Google's Pixel and Nest products now made using recycled materials
28 October, 2020
Google said most of its new Pixel phone and Nest smart home products are now created with recycled material, an objective it has achieved at least 2 yrs ahead of target.
This past year, the Alphabet-owned company announced that of its products would include recycled materials by 2022.
“Concentrate on incorporating recycled materials in our hardware design not only supports our sustainability commitments … but also enables our supply chain partners to confidently invest in and develop these kinds of materials to ensure that the wider gadgets industry can use them too,” David Bourne, Google’s sustainability systems architect, said.
The trunk cover of the recently launched Pixel 5 is manufactured with 100 per cent recycled aluminium. This not only eliminates the application of mined aluminium and reduces waste, it also lowers the carbon footprint of manufacturing the product by up to 35 %, Google said.
The Nest Audio speaker has 70 % plastic across its enclosure parts and is covered in sustainable fabric, it added.
Google is likely to include recycled material into more products in the coming months. This does not mean that the products will be made completely from recycled material but use them in a few proportion.
The business manufactures Pixel smartphones, Pixelbooks, home speakers, Nest devices and accessories like phone cases and charging stands. It has pledged to use recycled or renewable material in at least 50 % of most plastic across its hardware products within the next five years.
“This raises the bar well beyond industry standards,” Mr Bourne said. “We are actually even more confident that recycling plastic waste and protecting against it from polluting the environment is an achievable goal.”
The company is also aiming to have its entire presentation plastic-free and recyclable by 2025.
“We have already made a decrease in plastic use inside our packaging since 2016, but we've a lot of effort ahead so that you can meet this new goal,” said Mr Bourne.
“We have committed to integrating sustainability into our products, procedures and communities … our new commitments will be the next step and we anticipate pushing ourselves and the industry forward a lot more in the coming months and years,” he added.
Google said it really is attempting to achieve zero waste to landfill certification at all of its final assembly manufacturing sites within the next two years. This documentation means that almost all waste from those procedures will be recycled.
“While it’s crucial for the materials that get into something to be sustainable, what goes on to the waste material created in a product’s manufacturing process is equally important,” Mr Bourne said.
Google was among the first major companies to be carbon-neutral in 2007. Last month, it announced to perform most of its campuses and data centres on carbon-free energy by 2030.
This transformation will create a lot more than 20,000 new jobs in clean energy and associated industries over the next five year, it said.
Source: www.thenationalnews.com
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