Covestro provides new recycled material for smartphones

Covestro has announced that it is partnering with Fairphone, a Dutch company dedicated to building an environmentally friendly smartphone market, to provide more recycled material solutions for its smartphones

Hu Nan, vice president of the global electrical and electronic industry market of Covestro's engineering plastics division, said that in addition to providing fully and partially recycled thermoplastic polyurethane materials for the protective cases of Fairphone 3 and the new generation of Fairphone 4 mobile phones, Covestro partially recycled polycarbonate Ester material solutions have also been applied to the Fairphone 4

He introduced that the Fairphone 4 parts made of Covestro post-consumer recycled (PCR) polycarbonate material include the back cover, middle frame and wireless charger

In addition, Covestro has also developed a new series of recycled and partially recycled materials under Desmopan TPU, which have been applied to the Fairphone 4 protective case, and have passed the RCS (Recycled Claim Standard) international standard certification focusing on the traceability of the supply chain of recyclable raw materials