Mobile technologies in ecology. "Mobile technologies for the environment"
Samsung Electronics strives not only to develop technology, but also to take a responsible approach to protecting environment. By paying attention to the environment at every stage of design and production, the company strives to minimize negative impact on the environment in all areas of its activities.
Sustainable materials and technologies for a sustainable world
How can a smartphone be environmentally friendly? Samsung works tirelessly to develop materials with improved environmental performance through cross-functional projects across various departments, including the company's R&D and quality control departments.
As a result of these efforts, the company produces products containing biological materials. To do this, Samsung used industrial corn, mineral plastic, and also found new uses for colyketone, a polymer made from carbon monoxide captured during molding. Samsung was the first in the industry to use this material in TVs.
Samsung also uses recycled plastics to make certain products, obtained by cleaning and recycling plastic from waste collected by recycling companies. Recycled plastic is used, for example, in the inner packaging tray (30%) and charging adapter (20%). The phone's box is half made from recycled cardboard, and the packaging and user manual booklet are printed with soy ink.
Energy efficiency is another criterion for respecting the environment, which Samsung pays special attention to. For example, the Galaxy S8 fast charger (5V/2A, 9V/1.67A) is optimized for low idle power consumption (0.02 W) and increased charging efficiency (86%).
Thanks to this attention, Samsung devices are always recognized for their sustainable design and technology. The company is awarded eco-labels on world markets. In particular, the Galaxy S8 has received a number of eco-labels, including EPEAT and ECOLOGO Gold (USA), Carbon Trust (USA), Vitality Leaf (Russia) and Selo Colibri (Brazil) certifications.
Ecology and cleanliness: responsible use chemical substances
With the expansion of global RoHS and REACH standards, Samsung has increased rigorous testing and accounting procedures for raw materials and parts used in manufacturing. In this way, the company ensures that it provides safe and quality products to customers.
Among Samsung management's projects is the maintenance of an Environmental Analysis Laboratory, which analyzes hazardous substances and volatile organic compounds, as well as accounting for restricted substances. In addition, Samsung has trained more than 650 internal environmental auditors to ensure that restricted substances are not contained in its products.
The company also launched the Eco-Partner certification program, a comprehensive environmental initiative designed to evaluate the environmental impact of product components, raw materials used and suppliers' manufacturing processes. To ensure the program's effectiveness, Samsung has developed the Environmental-Chemicals Integrated Management System to track the use of hazardous substances by its environmental partners. In addition, the company cooperates only with companies that have received all the necessary environmental certifications. Samsung currently manages 1,058 partners, a number that has quadrupled since 2010.
Moreover, the company is voluntarily working to completely eliminate the use of potentially hazardous chemicals such as polyvinyl chloride (PVC), brominated flame retardants (BFR) and phthalates. The company also constantly reduces the use of harmful substances in its products.
Evaluation and development of environmentally friendly products
Over the past few years, Samsung has been conducting Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of its leading smartphones. Using this method, 12 possible consequences environmental concerns such as global warming, ocean acidification and ozone depletion at every stage of a product's life cycle, from development and production to acquisition and use; end of service life and termination of operation.
This technology was first used in 2015 with the development and release of the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy Note5, and continues to be used right up to the Galaxy Note8, Samsung's latest flagship smartphone. Devices subject to the 12-step verification process demonstrated a major environmental impact during the pre-production and distribution phases. In these areas, Samsung is focusing on improving energy efficiency and reducing emissions from its supply chain devices, thereby reducing its environmental impact, according to LCA.
In an effort to continually improve energy efficiency and recyclability, and reduce the amount of harmful substances in products, Samsung has created its Eco-rating System, which evaluates the environmental performance of each project. The system allows you to assign one of three ratings to a project – Premium Eco-Product, Good Eco-Product and Eco-Product – depending on the product’s energy efficiency, resource efficiency and its compliance with international environmental standards.
By constantly analyzing and evaluating changing environmental standards, Samsung incorporates the latest environmental innovations into its products. Product ratings are continually improving, and the company aims to have 90% percent of new designs rated Good Eco-Product or higher by 2020.
"Decrease, reuse, waste recycling": contribution to the circular economy
To contribute to and support the circular economy, Samsung is involved in a number of projects to improve resource efficiency and reuse. These initiatives include extending product life, providing repair services, updating software to improve performance and extending warranty coverage.
Additionally, rather than simply scrapping returned mobile devices, Samsung replaces the parts, reinstalls the software, and repackages them to sell them at a discounted price as refurbished devices. This service, available in the US and UK, improves resource efficiency by reusing products.
