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Nokia’s environment initiatives are based on life-cycle thinking and aims at focusing on all facets of operations, devices and services to reduce their overall impact on the environment.
Nokia has rolled out its Take-back and recycling initiative in India on January 01, 2009. Customers can drop their old and used Nokia phones, chargers and accessories, irrespective of the brand and Nokia takes care of the rest. Within the first 45 days of the launch, Nokia has been able to collect 3 tonnes of eWaste including 10,000 handsets and the same has been sent to authorized recyclers for recycling.
Further to the initiative, Nokia has recently initiated the planting of saplings for every old phone recycled.
Some other initiatives:
- Nokia set up the Nokia SEZ Environmental Team (NSET) in December 2006
- Nokia’s partnership with TERI for their project “Lighting Up A Billion Lives”- NOKIA has sponsored 3 villages as a part of LABL campaign of TERI:
- Nokia has been working extensively with WWF, globally as well as in India. The most recent project that is currently underway is the conservation of the South Western Ghats. As part of this project WWF India and Nokia have identified a priority landscape within the SW Ghats for conservation and sustainable development efforts.
- Nokia’s R&D has a number of innovative ‘Green’ concepts in the pipeline like Remade, Nokia Eco Sensor and Morph
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