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Samsung’s New Eco-Friendly Packaging Can Be Turned Into Cat Homes

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Samsung launches new eco-friendly packaging that encourages customers to upcycle their TV boxes into useful items including, among other things, cardboard cat homes.

Samsung announces ‘Eco-Packaging’ for Its Lifestyle TV Lineup

Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics has announced it is introducing a new eco-friendly packaging across its Lifestyle TV product portfolio in efforts to reduce the environmental footprint. Samsung’s new ‘eco-packaging’ made from eco-friendly corrugated cardboard will be applied to The Serif, The Frame and The Sero, allowing customers easier recycling as well as up-cycling of the cardboard boxes for “creative reuse”.

The Serif, The Frame and The Sero, allowing customers easier recycling as well as upcycling of the cardboard boxes for creative reuse.
Samsung’s new ‘eco-packaging’ made from eco-friendly corrugated cardboard will be applied to: The Serif, The Frame and The Sero, allowing customers easier recycling as well as upcycling of the cardboard boxes for creative reuse. Source: Samsung
This allows customers to cut the boxes more easily and assemble them into various other uses, such as small end tables or houses for pets.
Samsung has applied a dot matrix design on each side of its eco-friendly corrugated cardboard boxes. This allows customers to cut the boxes more easily and assemble them into various other uses, such as small end tables or houses for pets. Source: Samsung
Included within the packaging is a manual to guide customers on how to make household items out of the cardboard boxes, which can be accessed by scanning the QR code on the box.
Samsung Introduce ‘Eco-Packaging’ for Its Lifestyle TV Lineup Included within the packaging is a manual to guide customers on how to make household items out of the cardboard boxes, which can be accessed by scanning the QR code on the box. Source: Samsung
Owners of The Serif who tend to put shelves and furniture around the TV can build cat houses, magazine racks and even shelves from the cardboard boxes to store household items and electronic devices, including the remote control.
Multipurpose box. Owners of The Serif who tend to put shelves and furniture around the TV can build cat houses, magazine racks and even shelves from the cardboard boxes to store household items and electronic devices, including the remote control. Source: Samsung

Samsung wins CES 2020 Innovation Awards for its eco-packaging concept

Earlier this year, Samsung had already won CES 2020 Innovation Awards for its eco-packaging concept for promoting the efficient use of resources.

 As part of the rollout of the new eco-packaging, Samsung and Dezeen, a British lifestyle magazine, will hold a global design competition starting April 6th, where the two companies will award the most unique and practical designs and will apply the designs into its eco-packaging manual.

“Consumers are more likely to purchase from a brand that shares similar fundamentals and values as they do, and with our eco-packaging, we believe that we can provide our customers with a new experience that considers the environment as an important way to express themselves,” said Kangwook Chun, Executive Vice President and Head of Product Strategy Team of Visual Display Business at Samsung Electronics.

For more information on the design competition, please visit Dezeen and Samsung TV Instagram

Figure shows that in 2017 ‘paper and cardboard (41 %)’, ‘plastic (19 %)’, ‘glass (18 %)’, ‘wood (17 %)’ and ‘metal (5 %)’ are the most common types of packaging waste in the EU-27. Other materials represent less than 0.3 % of the total volume of packaging waste generated in 2017. That year, 172.6 kg of packaging waste was generated per inhabitant in the EU-27. This quantity varied between 64.1 kg per inhabitant in Bulgaria and 230.9 kg per inhabitant in Luxembourg.
Waste generation by packaging material Figure shows that in 2017 ‘paper and cardboard (41 %)’, ‘plastic (19 %)’, ‘glass (18 %)’, ‘wood (17 %)’ and ‘metal (5 %)’ are the most common types of packaging waste in the EU-27. Other materials represent less than 0.3 % of the total volume of packaging waste generated in 2017. That year, 172.6 kg of packaging waste was generated per inhabitant in the EU-27. This quantity varied between 64.1 kg per inhabitant in Bulgaria and 230.9 kg per inhabitant in Luxembourg. Source: ec.europa.eu
The recycling rate covers only material recycling and not other forms of recycling, i.e. exclusively material that is recycled back into plastics. The target of 22.5 % recycled plastic packaging waste was met by all Member States, only Lichtenstein, with 18.3 %, did not reach the target .
Image shows the recycling rate for plastic packaging waste for the EU Member States and EEA/EFTA countries in 2017. The recycling rate covers only material recycling and not other forms of recycling, i.e. exclusively material that is recycled back into plastics. The target of 22.5 % recycled plastic packaging waste was met by all Member States, only Lichtenstein, with 18.3 %, did not reach the target . Source: ec.europa.eu

Development of all packaging waste generated, recovered and recycled, EU, 2007-2017

  • Due to the 2008 global financial and economic crisis, the amount of packaging generated decreased but increased during the following years and in 2017 the volume of packaging waste reached the highest value since 2007.
  • Over the 2007–2017 period, the generation of ‘paper and cardboard’ and ‘plastic’ and ‘glass’ packaging waste increased while ‘metal’ packaging waste decreased. Although largely fluctuating over the entire period, the amounts of wooden packaging waste also increased.
  • The absolute amount of packaging waste recycling and recovery increased from 2007 to 2017.
  • The recycling and recovery rates have increased steadily over the ten-year period.
Source: ec.europa.eu

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