization rate of recycled plastics for its smartphones to 100% by 2050.

According to him, Samsung's recently released Galaxy S23 series is the first flagship smartphone product to use recycled plastic parts. Among them, S23 Ultra uses a total of 12 recycled plastic parts, twice as many as before, and S23 and S23 Plus each use 11.

CTOnews.com learned that Samsung Electronics said as early as 2019 that it would replace plastic packaging for its products with paper and other environmentally friendly recycled materials, such as recycled / bioplastics, including mobile phones, tablets, household appliances and wearables.