For example, earlier this year Samsung announced plans to recycle and reuse certain components of Galaxy Note7 devices. In particular, OLED display modules, memory chips and cameras were subsequently sold as components or included in the Galaxy Note FE. Samsung worked on this with companies specializing in materials recycling.
Another current Samsung project is Galaxy Upcycling, created as part of the Creative Lab program. This project provides ways to recycle old Galaxy devices. Three years after launch 70% electronic devices The Galaxy Upcycling project is using smartphones that would otherwise be thrown away or forgotten on shelves to create new open Internet of Things platforms, outdoor surveillance systems, gaming consoles and much more.
Samsung also makes many efforts to reuse resources through waste collection, increased material reuse and international programs to reduce consumption and recycle waste in 60 countries.
A greener economy will change the world, and Samsung will continue to do its best to promote green and resource-based solutions while continuing to provide users with more quality products designed with the environment in mind.
We invite you and your school to become participants in the project “Mobile Technologies for the Environment”
and conduct an All-Russian Eco-Lesson!
The lesson can be taught by a teacher at your school,
MTS volunteer or activist of the ECA Movement.
Join
school for the project I am ready to conduct
eco lesson
This one is unusual and useful project organized within the framework of the “Green Schools” program of the All-Russian ECA movement with the support and direct participation
MTS company.
Your children will not part with their mobile phones, tablets and other
devices (or gadgets)?
Let's make them part and subject of exciting educational process,
in which your students - I am sure - will participate with great interest.
A teacher or volunteer does not need to have special knowledge or training to conduct an All-Russian eco-lesson - the project organizers have prepared teaching materials and a video tutorial to help, where everything is laid out down to the details.
All you have to do is teach the lesson!
All schools where the lesson will be held will receive project diplomas, and students will receive pocket books on how to protect nature.
The participating school will be included on the all-Russian online map of the project, and the best photos from the lessons will be included in the project’s online album.
Eco-Lesson “Mobile technologies for the environment” dedicated to International Day Earth April 22.
From April 21 to 27, during the Spring Week of Kindness, thousands of progressive and nature-loving teachers and volunteers will conduct an eco-lesson.
Other project activities
Events will also be held in 20 regions during April, which will be supervised by regional project coordinators:
City-wide eco-festivals
"Second life of things" where, during exciting practical master classes, students learn how to save the resources of the planet by sending household waste to recycling or giving a second life to your favorite things.
Game-competition “Green Economy.
Technologies for ecology" The game will take place in several stages (two qualifying rounds, a semi-final and a final) between school teams of high school students, the winning team will not only expand their knowledge about the “green” economy - the nature-preserving economy of the future, but will also receive prizes from the MTS company!
Vologda Region,
Voronezh region,
Irkutsk region,
Krasnodar region,
Leningrad region,
Moscow and Moscow region,
Novosibirsk region,
Orenburg region,
Penza region,
Pskov region,
Republic of Bashkiria,
The Republic of Mordovia,
Republic of Udmurtia,
Chuvash Republic,
Ryazan Oblast,
Samara Region,
Saratov region,
Sverdlovsk region,
Tula region,
Ulyanovsk region,
Yaroslavl region.
According to the All-Russian Study of Digital Competence of Teenagers and Parents (Internet Development Foundation, 2013), 76% of Russian schoolchildren spend an average of 3 hours a day on the Internet. Every seventh teenager aged 12 to 17 years spends almost a third of their life online (8 hours a day). 56% of teenagers access the Internet using mobile devices. On the one hand, children growing up in the era of the total Internet are at risk of excessive “virtualization,” “erosion of childhood,” exposure to unwanted content, and the development of gaming and other addictions. On the other hand, these same children have the chance to become conscious consumers, progressive active citizens, decision-makers global problems society - including ecological problems. In this dual situation, it is very important to motivate children to use the constructive, developmental capabilities of the Internet, and to show that virtual activities can bring real results.
Eco-lesson “Mobile technologies for ecology” introduced the children to relevant, convenient web services and applications that help solve problems related to environmental protection hometown and regions, and begin to practice a more responsible and environmentally friendly lifestyle.
This lesson helped solve one of the most pressing problems modern education — environmental education schoolchildren with an emphasis on everyday environmentally friendly practices.
