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Motorola Renew

by Chad Mumm on January 12, 2009 at 02:02 PM

Motorola is jumping on the green bandwagon in a big way with its recently announced "Renew" phone, billed as the world's first carbon-neutral phone. The company teamed up with CarbonFund.org to help offset the energy cost for the new device, whose shell is made entirely of recycled water bottles. Included in the packaging for the phone is a recycling envelope so you can send it back to Motorola at the end of its life. The device is going to be priced low. which pretty much guarantees a more limited feature set, but we like that the company is providing avenues for recycling their products--if only more companies would follow suit. In fact, one of the more interesting sights of this year's CES was the zombie television protest organized by Electronics Takeback Coalition urging conference goers to demand their television manufacturers take back and recycle products made obsolete by the digital TV switch on February 19th. Motorola must be hedging its bets against a similar rising of cellular undead.

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