Samsung gets awarded for its efforts to reduce its carbon footprint to create an eco-friendlier high-capacity flash storage product. Samsung receives its first Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) certificate in Korea with Samsung’s 512Gb 64-layer 3bit V-NAND and the Samsung 860 EVO 4TB solid-state drive.

About Environmental Product Declaration

The Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) certification system in Korea acknowledges a product’s performance in seven (7) key environmental concerns including carbon footprint, ozone depletion, acidification, resource footprint, water footprint, photochemical smog, and eutrophication.



In terms of per capacity (gigabit), the carbon emission of the 512Gb 3-bit V-NAND has been reduced to less than half of that of the 10-nanometer (nm)-class 64Gb V-NAND that was certified last year. An 8TB SSD composed with the 512Gb V-NAND can reduce approximately 240kg CO2 of carbon emission per year compared to an 8TB SSD product composed with the 64Gb NAND, producing the same effect as planting twenty-five 30-year-old trees.

While this is Samsung’s first for its solid-state drive products, Samsung earned its first low carbon footprint certification back in 2009 for Samsung’s DDR3 DRAM server module. Since then, Samsung aims to expand its environmental certification portfolio across all its products including SSD, LPDDR, NAND Flash and application processors.

Check out Samsung’s memory and flash products at https://www.samsung.com/uk/memory-storage/