In line with its Corporate Responsibility platform, Vodafone systematically implements environmental programmes which directly address the environmental effects of the company’s operation. Vodafone was the first Greek telecommunications company to introduce a household battery recycling programme, now about to end its second year of successful operation.

From the launch of the programme in November 2005 to this day, over 5.4 tons of household batteries have been collected. In Vodafone’s 380 outlets there are special used household battery collection bins, which can also be found in all company facilities throughout Greece, allowing people with an environmental awareness – employees, customers, and the broader public - to contribute in their own way towards protecting the environment. The collected household batteries are sent on by AFIS (Portable Battery Recycling Organization) to a plant in Germany which specializes in recycling.

Evidence shows that people have come to perceive Vodafone’s outlet network as a point where household batteries are collected and have responded to the company’s initiative, which brings a substantial benefit for public health and environmental protection. Batteries contain elements which, if discarded with refuse, will find their way to groundwater and burden the environment. For example, the amount of cadmium contained in nickel-cadmium batteries is enough to contaminate 1/3 of the water in an Olympic size swimming pool.

For more information about Vodafone’s Environment-geared actions and, more broadly, actions geared to Corporate Responsibility, which include the particular programme, please visit Vodafone’s website (www.vodafone.gr / The Company / Corporate Responsibility) where you can find Vodafone’s 5th Corporate Responsibility Report.

For more information, please contact:

Ms Katerina Papakonstantinou, Corporate Communications Manager, tel. 210 6702166, mob. 6944 800070, fax 210 6702376, e-mail katerina.papakonstantinou@vodafone.com

Ms Christina Morfogeni, Senior Media Relations Coordinator, tel.210 6702365, mob. 6944 600955, e-mail christina.morfogeni@vodafone.com