Motorola MOTO W233 Renew Eco Friendly Cell Phone [Made From Recycled Plastic Bottles]

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Motorola have today announced a range of new cell phones which includes the Motorola MOTO W233 Renew which boasts considerable green credentials on account of being the world’s first cell phone to feature a casing made from recyled plastic bottles.

Introduced by Jeremy Dale, corporate vice president, global marketing, Motorola Mobile Devices, who states that ‘“Today, natural resources, energy and time are more precious than ever before. From the product’s design, to the packaging to our partnership with Carbonfund.org, we wanted to ensure that this device makes the right impact with consumers and the environment.” the Motorola MOTO W233 Renew, thanks to using recycled plastic not only serves to utilise otherwise materials that may otherwise make there way to landfills but, because of the nature of the plastic used, the Motorola MOTO W233 Renew’s casing itself as just as recyclable once the handset faces being disposed of.

Additionally, serving to underpin the MOTO W233 Renew’s eco-friendly appeal Motorola also state that the handset’s associated packaging is comprised of ‘100 percent post-consumer recycled paper’ even comes inclusive of a postage paid envelope with which you can post off the handset the MOTO W233 Renew is replacing for recycling.

Of the (very few) actual details released concerning the MOTO W233 Renew’s technical capabilities Motorola have, at the time of writing, merely confirmed that the MOTO W233 Renew is a dual-band 850/1900 GSM/EDGE handset with CrystalTalk technology offering nine hours of talktime and that it excepts microSD memory cards and that it’ll become available in the US in the first quarter of 09 via T-Mobile.