During the lesson, the children learned about the involvement of Russian residents in the use of mobile and Internet technologies, about technology to protect nature: protecting forests, animals, planting trees, fighting garbage, energy saving with the help of gadgets, about environmentally friendly gadgets created by Russian innovators, about the opportunity for young innovators: competition “Telecom Idea Junior” (mobile application “Take care of the forest!”, monitoring systems “Lesnoy Dozor”, website Posadiles.ru.)
We played the board game “The Adventures of Ekoneshka and Her Friends.” The students were divided into 3 groups. Each team comes up with a name related to the Internet and gadgets. To move around the playing field, each
the team received one of the heroes - Ekoneshka, Interneshka or Smartik. The game continued at recess.
And at the end of the lesson - awarding the winners with a Certificate from Ekoneshka and collecting a reminder book.
The kids really enjoyed the lesson and were surprised by some of the information.
Use gadgets for your development and solving environmental problems!!!
Class teacher 5/6
Demchenko Lyudmila Vladimirovna
Hello, readers and guests of the DU blog! Today the bees had an unusual lesson. They took part in the All-Russian eco-lesson "Mobile technologies for ecology". We learned about the event from Olga Nikolaevna Ivashchenko’s blog.
The organizers took a responsible approach to developing the lesson: they prepared detailed guidelines for teachers, diplomas for the winning team, a board game with task cards, layouts of pocket books (pocket mods).
The teacher’s task is to register on the website and print out the necessary material.
1. At the beginning of the lesson, guys watched the presentation, from which the bees learned what technologies help save nature.
2. What awaited the boys next was interesting. board game. tasks were divided into 3 categories. We needed a playing field, a cube and chips - Smartik, Ekoneshka and Interneshka.
The children completed the tasks of the game with interest. And they were educational and creative.
For example, Why do you need to save electricity?Possible answers:
a) To reduce the burden on nature and help preserve it.
b) To reduce air pollution and protect our health.
c) To save money on electricity bills.
d) All of the above answers.
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"What percentage of old cell phone parts do you think can be recycle to be used again for different purposes?a) About 40-50%.
b) About 25-30%.
c) Up to 80-90%.
d) 100%.
It turns out that after processing in reuse goes >80-90%cell phone parts! It contains silver, copper, palladium and other valuablemetals. According to some estimates, from one ton electronic circuits from phones you canextract the same amount of gold as from 100 tons of gold ore."
Heated discussions in teams.
“What ways do you know to make your smartphone discharge slower? Let's save energy!"
"Imagine that you are an artist and you are making an art project (painting or sculpture) from electronic waste (old phones, tablets, laptops, their spare parts stey, etc.) Come up with and sketch your idea in 2 minutes." Two minutes turned out to be not enough for our fantasies. He tried.
And this question caused a lot of controversy among the guys. They even took advantage Atlas - determinant to learn more about the life of otters.
"In 2000, Nokia launched the first recycling project in Singapore. tions of mobile phones. But Singaporeans did not want to throw away used phones in a special container. Nokia turned to... local for help a zoo where a trained otter named Pedro lived. What we managed to do so that Singaporeans start recycling their phones?"
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE OF PRIMORSKY REGION
regional state autonomous
professional educational institution
"Dalnegorsk Industrial and Technological College"
I APPROVED
Deputy Director of Management and Science
O.D. Deremeshko
"_____"__________2016
________Eco-lesson Mobile technologies for the environment__________
(Name)
by discipline____ Chemistry, Biology ____
REVIEWED
at a meeting of the Central Committee
Chairman of the Central Committee
FULL NAME.
"____"__________2016
Developed by a teacherFErtikova Elena Nikolaevna
__
FULL NAME.
Dalnegorsk
2016
Content
1. Introduction
2. Main part
3.Conclusion
4. List of Internet resources
5.Applications
Introduction
The All-Russian eco-lesson “Mobile technologies for the environment” is being implemented on the initiative of MTS with the support of the Green Movement of Russia ECA.
Today's students are members of the Internet generation. Mobile and web technologies, gadgets with early childhood have become a common reality and one of the main ways of understanding the world. According to the All-Russian Study of Digital Competence of Teenagers and Parents (Internet Development Foundation, 2013), 76% of Russian schoolchildren spend an average of 3 hours a day on the Internet. Every seventh teenager aged 12 to 17 years spends almost a third of their life online (8 hours a day). 56% of teenagers access the Internet using mobile devices.
On the one hand, children are at risk of excessive “virtualization” and the development of gaming and other addictions. On the other hand, these same children have a chance to become conscious consumers, progressive active citizens, solving global problems of society - including environmental problems.
