April 21, 2010
Motorola Struggles to Meet CO2 Emissions, Waste Reduction Goals
Motorola has reduced its CO2 emissions by 35 percent since 2005 thanks to energy-efficiency efforts, buying renewable energy and consolidating facilities, according to the company’s 2009 Corporate Responsibility Report. Despite reducing total emissions of CO2e since 2005, Motorola said normalized emissions increased slightly due to weaker sales in 2009.
As a result, the consumer electronics giant has set a new strategy to reduce its climate impact, including new goals for absolute and normalized emission reductions. Motorola has committed to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions from operations by 15 percent….
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I am glad that Motorola is making the moves it is making. I would like to request nonetheless, that Environmental Leader not use terms like ‘eco-friendly’ when the tremendous impacts in a phone come not from the plastic shell, as good as recycled plastic is directionally. The impacts come from the mining and production of the metals and rare earth metals that make up the brains and batteries; the use, and very importantly, the batteries and leaching in a landfill (recycling rates are negligible). None of these are remotely environmentally friendly.
So Yay for environmental improvements. AND, let’s have the transparency that would allow us to see the impact of these improvements relative to the total environmental impacts of a phone (including use and disposal). The manufacturing stage represents a couple of percentage points max of total environmental impacts from production of phone. Bring in use and disposal and it may well be a fraction of a percent.
Caroline | April 22nd, 2010