SKT Reuses Discarded IT Devices to Support Digital Education for Vulnerable Children
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SK Telecom said it will hold the E-Waste resource-circulation campaign "RE:FINE Day" on the 3rd to expand its circular-economy strategy "RE:FINE" into employees' daily lives.
The campaign is divided into collecting discarded IT devices and resource-circulation education for children, and employees bring unused smartphones, feature phones, tablets and laptops from home or the office to headquarters.
The collected devices are sorted by ReMan after data deletion, and if they can be reused they are reused and remanufactured, while those that cannot are processed for parts and material recycling.
SK Telecom (SKT) announced that it will hold the E-Waste resource-circulation campaign "RE:FINE Day" on the 3rd to expand its SKT circular-economy strategy, "RE:FINE," which it established last year, through employees' everyday participation. The announcement came 6 days before "Resource Circulation Day." RE:FINE Day is a campaign in which employees and future generations take part.
"RE:FINE" is a method of managing the use and recovery of resources centered on Reuse, Recycle and Reduce. The strategy is also linked to environmental education for future generations. RE:FINE Day is intended to extend this strategy into employees' daily lives.
This campaign is divided into collecting discarded IT devices and resource-circulation education for children. SK Telecom will collect and reuse unused smartphones and tablets and other discarded IT devices. Employees bring unused smartphones, feature phones, tablets and laptops from home or the office to headquarters, thereby taking part in resource circulation.
SK Telecom will also provide resource-circulation education for children. In addition, it will support digital education for children in vulnerable groups. The campaign was designed to link resource-circulation practices through the collection and reuse of discarded IT devices with education for future generations.
The collected devices will be handled by ReMan, a social enterprise that processes IT devices, which will delete the data and sort the devices by condition. Products that can be reused will be reused or remanufactured, while those that are difficult to use will be processed for parts and material recycling.
SKT plans to assess the condition and potential for use of the recovered devices. It will provide remanufactured digital devices in an amount corresponding to the results of that assessment to children in vulnerable groups, with the donations delivered through the National Association of Community Child Centers. The devices will be used for children's digital education and access to information.
An online campaign for employees and family members who cannot participate in person will run through the 30th. Participants will receive a data-deletion report, carbon-neutral practice points and a donation certificate. Yuhan-Kimberly, an ESG agreement partner of SKT, also ran the same campaign.
Environmental education for future generations was also conducted alongside the campaign. Children at SKT's in-house daycare center took part in classes using environmental picture books, picture puzzles and making upcycled flowerpots. Through this, they learned the meaning of resource circulation and how to practice it in daily life.
Eom Jong-hwan, head of SKT's Sustainability Management Office, said that IT devices stored unused can also be reused as devices that support the growth of future generations if they go through safe procedures. He added that the company will expand the recycling of telecommunications infrastructure in line with growth trends in the AX and ICT industries and will continue broadening resource-circulation models such as eco-friendly distribution networks.
Source: TECHWORLD · Kim Seung-gi
Original: https://www.epnc.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=406539
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