All items tagged with recycled plastic (20)

Shure Achieves Sustainable Packaging Goals in 2023, on Track for 90% Recyclable and/or Renewable Packaging for New Products by 2025

April 18, 2024 by Joao Martins

Shure Achieves Sustainable Packaging Goals in 2023, on Track for 90% Recyclable and/or Renewable Packaging for New Products by 2025

In 2022, Shure announced aggressive goals to increase recyclable and/or renewable packaging for new products. Shure has achieved its goal to convert to 75 percent by 2023 and is on track to grow to 90 percent by 2025 and 100 percent by 2030 for new packaging. The goal for existing product packaging in 2025 is 75 percent recyclable and/or renewable.

Skullcandy Challenges Wasteful Battery Production with Ecobuds Sustainable Earbuds

March 5, 2024 by Joao Martins

Skullcandy Challenges Wasteful Battery Production with Ecobuds Sustainable Earbuds

Skullcandy announced its newest EcoBuds True Wireless Earbuds, which are touted as the brand's most sustainable product to date. The bold new design introduces a battery-free charging case, and boasts a 50% lower carbon footprint than similar products. Not only are the Skullcandy Ecobuds made with recycled materials, the company suggests that its new Bluetooth 5.2 earbuds will be perfectly fine working up to 8 hours a day, while 10 minutes of charging will give users 2 hours of playtime.

Logitech Commits to Transition Collaboration Portfolio to Recycled Plastic and Next Life Materials

February 1, 2024 by audioXpress Staff

Logitech Commits to Transition Collaboration Portfolio to Recycled Plastic and Next Life Materials

Logitech the company headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland, and San Jose, California, which owns brands Logitech, Logitech G, Streamlabs, Jaybird, Blue, and Ultimate Ears, announced that all its Logitech video conferencing and collaboration portfolio will now be designed for sustainability, using materials that lower the carbon impact of each product. This expands from previous important initiatives that Logitech pioneered in the consumer space such as the innovative Logitech G435 wireless headsets.

Urbanista Unveils Second Generation Headphones and TWS Earbuds with Powerfoyle Solar Cell Technology

January 4, 2024 by audioXpress Staff

Urbanista Unveils Second Generation Headphones and TWS Earbuds with Powerfoyle Solar Cell Technology

Urbanista, the Swedish lifestyle audio brand, announced the new and advanced Urbanista Los Angeles headphones and Urbanista Phoenix true wireless earbuds, the next generation of its innovative light powered audio products with integrated Powerfoyle solar cell material from Exeger. The two all-new updated self-charging models will be the highlight for Urbanista at CES 2024.

AIAIAI Introduces UNIT-4 Wireless+ Portable Studio Monitors

September 26, 2023 by Joao Martins

AIAIAI Introduces UNIT-4 Wireless+ Portable Studio Monitors

AIAIAI surprises once again. After launching the TMA-2 Wireless+ headphones using its own low-latency, uncompressed, 16-bit digital audio wireless protocol, the Danish innovators now announced the world’s first portable wireless studio monitors. Using the same W+ Link technology, AIAIAI designed a set of studio monitors that break free from cables, with both audio and power cables removed. The UNIT-4 Wireless+ are battery-powered, portable 2-way reference monitors, retailing for €800 EUR a pair.

Voice Coil Focus: A Fresh Take on Green Audio 2023

June 14, 2023 by Mike Klasco

Voice Coil Focus: A Fresh Take on Green Audio 2023

Good intentions for sustainability, circularity, or simply reducing your carbon foot-print in the development or manufacturing stages not always produces the intended results. Mike Klasco reminds us how things are not always as simple as we would like, and that having good intentions and throwing empty claims might work on paper, but not actually work in the real world.

Skullcandy Smokin' Buds Set a New Standard for True Wireless Earbuds Under $20

May 25, 2023 by Joao Martins

Skullcandy Smokin' Buds Set a New Standard for True Wireless Earbuds Under $20

Skullcandy announced a new model of true wireless earbuds that basically don't do anything but provide for wireless music listening for $19.99 MSRP. The new Smokin' Buds do support USB-C rapid charge and are part of the company's new environmentally-conscious initiatives, using 50% certified recycled plastics, a consolidated part count and mindful battery capacity, minimizing the stress on the environment. A new reference from a respected brand.

Samsung Unveils Updated Galaxy Buds2 Pro with New Hi-Res 24-bit Hi-Fi Codec

August 10, 2022 by Joao Martins

Samsung Unveils Updated Galaxy Buds2 Pro with New Hi-Res 24-bit Hi-Fi Codec

As it happens every year with the companies that attempt to follow Apple's model of promoting a large impact event to announce new products, Samsung just promoted something similar to unveil its new Galaxy foldable smartphones, and used the opportunity to also unveil the new Galaxy true wireless earbuds with all the latest features. The new Galaxy Buds2 Pro are Bluetooth 5.3 earbuds with multipoint connectivity, featuring new 2-way coaxial drivers and also introduce a new Samsung codec for 24-bit Hi-Res Audio streaming.

Harman InfinityLab Delivers Pocket-Sized 4-Port 100W GaN Charger Powered by GaN Systems

July 28, 2022 by audioXpress Staff

Harman InfinityLab Delivers Pocket-Sized 4-Port 100W GaN Charger Powered by GaN Systems

GaN Systems announced that Harman's new InfinityLab InstantCharger 100W, 4 USB GaN fast-charger leverages the high-performance advantages of GaN Systems' transistors and is just the latest product to be launched by the new innovative brand. With GaN Systems’ GS-065-011-1-L power transistor, the InfinityLab charger, made from 90% recycled plastics, harnesses the power of GaN to deliver the ultimate lightweight power adapter for consumers.

Some Thoughts on Plastics for Speaker Enclosures

April 7, 2022 by Mike Klasco

Some Thoughts on Plastics for Speaker Enclosures

Discussing speaker enclosures, this article examines all the different options for plastic applications and the implications for loudspeaker driver design in general. Enclosure characteristics, construction features, advantage comparisons between wood and wood particle board cabinets, and production techniques are some of the topics explored. This article was published in Voice Coil, March 2022.

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