Alcatel goes green, reduces packaging

by Sean Cooper, posted Jun 30th 2007 at 11:50AM

It seems mobile operators and now their handset suppliers are starting to take the environment into consideration -- three by our reckoning, and in only a couple months -- by doing favors for ol' mother nature. Alcatel, working in conjunction with Carbon Footprint has tweaked the packaging of its new device line and made it three times smaller. This is of course environmentally pleasant from an energy consumed perspective, reduced shipping costs, and in shrinking the piles on the desks at Engadget Mobile. Packaging is useful for shipping, but if you're picking up your mobile at a corporate store, the handset, a CD, and whatever cables are required really is enough. Thank you Alcatel, from the very bottoms of our hearts -- now if only somebody would work on the impossible-to-open-without-a-saw shrink packaging.

[Via textually.org]

Filed under: Handsets

Tags: Alcatel, Culture, environment, green, packaging, reduction

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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Jay Hash @ Jul 1st 2007 3:02PM

Alcatel is a terrible, evil company. I hope that all get ghonnoreah and rot in hell.

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Failedgrace @ Jul 5th 2007 9:13PM

Why are they evil?

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