Paper sim cards developed for Samsung Blue Earth

Portuguese telephone service provider TMN has joined the list of companies making an effort to protect the environment. TMN has collaborated with sim card suppliers Incard and Toppan to make sim cards from recycled paper to be supplied with the new eco-friendly phone, Samsung Blue Earth. Although you might think that making a sim card out of paper won’t have a great effect on the environment, but when you consider the plastic card which it is punched out of and the huge numbers in which sim cards are manufactured, this scheme seems to work.

This sim card is currently only available for Samsung’s Blue Earth but there are plans to make it available for other phones too in the near future. Samsung’s Blue Earth, having the unique feature of a solar panel at the back in addition to standard features is available for about $318 in Portugal.
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