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Motorola has cut its carbon footprint by 20 percent, compared to 2005 levels. Its 2008 carbon footprint was 535,377 tons of CO2 equivalent.

By 2010, the mobile phone and electronics manufacturer has committed to reduce its absolute greenhouse gas emissions to 6 percent below 2000 levels, according to its 2008 corporate responsibility report.

Here are some of Motorola’s advances in sustainability.

• Motorola began marketing the Moto W233 Renew mobile phone, which it calls the world’s first CarbonFree-certified phone. Constructed of polycarbonate from recycled post-consumer water cooler bottles, it was certified by Carbonfund.org…..

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