Motorola announces phone made from recycled plastic bottles

If you want to live green, you have to make sacrifices. Taking fewer flights a year, owning only one car per household and paying through the nose for organic food are all easy enough ways of doing your bit. Switching your beloved handset for one of Motorola’s latest offerings however, might stretch your environmental conscience to the limit.

In a bid to attract eco-conscious consumers, Motorola has announced a handset that is made out of recycled plastic bottles. The Moto W233 Renew phone is being touted as the world’s first carbon neutral phone, requiring 20 percent less energy to manufacture than your typical handset.

The phone’s packaging has been kept to a bare minimum and of course the documents and box are all made from recycled materials too. What’s more, when you are done with the handset, you can send it back to Motorola, which will recycle it for free.

Little about the W233’s technical bullet points is known, besides the fact that it offers nine hours of talk time. Pricing is still a mystery too, though Motorola has stated that the W233 is set to ship in the US sometime in the next three months on T-Mobile.

Hats off to Motorola for making an effort here, but did it have to make the thing so fugly. Just because your phone has green credentials doesn’t mean it has to sport a lurid puke green colour scheme too.

(Via DailyTech)

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