{"id":6508,"date":"2012-02-23T15:35:15","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T14:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=6508"},"modified":"2012-02-23T15:35:15","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T14:35:15","slug":"how-earth-friendly-is-your-smartphone-att-wants-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2012\/02\/23\/how-earth-friendly-is-your-smartphone-att-wants-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"How Earth-Friendly Is Your Smartphone? AT&#038;T Wants to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2012\/02\/23\/earth-friendly-smartphone-att\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6509\" title=\"How Earth-Friendly Is Your Smartphone? AT&amp;T Wants to Know\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/120223_att.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>How \u201cgreen\u201d is your smartphone? AT&amp;T\u2019s new program will rate the environmental impact of devices in its portfolio. The Eco-Rating program will launch later this year, and the rating will be noted on the packaging of each AT&amp;T device. In a <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/youtube\/\">YouTube<\/a> video posted Wednesday, Jeff Bradley, senior vice president, devices, of  AT&amp;T Mobility says, \u201cthe labeling system will be pretty  straightforward.\u201d AT&amp;T\u2019s Eco-Rating system will let consumers know how their  smartphones are treating the planet. Smartphones will be judged in four  categories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Energy efficiency<\/li>\n<li>Environmentally preferred materials<\/li>\n<li>Responsible end-of-life treatment<\/li>\n<li>Environmentally responsible manufacturing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) \u2013 a sustainability  consulting firm \u2013 developed the Eco-Rating tool with AT&amp;T. In the  YouTube video, Vijay Kanal, director, information and communications  technology at BSR, says the program will analyze factors such as how  easily a smartphone\u2019s battery can be recycled and the resources used to  produced those devices. A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/82512621\/Deloitte-Survey\" target=\"_blank\">survey by Deloitte<\/a> shows that 54 percent of more than 6,000 people surveyed \u201cconsider  sustainability to be one of their decision-making factors in product and  store selection.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2012\/02\/23\/earth-friendly-smartphone-att\/\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country: USA | Company: AT&amp;T | Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2012\/02\/23\/earth-friendly-smartphone-att\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mashable<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How \u201cgreen\u201d is your smartphone? AT&amp;T\u2019s new program will rate the environmental impact of devices in its portfolio. The Eco-Rating program will launch later this year, and the rating will be noted on the packaging of each AT&amp;T device. In a YouTube video posted Wednesday, Jeff Bradley, senior vice president, devices, of AT&amp;T Mobility says,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[313],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-6508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-att","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6508"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=6508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}