Galaxy’s journey to a more
sustainable world
Eco-conscious packaging, recycled materials and more. Here’s how Samsung plans to achieve a lighter environmental impact with mobile products by 2025.
The effects of climate change are being felt by communities around the world every day, and it’s clear that people will exhaust the Earth’s natural resources if everyone doesn’t change the way materials are used.
When it comes to fighting climate change, everyone has a role to play. Samsung is dedicated to providing innovations that enrich people’s lives and foster a better, more open world — including our work to advance global efforts to combat climate change.
To do our part, we’re committing to acting more sustainably across our mobile business through Galaxy for the Planet, our new sustainability commitments. We’re reimagining a better world through everything we do, from product design to reusable and recyclable eco-conscious packaging in more of our products each year.
How we’ll reduce our environmental impact by 2025
This journey begins with four commitments that help minimize our environmental impact from production to recycling of all mobile products by 2025.
Incorporate recycled material in all new mobile products
We’re helping create a more circular economy where materials can be recycled and reused rather than sent to landfills. For example, we’re providing more sustainable options for everyone by investing in new, innovative eco-conscious materials for our mobile products.
Eliminate all plastics in mobile packaging
Samsung is committed to incorporating eco-conscious solutions and reducing, removing and replacing unnecessary materials traditionally used in device packaging. We’re working to eliminate single-use plastics from product packaging — Galaxy S21 packaging contains only 4% plastic compared to the 51% plastic packaging of the Galaxy S7 in 2016. We're also using sustainably forested fiber in our mobile and home entertainment packaging.
Reduce stand-by power consumption of all smartphone chargers
We believe energy-saving technology is critical to reducing overall power consumption and increasing energy efficiency across our products. Stand-by power consumption — when your charger remains plugged in after your phone is fully charged or disconnected — is a major contributor to power waste. We’ve reduced stand-by power consumption across all smartphone chargers¹ to 0.02W, and we’ll work to get that number below 0.005W by 2025. This means we’re enabling our users to save energy without even realizing it — helping them curb carbon emissions while they sleep.
Achieve zero waste to landfill and reduce e-waste
We’re dedicated to diverting all waste from landfills and minimizing waste generated across our mobile worksites. To achieve this, we're continuing to reduce e-waste on a global scale by optimizing the product lifecycle, improving product design processes and continuing initiatives like Galaxy Upcycling, Certified Re-Newed, and Trade-In programs. Across all of these efforts, Samsung is putting materials and resources back to work for new purposes, rather than sending them to a landfill.
Maintaining our commitments
Powered by our scale, innovation and spirit of open collaboration, Galaxy for the Planet defines how Samsung will take tangible climate action across our business. We’ll continue to join forces with our customers, partners and industry peers to accelerate and amplify sustainable solutions globally, and work to evolve how we address the environmental challenges we face in coming years.
Give your Galaxy a new life
When you buy an eligible phone, we’ll recycle or repurpose your old phone at no cost.
Galaxy Z Fold3 5G
Galaxy Z Flip3 5G
Galaxy S21 | S21+ 5G
- 1Based on standby power levels in 15W, 25W and 45W Galaxy smartphone chargers.
- *S Pen Fold Edition sold separately and is compatible only with the main display of the Galaxy Z Fold3 5G.
