Vodafone comes with a label to indicate what impact a mobile phone has on the environment. At the end of the year, all the phones in the shops of the provider are sold in a so-called eco-score.
To the so-called eco-score to get to 162 features looked, so made Vodafone known. Among other attempts of the manufacturer to the emissions of CO2 to reduce and conserve water are according to the telco’s important. Also, the way manufacturers to their raw material is held against the light, and there is a look into the working conditions of employees.
According to Vodafone, the method for the calculation of the eco-score developed by the Bureau Veritas and SKM Enviros. The telco would be the environmental label is being introduced because research shows that almost half of the people in the environment are important in the purchase of a mobile phone. Phones can stickers with the numbers 1 to 5: phones with the highest score are the most environmentally friendly. At the end of 2011 is the eco-score on the price tag in the shops of the telco.
