Samsung is phasing out plastic packaging

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Samsung is phasing out plastic packaging

Samsung has announced that it will start taking steps this year to replace plastic packaging materials with paper and other environmentally sustainable elements. From the first half of 2019, the packaging used currently for Samsung’s products and accessories – ranging from mobile phones and tablets to home appliances – will be substituted with environmentally sustainable … <a href="https://businesstech.co.za/news/mobile/297420/samsung-is-phasing-out-plastic-packaging/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Samsung is phasing out plastic packaging"</span></a>

 

[neoprema]

cute. one day they'll reach Apple's levels of saving the environment that is unrivalled.

 

[Aquila ka Hecate]

Oh, bravo. Now what about all the:

Gallium
Selenium
Gold
Mercury
Chromium
Niobium
Tungsten
Molybdenum

etc ?

 

[Ninja'd]

But you're still making phones with plastic.

 

[Crowley]

cute. one day they'll reach Apple's levels of saving the environment that is unrivalled.

About that...

While Apple brags about eliminating a few grams of paper from its product packaging, it often forces consumers to throw devices in the dumpster prematurely by making them very difficult to repair or upgrade. These computers and phones are made from precious and rare materials that cost much more than cardboard to procure, not only in terms of raw material cost but also the environmental impact of manufacturing and the human labor involved in processing all the components into a finished product. Apple chooses to build its products in a way that makes upgrading them impossible, even though it could easily, and in fact used to be far more accommodating to customers who prefer to upgrade their electronics rather than replace them wholesale.

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[neoprema]

About that...


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*Covers eyes at the propaganda machine...*

 

[redspark]

Please, not another Samsung thread

 

[SauRoNZA]

About that...


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They don't force anyone to throw anything in the dumpster...they do that all by themselves.

Also no need to throw it in the dumpster since Apple offers a full recycling facility...

https://www.apple.com/recycling/nationalservices/

So they can all be re-used in future products with minimal loss or impact.

Therefore bollocks to your quote.

 

[Crowley]

They don't force anyone to throw anything in the dumpster...they do that all by themselves.

Also no need to throw it in the dumpster since Apple offers a full recycling facility...

https://www.apple.com/recycling/nationalservices/

So they can all be re-used in future products with minimal loss or impact.

Therefore bollocks to your quote.

So you take apart the first line, ignore the fact that Apple is making it harder and harder to repair and upgrade their products, and that invalidates the whole article?

 

[SauRoNZA]

So you take apart the first line, ignore the fact that Apple is making it harder and harder to repair and upgrade their products, and that invalidates the whole article?

Pretty much.

It's irrelevant and it's nothing new and no different that just about any other manufacturer out there.

Nobody is forcing anyone's hand in all this.

Not to even mention that Apple's products last longer than everyone else's to begin with...but you know nobody ever mentions that when it comes to these silly arguments.

As for the Kool-aid picture...you are the one running the anti-Apple propaganda so who is really having the koolaid here?

 

[Crowley]

Pretty much.

It's irrelevant and it's nothing new and no different that just about any other manufacturer out there.

But it is different.

Apple’s iPad Pro 9.7″ and iPad 5 both scored a 2, while the MacBook Pro 13″ and Retina MacBook received a 1. Apple products do not come with repair guides, and the company does not sell spare parts to third party repair shops, the report said. iPad screens are also heavily glued to the rest of the device, greatly increasing the chances of damaging the glass during a repair. In Macbooks, the processors, RAMs, and flash memories are soldered to the motherboards, making these parts difficult to access for repair or replacing.

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Nobody is forcing anyone's hand in all this.

How is making your products unable to be upgraded not forcing people to get new products?

Not to even mention that Apple's products last longer than everyone else's to begin with...but you know nobody ever mentions that when it comes to these silly arguments.

Any facts to support your claim or should we just believe you because Apple?

As for the Kool-aid picture...you are the one running the anti-Apple propaganda so who is really having the koolaid here?

This was a thread about Samsung using less plastic. Neoprema brought up Apple. I showed him Apple isn't all rainbow showers and unicorn poop.

 

[SauRoNZA]

But it is different.

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How is making your products unable to be upgraded not forcing people to get new products?

And I say again this is the standard for all manufacturers competing in that space. It's hardly a special Apple deal.

It's part and parcel of modern engineering to make things as thin/compact/lightweight as possible.

Any facts to support your claim or should we just believe you because Apple?

Years and years of experience in the field observing many many different hardware platforms from different brands.

Working for one of the biggest SA enterprise our life cycle on Dell PC's was 3 years while it was 5 years on all things Apple Mac even though ironically they didn't have near the same warranty cover they almost never needed it. Many of those still stuck around many years after their replacement cycle and auctioned off in working conditions while the PC's were ready to be thrown away.

Also a common statistics outside my anecdotal evidence and why many big companies run Macbooks even if they are installed with Windows.

I recall IBM being a big one making a fuss about switching to Mac due to the life cycle being much longer and costing them less long term.

https://www.jamf.com/blog/total-cost-of-ownership-mac-versus-pc-in-the-enterprise/

https://www.computerworld.com/artic...-are-even-cheaper-to-run-than-it-thought.html

Subsequently after leaving that enterprise and moving to SME's and converting to Apple slowly but surely from a purely software side a lot less support is required to maintain a network of Macs over the equivalent Windows PC's.

This was a thread about Samsung using less plastic. Neoprema brought up Apple. I showed him Apple isn't all rainbow showers and unicorn poop.

Fair enough but there is a bit "movement" to counter argue every little good thing that Apple does while simply ignoring the much greater evils of other companies who make zero effort at all.

Apple are still the good guys in the bigger picture compared to their industry peers. It seems sadly in doing so they just draw attention to themselves and divert it away from the rest where it really should be.