Absolute Gadget - Carphone Warehouse leads green charge

Carphone Warehouse leads green charge

Written by Matt Chapman
Tuesday, 04 September 2007
UK mobile phone retailer Carphone Warehouse is planning to help its customers turn green – without them morphing into the Hulk. In October it will launch an exclusive ‘green' mobile phone charger. Unlike conventional mobile phone chargers that continue to use electricity for as long as they are connected to an electric socket, this brand new “environmentally responsible” charger stops using power as soon as the handset is fully charged. “This revolutionary charger is the first of its kind and is set to pave the way in new phone technology by reducing damage to the environment and saving energy,” a 100 per cent recycled statement from Carphone Warehouse said. The company said a shocking 95 per cent of energy used by all mobile phone chargers is wasted, and unplugging chargers could save consumers £60m a year and cut CO2 emissions by 250,000 tonnes – the amount of energy required to heat 54,000 homes for a year. “We are constantly looking for ways of reducing damage to the environment and we believe that this exclusive ‘green' charger is a large step in the right direction,” said Graham Stapleton, group purchasing director at The Carphone Warehouse. However, Britain did come top in Europe when it came to users recycling their mobile phones. Carphone Warehouse’s Mobile Life report found that 43 per cent of the UK recycles mobile phones.

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