Samsung is not going to fix the recalled Galaxy Note 7, and their disposal is bad for the environment.
Samsung, apparently, is not going to produce a new Note phablets and Galaxy Note 7 according to the company, Samsung is “safe” to get rid of. About it reported the edition Motherboard.
“We have a process for safe disposal of phones,” – said in a statement.
Thus, Samsung has no plans to fix or any way to recover all returned to the Galaxy Note 7. Instead, the company will extract components, which are suitable for reuse.
However, it is likely that deliverance from the remnants of such number of smartphones can cause substantial harm to the environment. The fact is that to create one smartphone is required, scientists estimate that more than 70 kilograms of raw materials. In addition, experts note that the problem of disposing of smartphones is “at the initial stage of development”.
“Smartphones are actually not recycled in any case, rare earth elements, so almost all the fun of the phone will be lost,” – said the expert in the field of extraction and processing of rare earth metals Benjamin Sprecher from Leiden University in the Netherlands.
Among other things, not recycled toxic elements such as used in sensors, indium, and neodymium and cobalt.
