Bamboo concept phone

By Joseph Hanlon on 03 March 2008

In response to an online greener gadgets competition, Dutch designer Gert-Jan van Breugel has conceived a fantastic looking phone with components made from completely recyclable bio-plastic and bamboo.

In his submission Van Breugel quotes some pretty unsettling statistics, including that the environmental impact of making a mobile is 36kg of CO2, and that only about 10% of discarded phones are recycled.

Bamboo is a phone designed to breakdown at the end of its usable life. The bamboo component goes in your compost bin and bamboo seeds inside the case transform it into a plant that will offset the environmental impact of manufacturing the phone.

Credit: Core77

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Clumdedum
04/03/2008 07:42 PM

I'll buy one at any price! When will it be out to buy?! This is a truly amazing invention!

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07/06/2008 10:29 PM

This looks like it can be a Hop-On disposable phone competitor.

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