In this dual situation, it is very important to motivate children to use the constructive, developmental capabilities of the Internet, and to show that virtual activities can bring real results.
Eco-lesson “Mobile technologies for ecology” introduces current, convenient web services and applications that help solve problems related to the protection of the nature of their hometown and region, as well as begin to practice a more responsible and environmentally friendly lifestyle.
The lesson solves one of the most pressing problems of modern education - environmental education of schoolchildren with an emphasis on everyday environmentally friendly practices.
The goal of the All-Russian eco-lesson “Mobile technologies for the environment” is to increase the educational and developmental role of the Internet in the lives of schoolchildren, to motivate them to use “green” Internet services.
The presentation includes 3 thematic blocks:
Introduction. Involvement of Russian residents in the use of mobile and
Internet technologies.
Technologies to protect nature. Protecting forests, animals, planting trees, fighting garbage, saving energy with the help of gadgets.
Eco-friendly gadgets created by Russian innovators.
Opportunities for young innovators: “Telecom Idea Junior” competition.
2. Board game"The Adventures of Ekoneshka."
Working in teams, children roll the dice, make game moves and land on 3 types of game squares:
Situations (game cells contain different images - they coincide with the images on the task card, do not contain questions or tasks, but involve the addition or deduction of points in accordance with the rules).
Cognitive tasks (game cell with a picture of a question mark).
Creative tasks (game cell with a picture of a light bulb).
The total time to complete the interactive exercise is 20 minutes.
3. Fixing the material
Making a pocket mod (pocket book) with homework. At the end
During the lesson, students take the pocket book with them.
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Main part
Dear Guys! Today we have an unusual lesson ahead of us. We will find out how you can do it using the most ordinary smartphone the world better, cleaner and greener: protect forests from fires, plant trees, solve urban problems, recycle garbage and much more. After that we will play. You will be able to prove yourself and compete for a certificate from Ekoneshka. Much of the knowledge you will gain in the first part of the lesson will be necessary for you to win the game. So be careful! Finally, you will receive a completely exclusive homework- this is a task for real innovators and cutting-edge Internet users. And all this time we will be accompanied by the heroes of today's lesson.
Meet our guests - Ekoneshka and her friend Interneshka! First, let's try to answer the question: are mobile technologies popular in our country? How do you think? (children answer) In fact, of course, they are very popular. Just last year residents
Almost 43 million mobile phones were bought in Russia. This huge figure corresponds to one third of the population of our country! Also in 2015, almost 70% of Russian residents used the Internet, and about a third used mobile Internet. But do all of you know what your gadgets are capable of? It turns out that they can do much more than we used to think. With their help, you can save forests from fires, protect animals, save trees, protect nature from garbage, save energy and much more. Want to know how? Then attention!
Here is the mobile application “Take care of the forest!” It allows you to quickly and easily report to the Avialesohrana about any incident in the forests of our country - for example, a fire, by attaching a photo and coordinates of the fire. This will help to quickly cope with the fire and save the forest and its inhabitants. The MTS company, using the Forest Watch monitoring system, helps to find and quickly eliminate fires in the forest. Video cameras at MTS base stations help monitor the forest. Just one specialist can monitor large areas of the forest and accurately determine the location of the fire! MTS protects the land of the leopard and other rare animals in the reserves of our country! The system has been successfully tested in 20 regions
nah countries.
Another Internet service that is no less useful for our forests is the site Posadiles.ru. Now each of us, even a schoolchild, can plant one or many trees without leaving home. You just need to go to the website and buy a certificate; with these funds, volunteers of the ECA movement plant real living trees, restoring forest areas damaged by fires in different regions of Russia. Having planted a tree in this way, you receive its GPS coordinates and a certificate that you can keep for yourself or give as a gift.
to a friend. The eco-friendly project became a finalist in the MTS Telecom Idea competition.
Of course, our gadgets, the Internet and the mobile network require electricity to operate. Unfortunately, power lines are often dangerous for birds, who die from electrocution. MTS has independently equipped more than 100 power line poles with bird protection devices to make its equipment safe for wildlife.
How many of you have ever seen piles of garbage where there shouldn't be? For example, in the yard, in the park, in the forest, on the shore of the lake? (children answer). Would you like this to no longer happen in our native land? (children answer) Look at this most useful service. It's called ecofront.ru. Now, every time you see a pile of garbage, you can take a photo of it and indicate its GPS coordinates so that authorities and environmental activists know about the problem. You can also join the cleanup yourself and clear your yard, park, forest or city from illegal dumping.
