The separate collection and the environment in a cellphone: head-to-head between Apple and Nokia

by Paolo Ghiga

The world of recycling is getting more full of news and encouragement for us collectors who are called to a great responsibility and a threshold of concern relating to differentiate in terms of construction.
A Further aid for holders of iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, arrives on AppStore.
The designers of Artbits SNC by Fabio Trezzi, young softwarehouse web oriented (Magenta - Milan), released an update to a utility, named "Differenziata", able to program on a daily basis the divestiture of over 200 products. Among the duties of this application, reached version 1.2, dimensions contained enough, 0.3 Mb, the ability to search among the waste to be divested.
Moreover, in order to facilitate navigation, has changed graphics, in particular, while the calendar icons allows the planning weekly collection is constantly adapting to the area of residence of the user. The impression is that this is a valid instrument although the guest comments are still a few to release a larger judgment.

If holders of iPhone, iPod touch and iPad spirit ecologist have one more reason to be proud of their smartphones, even users of Nokia, from 22 April, the Earth Day, can be deemed to be met: the Nokia has made 8 "green" applications for its next-generation mobiles, downloadable from Ovi store directly. It goes from Green Charging save energy, to optimize and save the energy of the phone and at the same time help to reduce global warming, the WWF EcoGuru, free tool, able to calculate the personal carbon footprint. Interesting seems to be the Climate Mission, other free application, in a way similar to the Apple and that educates to the environment in a funny way. Some games in it, in fact, put to the test the user on how to reorder the Junk to be sure to correctly, planting trees in the savana, helping farmers in India to maintain productive fields and keep clean the air with the help of ants, alphabetization in store carbon.

We like the idea of the application designed for mobile phone tool imperative of our days, definitely a fun way to raise awareness about environmental issues through a hi-tech within reach of many.