http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/atandt-moves-toward-eco-friendly-packaging-earns-our-approbation/ Engadget Comments for AT&T moves toward eco-friendly packaging, earns our approbation http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/atandt-moves-toward-eco-friendly-packaging-earns-our-approbation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/atandt-moves-toward-eco-friendly-packaging-earns-our-approbation/Mar 5th 2010 5:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/atandt-moves-toward-eco-friendly-packaging-earns-our-approbation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/atandt-moves-toward-eco-friendly-packaging-earns-our-approbation/
Please don't say anything about online only billing. They'll start charging a "'convenience' fee" instead.]]>Mar 5th 2010 5:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/atandt-moves-toward-eco-friendly-packaging-earns-our-approbation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/atandt-moves-toward-eco-friendly-packaging-earns-our-approbation/
Exactly, the saving eventually won't apply to "we the people". Good for saving trees and make company even more money and nothing else. I hope they use those money they save to hire more customer support and not just pocketed themselves.]]>Mar 5th 2010 6:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/atandt-moves-toward-eco-friendly-packaging-earns-our-approbation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/atandt-moves-toward-eco-friendly-packaging-earns-our-approbation/Mar 5th 2010 7:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/atandt-moves-toward-eco-friendly-packaging-earns-our-approbation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/atandt-moves-toward-eco-friendly-packaging-earns-our-approbation/Mar 5th 2010 8:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/atandt-moves-toward-eco-friendly-packaging-earns-our-approbation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/atandt-moves-toward-eco-friendly-packaging-earns-our-approbation/Mar 5th 2010 6:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/atandt-moves-toward-eco-friendly-packaging-earns-our-approbation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/atandt-moves-toward-eco-friendly-packaging-earns-our-approbation/Mar 5th 2010 6:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/atandt-moves-toward-eco-friendly-packaging-earns-our-approbation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/atandt-moves-toward-eco-friendly-packaging-earns-our-approbation/
Those things are complete trash.]]>Mar 5th 2010 7:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/atandt-moves-toward-eco-friendly-packaging-earns-our-approbation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/atandt-moves-toward-eco-friendly-packaging-earns-our-approbation/Mar 5th 2010 7:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/atandt-moves-toward-eco-friendly-packaging-earns-our-approbation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/atandt-moves-toward-eco-friendly-packaging-earns-our-approbation/An applicable question: does having instructions, etc. on the internet only, instead of in printed form, actually mean less waste? In order to read the manual, a person has to have their computer and monitor running, connected to the internet and a powered server farm, and spend that time reading what they need to find scrolling through a PDF. That all uses energy. As long as that device is being supported, say for around five years, that infrastructure needs to remain in place.

Printing a small manual is a one time cost of energy and resources instead of a renewing resource, and potentially saves user time because they can flip straight through the manual quickly and find what they need, no lengthy scrolling or guessing applicable keywords.

I am not sure which is more eco-friendly ... I fear it may not be as clear cut as we would hope. From a user perspective, I'd rather have the small paper manual to help get over the learning curve, even if it directs me to a webpage to solve an obscure problem I'm unique enough to have; but that's just my personal preference. ]]>Mar 5th 2010 9:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/atandt-moves-toward-eco-friendly-packaging-earns-our-approbation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/atandt-moves-toward-eco-friendly-packaging-earns-our-approbation/I guess, including manuals only starts becoming really wasteful when the manufacturer includes manuals in multiple languages (here in Europe you'll often find as many as ten manuals with devices).]]>Mar 5th 2010 4:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/atandt-moves-toward-eco-friendly-packaging-earns-our-approbation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/atandt-moves-toward-eco-friendly-packaging-earns-our-approbation/Mar 5th 2010 7:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/atandt-moves-toward-eco-friendly-packaging-earns-our-approbation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/atandt-moves-toward-eco-friendly-packaging-earns-our-approbation/
Job patent the word "Steve"... Opps I've said it, he gonna sue the pants off of me.]]>Mar 5th 2010 7:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/atandt-moves-toward-eco-friendly-packaging-earns-our-approbation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/atandt-moves-toward-eco-friendly-packaging-earns-our-approbation/Mar 5th 2010 9:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/atandt-moves-toward-eco-friendly-packaging-earns-our-approbation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/atandt-moves-toward-eco-friendly-packaging-earns-our-approbation/Mar 5th 2010 9:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/atandt-moves-toward-eco-friendly-packaging-earns-our-approbation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/atandt-moves-toward-eco-friendly-packaging-earns-our-approbation/
During the years of Apple's meteoric rise they were rated the worst environmental offender in the CE industry, every time, and it didn't affect their sales or their image at all.

The few who actually heard about this, and wanted to like Apple anyway, just bought into Apple's "shoot the messenger" campaign (the messenger was Greenpeace).

So, perhaps some opportunistic announcements about green products produces free publicity, but good environmental policy will just cost a company money and doesn't help at all.]]>Mar 5th 2010 9:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/atandt-moves-toward-eco-friendly-packaging-earns-our-approbation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/atandt-moves-toward-eco-friendly-packaging-earns-our-approbation/Mar 5th 2010 9:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/atandt-moves-toward-eco-friendly-packaging-earns-our-approbation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/atandt-moves-toward-eco-friendly-packaging-earns-our-approbation/http://www.helixwind.com/

Can you imagine the hundreds of Millions of dollars in saving with nominal up front investment? Matter of fact these cell site add-ons will probably produce more energy than the cell site needs to operate. The extra power could be fed back into the grid or help supplement power for communities. Oh, and if you were nice you could lower our bills since a substantial operating cost (powering cell sites) would be darn near "0"!! ]]>Mar 5th 2010 10:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/atandt-moves-toward-eco-friendly-packaging-earns-our-approbation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/atandt-moves-toward-eco-friendly-packaging-earns-our-approbation/Mar 5th 2010 11:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/atandt-moves-toward-eco-friendly-packaging-earns-our-approbation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/atandt-moves-toward-eco-friendly-packaging-earns-our-approbation/Mar 5th 2010 11:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/atandt-moves-toward-eco-friendly-packaging-earns-our-approbation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/atandt-moves-toward-eco-friendly-packaging-earns-our-approbation/
RING RING

Hello is this AT&T? It is? Great... I just wanted to let you know that Sprint has already started doing this and decided to take it one step further by requiring all new phones also be made of a more green technology, cut their waste products and off-set their energy usage by implementing solar panels at their HQ. . So...ummmm... Dont be upset when no one cares. Talk to you soon bye now.

CLICK]]>Mar 5th 2010 11:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/atandt-moves-toward-eco-friendly-packaging-earns-our-approbation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/atandt-moves-toward-eco-friendly-packaging-earns-our-approbation/
And if people cared about what their phones were made of or packaged in it may mean something for Sprint, but their dwindling subscriber base is proof people care more about service than eco crap.]]>Mar 5th 2010 12:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/atandt-moves-toward-eco-friendly-packaging-earns-our-approbation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/atandt-moves-toward-eco-friendly-packaging-earns-our-approbation/
And if people cared about actual service, then they would select Sprint or Verizon over AT&T - the difference between "service" at Sprint and AT&T is that while Im on Sprint I have service. I cant say the same for my friends on AT&T.]]>Mar 5th 2010 1:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/atandt-moves-toward-eco-friendly-packaging-earns-our-approbation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/atandt-moves-toward-eco-friendly-packaging-earns-our-approbation/Mar 5th 2010 12:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/atandt-moves-toward-eco-friendly-packaging-earns-our-approbation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/atandt-moves-toward-eco-friendly-packaging-earns-our-approbation/Mar 5th 2010 2:10PM