South Korea’s Samsung Electronics has announced a green management initiative which hopes to make it a leading eco-friendly company by the year 2013. In doing so, it pinpointed four core objectives as part of its “Eco-Management 2013″ plan, which includes:

    * Reducing emissions of greenhouse gas from manufacturing facilities by 50 percent while cutting indirect emissions from all products by 84 million tons
    * Ensuring all of its products are both eco-friendly and exceed global eco-mark standards
    * Investing approximately $4.3 billion in eco-management initiatives
    * Furthering green partnerships with suppliers and partners

The company will attempt to identify new recyclable and organic materials for use in items such as laptops and cell phones.

Researched by Maninder