Environmental Leader

Thanks for the article on the new report – my name is Suzanne Fallender and I work in Intel’s Corporate Responsibility Office and manage production of the CSR Report, so appreciate getting the visibility for the report and welcome comments and feedback from your readers. One of the things we aim to do in the report is provide a balanced view of our performance – we are committed to transparency and believe that providing information on our challenges is a key part of our stakeholder engagement approach. As you highlight, chemical waste is one area where we have had challenges in the past few years, and we continue to work to identify opportunities to reduce generation and improve our recycling rate. Across the other KPIs referenced where we saw slight increases in our absolute amounts from 2009 to 2010, I did want to provide some additional context that for many of those, we did achieve reductions when normalized to production from 2009 to 2010. We report both absolute and normalized to production figures together in the report to help stakeholders understand our environmental performance when production levels vary from year to year and in light of our continued expansion of our manufacturing capabilities and business growth (we had record revenues in 2010 and the rest of our financial/economic indicators in the report improved significantly from 2009 to 2010). We continued to make capital investments in 2010 to reduce our overall impact and fund innovative process improvements and projects in support of our objective to operate with the smallest environmental manufacturing footprint possible as we grow in the coming years. I welcome additional feedback either through this post or also through our CSR@Intel blog athttp://intel.ly/mFLafi or on Twitter at @Intel_CSR. Many thanks! Suzanne

Suzanne Fallender | May 24th, 2011

Hi Suzanne – Tamar Wilner here with Environmental Leader. I appreciate your comments and clarification on Intel’s 2010 CSR Report. I just wanted to note that the reason we focused on reporting absolute rather than relative numbers was because those were the figures emphasized in Intel’s reporting. In the executive summary (http://www.intel.com/Assets/PDF/Policy/CSR-exec-sum-2010.pdf), the key environmental indicators on the summary table on page 22 are all in absolute terms, except for chemical waste recycled/reused and solid waste recycled/reused, which are expressed as percentages of output. Perhaps this is something for Intel to keep in mind when it designs its next CSR report.
All the best
Tamar Wilner
Senior Editor
Environmental Leader

Environmental Leader | May 24th, 2011