Mobile communication offers you an excellent opportunity to live a more environmentally conscious life.
Avoid unnecessary travel by using technology. Before leaving home, use the Internet or your mobile phone to get information on traffic jams, opening hours, the availability of the products you want to buy, or the whereabouts of the persons you want to visit. By driving for 30 minutes in vain you waste more energy than your share of your mobile operators’ annual energy consumption and the energy used to charge your mobile phone in one year combined.
Video and teleconferencing are environmentally conscious alternatives to business flights. Saving 1,000 kms of flying reduces CO2 emissions by 120 to 150 kg per person.
If you can, buy an environmentally friendly handset. Products such as handsets with a solar cell, handsets made out of plant-based plastic, recycled plastic or other reused materials are available in the offering of more and more handset vendors. Packaging made out of recycled materials or electronic user manuals can also make a difference.
From 2012 on, vendors will provide uniform cell phone chargers for their handsets which will reduce the amount of raw materials and energy used in production and cut waste output.
If you have a mobile Internet subscription, you can download music and films electronically rather than buy a physical CD or DVD. By doing so, you can prevent these products from being manufactured, taken to the shop and from the shop to your home.
If you have a smartphone, you can use various mobile applications to cut your energy consumption and reduce your carbon footprint. Check out the applications capable of improving your environmental consciousness on the Internet.
You use a lot less energy if you use your mobile phone rather than your computer for e-mailing, Internet browsing or updating your profile on community sites.
In the future, mobile data communications will enable services with a potential to improve the efficiency of buildings, cities or even energy production and distribution systems and help us better husband natural resources.
If you want to buy a new handset, don’t throw your old phone away and don’t keep it in your drawer for a long time. Bring it to us and we’ll accept it for recycling in any Telenor shop. We also organize regular promotions offering a discount price on new handsets to customers exchanging their old phones.
