As a accountable provider, it’s paramount that VIAVI continues to scrutinize every thing we do and establish areas to make sustainability enhancements. It’s incumbent on companies and people alike to make sure we mitigate our influence on our planet.
VIAVI is performing day by day to try to guarantee we’re doing proper by the Earth. One such instance is the packaging initiative that’s underway with the objective of making certain that we’re reusing as a lot as we will and recycling something that may’t be reused. Reusable packaging is all the time the choice, so it is important to constantly have a look at processes and supplies all through the availability chain, make enhancements and attempt to make sure that we’re environment friendly and sustainable. Though VIAVI is already compliant with world packaging rules, we consider there’s nonetheless extra that we will do to attenuate our influence on the setting. Now we have eight focus areas which might be engaged on in the present day:
- Design for restoration
- Materials effectivity
- Design for product waste discount
- Elimination of hazardous supplies
- Use of recycled supplies
- Use of renewable supplies
- Design for transport effectivity
- Provision of sustainability info for our clients to allow them to calculate their carbon influence precisely
Now we have made nice strides in the previous couple of years via our program of steady packaging enchancment. Listed below are some highlights.
- VIAVI is a member of the Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation and we’ve adopted lots of their pointers to assist us on this highway to even higher renewable, recycling and sustainable outcomes.
- We’re starting to trace how a lot packaging of various sorts we use by weight every year and we’re investigating how extra of those supplies could possibly be made out of renewable or recycled sources, be reused, or be recycled.
- We’re working carefully with our contract and in-house manufacturing services around the globe to search out even small alternatives to enhance our sustainability and we’ll develop motion plans in place to appreciate the alternatives that we’ve recognized collectively.
The most recent leap we’ve made is coming to fruition now. We’re proud to offer a scheme to gather all our packaging from any of our clients, wherever on the earth. All our buyer has to do is tell us that the packaging is prepared for assortment, and we’ll do the remainder. Our purpose is to make sure that the supplies collected could be recycled, reused or disposed of in an environmentally accountable method. This scheme is along with the gathering, recycling and disposal of end-of-life digital tools that we already undertake throughout Europe.
Earth Day is on 22nd April 2022 and is a chance for each companies and people to behave (boldly), innovate (broadly), and implement (equitably). Take into consideration how one can become involved and #InvestInOurPlanet.
