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Smartphones and a Circular Economy; creating a sustainable future
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Given the critical need for action to mitigate the threat of climate change and to reduce the ever-increasing amount of e-waste created by the smartphone industry, there is a growing demand for OEMs to shift to a Circular Economy – a model of production and consumption which involves reusing, repairing, refurbishing and recycling existing materials and products as much as possible.
This report evaluates the top five global smartphone OEMs’ sustainability efforts using parameters that follow the stages of the Circular Economy – production, use and end of life – as well as their overall sustainability vision. It also then discusses what is needed to make circularity a standard business practice, and not just for ESG, CSR or marketing purposes.
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Dec 16, 2022
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Jan Stryjak
Jan is an Associate Director with Counterpoint Research, based in London, and leads the company’s research in Europe. He is a seasoned analyst with over 13 years’ experience in the TMT sector, most recently with GSMA Intelligence where he was responsible for key research deliverables and led a team of analysts producing highly impactful regional insights. Before that, Jan held strategy and analyst positions at Vodafone and Qualcomm, and started his career with research firm TNS (now Kantar).
Glen Cardoza
Glen is a Senior Research Analyst at Counterpoint Research looking after the smartphone ecosystem in Southeast Asia and the global refurbished smartphone market. He has done his MBA in marketing and joins Counterpoint after a 7-year stint in core market research with global players like Nielsen. He has experience in primary quantitative as well as qualitative research. His expertise lies in the telecommunication and automotive sectors.
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