Telecom
Zain honours e-Waste Recycling winners
Leading telecom operator Zain Bahrain recently honoured the winners of its innovative green initiative “Zain National Mobile Phone and e-Waste Recycling Campaign” for the month of June. The recycling campaign was launched by Zain Bahrain in March offering the public a chance to win prizes for their green action of disposing their old and unusable [...]
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App of the Week: Even lazy geeks can come to see the ‘go green’ light
The biggest mental block geeks have to overcome before they can obey the 21st century’s moral imperative to “go green” is the whole “go” part. Any profiler worth his salt would say that a typical techie leans towards a more sedentary lifestyle, averse not only to “going”, but most action verbs in general. Let’s face [...]
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Nokia E-Cu: Now let the heat in your pocket do the charging!
Eco-friendly cell phone concept can be charged by the heat of surrounding objects. London designer Patrick Hyland has a sizzling hot concept to heat up the cell phone market this season. Christened the “Nokia E-Cu”, this mobile phone concept is something you would have never seen or heard before. This ingenious cell phone doesn’t require [...]
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Qtel new e-Waste Recycling Programme
With the launch of a new e-Waste Recycling Programme, Qtel today took a giant green step forward in their efforts to advance practices that protect our planet and people from environmental contaminants. Currently, few options exist in Qatar for the “green” disposal of mobile phones and related materials that contain potentially hazardous and contaminating heavy [...]
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Greenpeace praises Nokia, slams Nintendo
Nokia and Sony Ericsson make some of the world’s most environmentally sound electronics, while Nintendo and Toshiba are among the least eco-friendly, Greenpeace claims in a green guide released on Wednesday. The group in its quarterly study rates 18 major companies for their progress on phasing out hazardous substances, recycling electronic waste and improving energy [...]
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