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Samsung Receives Environmental Leader Award

by Andrew Fenn

Samsung has received an Environmental Leader 2018 Project of the Year Award winner for its Galaxy Upcycling programme. The award honours the programme’s use of a product’s materials throughout its entire lifecycle. The programe …

Tags:Environment| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartphones| Vol 25 - Issue 21

Foxconn Will Use 7 Million Gallons of Water from Lake Michigan Every Day

by Andrew Fenn

Foxconn has received permission from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to drain up to 7 million gallons of water from Lake Michigan — one of the five Great Lakes of North America — …

Tags:Environment| Large Display Monitor| LCD Fabs| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 17

Apple Announces It Is Now 100% Powered by Clean Energy

by Andrew Fenn

Apple has announced it is now using 100% clean energy to power its retail stores, offices, data centers and co-located facilities in 43 countries, including the US, the UK, China and India. The company …

Tags:Apple| Environment| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 14

Samsung Receives Environmental Product Declaration for Galaxy S8 Panel

by Andrew Fenn

Samsung Display has announced that the OLED display featuring in its Galaxy S8 smartphone recently obtained an Environmental Product Declaration for the use of carbon, water, acidification and eutrophication. The declaration is part of …

Tags:Environment| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartphones| Vol 25 - Issue 13

Asus Becomes First Company to Receive UL Environment Validation

by Andrew Fenn

Asus has announced its successful completion of the validation procedure in UL Environment’s Circularity Facts programme, which employs sustainability procedures and standards to quantify a company’s efforts to move operations towards a more circular …

US e-Waste Recycling Hero Facing Prison over Piracy Charge

by Bob Raikes

Big hat tip to the Washington Post and Seattle Times for this one, and if any US-based readers can help with this case you know what to do. Eric Lundgren is currently facing a …

TCO Certified Releases Generation 8 Criteria Drafts

by Andrew Fenn

The criteria draft of TCO Certified Generation 8 is available now and open for stakeholder comment until May 31st. According to the company’s announcement, it has “made several changes to the criteria documents, making …

Flex Wins 2018 Manufacturing Leadership Award for Sustainability

by Andrew Fenn

Sketch-to-Scale solution provider Flex has announced that it has been honoured as a 2018 Manufacturing Leadership Awards winner for its achievements in sustainability. The company was recognised for its 2017 Earth Day campaign, which …

UDC Achieves Environmental Certification

by Andrew Fenn

Universal Display Corporation has announced that it has achieved certification under ISO 14001:2015, an internationally-agreed standard that sets out the requirements for an environmental management system. It provides a framework to protect the environment …

Tags:Environment| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| UDC| Vol 25 - Issue 09

Next-Generation TCO Certified Drafts Coming This Month

by Andrew Fenn

From March 22nd, TCO Certified will release draft criteria and make these available for stakeholder comment, until May 31st. During this period, drafts for all eight product categories—Displays, AIO, Notebooks, Tablets, Smartphones, Desktops, Projects …

Carbon Dioxide Levels, Displays, and the Earth

by Kenneth Li

I read several articles in Display Daily recently with relationship to Global Warming, which almost all of us believe to be related to the CO2 levels. Without getting into the political and technological side …

Tags:Environment| Power Consumption| Vol 25 - Issue 04

Delta Electronics Becomes First Taiwanese Firm to Pass SBTi

by Andrew Fenn

After achieving a 50% reduction in energy intensity in 2014 from 2009, Delta Electronics has passed the SBTi (Science Based Targets initiative) evaluation, becoming the first company in Taiwan, as well as one of …

Tags:Delta| Environment| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 01