Samsung Wins EPA Awards for New, Legacy Recycling Programs

Samsung said Thursday it received an EPA award for its Galaxy Upcycling program, which allows phone owners to retrofit the hardware and software of outdated, used Galaxy phones into new products such as closed-circuit TVs, game consoles and IoT devices. The program, created from Samsung’s C-Lab innovation hub, will launch in 2018, said the company. Samsung was also cited for e-waste collection efforts with its fourth consecutive Gold Tier award for recycling, it said. Samsung collected and “responsibly recycled” more than 118 million pounds of e-waste in the U.S., making it one of the world’s biggest collectors of e-waste, it said.