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Microsoft aims to achieve ‘zero waste’ goals by 2030

| Updated: August 08, 2020 10:54:26


Microsoft aims to achieve ‘zero waste’ goals by 2030

Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday announced the goal to achieve ‘zero waste’ for the company's direct operations, products and packaging by 2030.

To address waste creation, Microsoft will reduce nearly as much waste as it generates while reusing, repurposing or recycling solid, compost, electronics, construction and demolition, and hazardous wastes, reports Xinhua.

By 2030, the company will divert at least 90 per cent of the solid waste headed to landfills and incineration from campuses and data centres, manufacture 100 per cent recyclable Surface devices, use 100 per cent recyclable packaging (in Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, OECD, countries), and achieve at minimum 75 per cent diversion of construction and demolition waste for all projects.

The company will build a ‘first-of-their-kind’ Microsoft Circular Centres with the expectation to increase the reuse of servers and components by up to 90 per cent by 2025.

"Our ‘zero waste’ goal is the third sprint in Microsoft's broad environmental sustainability initiative launched earlier this year focusing on carbon, water, ecosystems and waste," said Microsoft President Brad Smith in the announcement.

"We will make new investments in Closed Loop Partners' funds. And finally, we'll enlist our own employees to reduce their own waste footprints," he added.

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