Through the website and mobile application Krasivyypetersburg.rf, you can send an appeal to the authorities and solve the problem in your city - Clean up the landfill, stop illegal cutting of trees, write to the administration that you need bicycle parking or tanks for separate waste collection. More than 20,000 problems have already been solved in this way. Contrary to the name, all this operates not only in St. Petersburg, but already in more than 40 cities and regions of Russia.
You probably know that garbage should be recycled and not just dumped in giant, toxic landfills. But to do this, garbage must be collected separately: paper, plastic and other waste must go to the recycling plant separately from other garbage. The recyclemap.ru map, which is already replenished by volunteers in more than 30 cities, will help you find recycling collection points in your city, if it is on the map - including those that are located near your home or school.
We all have things that for some reason we don't wear or use. I don’t like it, it doesn’t fit, I’m tired of it... And so we throw things away. But what we don’t like is often needed by others! And vice versa: we might like many things that did not suit others. The darudar.ru service allows you to give away an unnecessary item for free, and find the one you need - also completely free. People just exchange them here. This is not only an opportunity to please yourself with something new, but also a way to treat nature more carefully and respectfully, produce less waste and not waste natural resources.
You've probably heard that thermometers and energy-saving lamps cannot simply be thrown into the trash because they contain poisonous mercury. There are other wastes that require special disposal - for example, batteries, accumulators, computers and other equipment. On the website Kudagradusnik.ru you can find collection points for such waste in your city and start disposing of it in a civilized way.
There are more and more cyclists on the streets of large Russian cities. Riding a bicycle is not only cheap, but also environmentally friendly, because the bicycle does not need fuel. What do you think it takes to get people to cycle more? (children answer) Activists are increasingly lobbying city authorities to introduce bike paths, bike parking and other facilities important for cyclists. And for these objects they compiled an online map velomesto.ru. Here's everything a city cyclist needs to know!
But what to do if you can’t reach your route by bike? Mobile technology helps here too. Ride sharing services such as Dovezu.ru, Blablacar.ru or Poehali-vmeste.ru are becoming increasingly popular. Driving together is more environmentally friendly and cheaper, because gasoline consumption remains almost unchanged. More and more devices of all kinds are appearing that allow us to use our gadgets more environmentally. Here is an electricity storage device from the Ekomotors company. It allows you to accumulate “green” energy from
solar panels and wind generators, save energy at home and in the office, receive information about accumulated energy via a smartphone or tablet
And here is another Russian development - SVET LED lamps. They save energy and do not contain toxic mercury. The lamps are controlled using mobile application. The application adapts the lighting to be natural and optimal for health.
Russian scientist Evgeny Shkolnikov invented a unique charger that runs on environmentally friendly fuel - hydrogen.
And these are base stations of the MTS company, also powered by environmentally friendly
energy sources: solar panels, wind power plants and hydrogen.
MTS actively supports innovators who develop, among other things,
mobile technologies for the environment. Every year the company holds the Telecom Idea competition. Among its winners are many projects related to ecology - for example, a device for monitoring indoor air quality Atmosphere, a map of air pollution and sensors for forest fires and deforestation GreenAlarm.
By the way, such innovations are created not only by adults, but also by schoolchildren - just like you. Here is a project of young entrepreneurs from Khabarovsk - a NeoBackpack backpack with built-in solar panels, from which you can charge your smartphone, tablet or laptop.
MTS is holding a junior competition “Telecom Idea” especially for students in grades 7-11. It is held annually. The winners receive not only prizes, but also interesting prospects - such as a free trip to
summer scientific and educational school “Lift to the Future”.
But that's not all! Following our eco-lesson, two interesting competitions will be held.
The first of them is an Internet flash mob from the MTS company. To participate in it and win prizes, you can submit your own eco-advice for saving nature in the form of a photo and text. Details can be found in your pocket book!
The second competition is a competition of videos illustrating how the Internet and
Mobile technologies help nature. All details about this competition
Ekoneshka and her friends will inform you on social networks.
https://www.facebook.com/econeshka
https://vk.com/econeshka
http://ok.ru/group/53032257585380
Conclusion.
The teacher distributes to students blanks of pocket mods - pocket books that are folded in a special way with their own hands.
The books describe creative homework (Appendix No. 1).
Appendix No. 1
List of Internet resources:
1.https://www.facebook.com/econeshka
2.https://vk.com/econeshka 3.http://ok.ru/group/53032257585380
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