product environment performance
Samsung Electronics makes an effort to develop environment-friendly product that minimizing an impact to environment through whole process from getting raw materials, production, transportation, usage and end-of-life disposal by adding 'environment' on function, price, quality, design that were the essence for product development.
For this process, we takes a responsibility for whole process through LCA and recycle evaluation and by operating recycling center for dealing with an efficient treatment of the waste product.
- policy & principle
- regional compliance
- voluntary programs
- recycling statistics
- recycling in Korea
- how to recycle Samsung products
how to recycle Samsung products
We all have a responsibility to ensure that electronic products are properly disposed of at end-of-life. Recycling electronics conserves natural resources and minimizes the environmental impact of improper disposal. Please return your Samsung product for recycling when it reaches the end of its useful life. Details on how you can return unwanted products are set out below:
Mobile phones
For information about how to return unwanted mobile phones for recycling, please follow the Green Management link from the Samsung Mobile website:
Printer Cartridges
The Samsung Takeback and Recycling (S.T.A.R) Programme offers customers a take-back service for printer cartridges. Click on the link below to find out how you can return your cartridges free of charge.
Other products
- Europe
in Europe, recycling of electrical products is covered by the WEEE Directive. In most EU countries electronic products can be returned for recycling through municipal waste sites or to a retailer if you are purchasing a replacement product. For more information about how to recycle Samsung products in your country, please follow the links for our contracted recycling organizations below:
| Country | Recycling scheme |
|---|---|
| Austria | www.erp-recycling.at |
| Belgium | www.recupel.be |
| Czech Republic | www.asekol.cz |
| www.elektrowin.cz | |
| Denmark | elretur.dk |
| Finland | www.serty.fi |
| France | www.eco-systemes.com |
| Germany | www.erp-recycling.org |
| Hungary | www.electro-coord.hu |
| Ireland | www.erp-recycling.org/contact_ireland_eng0.0.html |
| Italy | www.consorzioremedia.it |
| Latvia | www.lze.lv |
| Netherlands | www.ictoffice.nl/index.shtml?ch=MIL&id=4497 |
| www.nvmp.nl | |
| Poland | www.elektroeko.pl |
| Portugal | www.amb3e.pt |
| Slovakia | envidom.sk |
| www.sewa.sk | |
| Spain | www.ecotic.es |
| www.erp-recycling.org/spanish.0.html | |
| Sweden | www.el-kretsen.se |
| Switzerland | www.swico.ch |
| UK | www.erp-recycling.org/437.0.html |
- USA
For information about our electronics recycling programme in the US, please visit the following link:
- Korea
For information about Korean electronics recycling programme in Korea, please visit the following link:
- Japan
For information about Korean electronics recycling programme in Japan, please visit the following link:
