Samsung has brought home another award today, and this time, it's from Carbon Trust. Carbon Trust has been working since 2001 to certify carbon footprints of products, and it has done so with all the Galaxy smartphones released since 2012. The agency's Best in Product Carbon Footprint award is one of the most prestigious environmental sustainability awards that can be obtained, having been presented annually for the past four years to Galaxy device.
It's really not the award that matters here, but the fact that Samsung has been making a constant effort to reduce the impact its products have on the environment. To put things into perspective, the Galaxy S5 has reduced the emission level by 37 percent compared to the Galaxy S2. Of course, this isn't the first award that Samsung has gotten for its efforts to preserve the environment.
Here's a statement from Wouter van Tol, Samsung's European Head of Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability:
As the world’s leading manufacturer of smartphones, we have a responsibility to minimize our environmental footprint. Being recognized for substantially reducing greenhouse emissions across our flagship range of Galaxy smartphones is a great honor.
This is thanks to our Planet First approach, where we consider the environmental impact of everything we manufacture, right from the start. We are committed to an on-going program of lowering our impact on the environment, and look forward to making even further progress in this area in the future
In the past, the tech company has also received awards for its carbon emissions from Carbon Trust (UK), Ecological Union and Underwriter's Laboratories which goes to show that it certainly surpasses its competition when you look at the carbon footprint that its devices have.
