{"id":7452,"date":"2016-11-29T07:40:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T07:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.p4.greenpeace.org\/post\/samsung-can-you-hear-us\/"},"modified":"2019-11-06T09:49:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T08:49:13","slug":"samsung-can-you-hear-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/story\/7452\/samsung-can-you-hear-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung, can you hear us?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Over the past week we&#8217;ve watched as thousands of people around the world joined our <a href=\"https:\/\/act.greenpeace.org\/ea-action\/action?ea.client.id=1844&amp;ea.campaign.id=58008\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">urgent call<\/a> for Samsung to come up with a concrete plan to reuse or recycle 4.3 million Galaxy Note7s.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">From Hong Kong to Washington DC, you called Samsung\u2019s customer support number to ask exactly whether or not the devices will be disposed of environmentally; you tweeted #GalaxyNote7, which turned into a trending topic in Mexico and took the message directly to their HQ; and most of all you put pressure on Samsung to do the right thing!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13786\" style=\"width: 1209px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13786\" class=\"wp-image-13786 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-international-stateless\/2016\/11\/1cc04082-gp0stqbeo_medium_res.jpg\" alt=\"Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Teardown in Seoul \u00a9 Jungyeob Ji \/ Greenpeace\" width=\"1199\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-international-stateless\/2016\/11\/1cc04082-gp0stqbeo_medium_res.jpg 1199w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-international-stateless\/2016\/11\/1cc04082-gp0stqbeo_medium_res-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-international-stateless\/2016\/11\/1cc04082-gp0stqbeo_medium_res-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-international-stateless\/2016\/11\/1cc04082-gp0stqbeo_medium_res-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-international-stateless\/2016\/11\/1cc04082-gp0stqbeo_medium_res-510x340.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1199px) 100vw, 1199px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13786\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Teardown in Seoul<\/p><\/div>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\">Thank you for calling Samsung<\/h2>\n<p>People around the world picked up their phones and called Samsung directly to ask: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/story\/7443\/one-phone-call-could-savethegalaxy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cWhat\u2019s the plan?\u201d<\/a> Hundreds of people from Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Mexico, the US, the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Australia, Colombia and more took the power in their hands and asked for an answer.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The answer? Well, we heard responses like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cWe don\u2019t have that information\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cSamsung will destroy these phones.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201dI\u2019m sure they will recycle them.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cSamsung definitely does not recycle, ever\u2026.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\">Paying a visit\u2026<\/h2>\n<lite-youtube style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/jxjXUhMYQM8\/hqdefault.jpg');\" videoid=\"jxjXUhMYQM8\" params=\"rel=0\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Recently, our Greenpeace Korea colleagues took the message directly to Samsung\u2019s headquarters, calling on CEO Kwon Oh-hyun to show real leadership and rethink how they design their products and reuse the precious materials that go into making them.<\/p>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\">Tweeting to #SaveTheGalaxy<\/h2>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Meanwhile thousands of cyberactivists joined a 24-hour global tweetstorm to keep up the pressure and call on Samsung to #SaveTheGalaxy. Thanks to your actions, in Mexico we made #GalaxyNote7 a trending topic, whilst people were tweeting from every corner of the globe!<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"es\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SamsungMobile\">@SamsungMobile<\/a>, elige al planeta y toma la decisi\u00f3n correcta para el futuro de 4.3 millones de tel\u00e9fonos <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GalaxyNote7?src=hash\">#GalaxyNote7<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SaveTheGalaxy?src=hash\">#SaveTheGalaxy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sophia Castellanos (@QaLSophie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/QaLSophie\/status\/801193549278613508\">November 22, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"de\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/savethegalaxy?src=hash\">#savethegalaxy<\/a> Was wird Samsung mit den defekten und eingesammelten Handys Galaxy Note 7 tun und wann wird die \u00d6ffentlickeit informiert ?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michaela Couturier (@MichaRainbow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MichaRainbow\/status\/802139049263853568\">November 25, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SamsungMobile\">@SamsungMobile<\/a>: it\u2019s time to address your impact on the planet. Be transparent and show us your plan for the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GalaxyNote7?src=hash\">#GalaxyNote7<\/a>! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SaveTheGalaxy?src=hash\">#SaveTheGalaxy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CarolineHansley (@HansleyCaroline) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HansleyCaroline\/status\/801566567565824000\">November 23, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Thanks to you we are sure that Samsung has heard our message loud and clear! Now it\u2019s time for the tech giant to get its story straight and give us an answer &#8211; the right answer for our planet.<\/p>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\">How can I be part of the solution?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/greenpeace.org\/savethegalaxy\">Join the 30,000 people that have signed our global petition to save 4.3 million Galaxy Note7 phones from destruction<\/a><\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/story\/7443\/one-phone-call-could-savethegalaxy\/\">Call Samsung and ask for an answer<\/a><\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">Share this blog with your friends \/ network on Twitter or Facebook<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Robin Perkins is the Detox Programme Leader\u200b\u200b at Greenpeace M\u00e9xico<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past week we&#8217;ve watched as thousands of people around the world joined our urgent call for Samsung to come up with a concrete plan to reuse or recycle 4.3 million Galaxy Note7s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":13786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_planet4_optimize_post_is_variant":false,"_planet4_optimize_experiment_name":"","_planet4_optimize_variant_name":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[69,73],"tags":[65,67,88],"p4-page-type":[59],"class_list":["post-7452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","category-social-and-economic-systems","tag-energy-revolution","tag-consumption","tag-coal","p4-page-type-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7452"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26131,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7452\/revisions\/26131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7452"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=7452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}