What’s inside your smartphone can help protect our precious oceans
We’re evolving the materials in Galaxy devices for a more sustainable future
Plastic pollution is a threat to our oceans and marine life.1 You may think of single-use water bottles or grocery bags drifting on the ocean surface, but most of this material is discarded fishing nets and gear. According to Greenpeace, a staggering 640,000 tons of fishing equipment are abandoned in the ocean each year. Plastic fishing nets, also known as ghost nets, entangle marine life and damage coral reefs. Microscopic plastic fragments even make their way into our food and water.
A staggering 640,000 tons of fishing nets are abandoned in the ocean each year
– Greenpeace
Giving new life to
old fishing nets
As part of our sustainability vision, Galaxy for the Planet, Samsung is recovering discarded fishing gear to recycle and use it in our products. We plan to remove more than 50 tons of old fishing nets from the ocean this year. In collaboration with industry experts, we’ve developed a way to repurpose the nets into components of our smartphones. The recently unveiled Galaxy S22 Series is our first smartphone to incorporate recycled ocean plastic. The components highlighted below contain a minimum of 20% recycled plastic recovered from fishing nets.
Sharing the burden of creating a greener future
Whether you’ve just started making sustainable everyday changes or are already championing a sustainable lifestyle, you can be sure that we are working toward that shared goal together. Integrating recycled fishing nets into Galaxy devices is another important step we’re taking to reduce our environmental impact. Now and into the future, we will be incorporating repurposed ocean-bound plastics into our Galaxy products.
Everyday changes.
Meaningful impact.
It’s important to make sustainable choices in our everyday lives, including the products we purchase. By using choosing a phone that includes plastic made from recovered fishing gear, you reduce the production of virgin plastic to lower the environmental impact of you high tech lifestyle. When we all make everyday changes, we can have a meaningful collective impact and preserve our planet’s natural resources.
¹ Ocean-bound plastic is abandoned plastic waste of all sizes (micro-plastics, mezzo-plastics and macro-plastics) that are located within 50km of shores in communities or areas where waste management is inexistent or very inefficient.
Galaxy S22
Galaxy Buds2
Certified re-newed phones
