{"id":294870,"date":"2019-02-05T13:21:31","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T11:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=294870"},"modified":"2019-02-05T13:23:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T11:23:45","slug":"samsung-to-stop-using-plastic-packaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/294870-samsung-to-stop-using-plastic-packaging.html","title":{"rendered":"Samsung to stop using plastic packaging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung has <a href=\"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/za\/packaging-with-sustainable-materials\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>published a press release<\/strong><\/a> announcing it will begin replacing its current plastic product packaging with environmentally-friendly alternatives such as paper.<\/p>\n<p>By 2020, Samsung hopes to have transitioned completely to paper packaging &#8211; and to use 500,000 tons of recycled plastics by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Samsung Electronics is stepping up in addressing society\u2019s environmental issues such as resource depletion and plastic wastes,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are committed to recycling resources and minimising pollution coming from our products.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This move comes after Samsung previously came under criticism for sub-par levels of eco-friendliness, with Greenpeace awarding Samsung a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/reports\/greener-electronics-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>D rating<\/strong><\/a> in its Guide to Greener Electronics in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Samsung has not kept pace with the efforts of Apple to reduce its greenhouse gas footprint and transition its factories to renewable sources of energy,&#8221; the report said at the time.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/294804-samsung-galaxy-s10-is-thinner-than-the-s9-and-has-a-bigger-battery.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Samsung Galaxy S10 is thinner than the S9 and has a bigger battery<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By 2020, Samsung hopes to have transitioned completely to paper packaging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":240062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[23229,645,939],"class_list":["post-294870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-environment","tag-samsung","tag-samsung-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294876,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294870\/revisions\/294876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}