– Sustainability issues we target
Environmental and social risks with IT products
Today, we produce and use IT products in a linear way, leading to virgin natural resources being depleted to manufacture products that often have a short lifespan before they are discarded. This contributes to the climate crisis and enormous amounts of toxic e-waste.
Conflict minerals used in IT products are known to fuel wars and human rights abuses. Hazardous substances present a wide variety of risks. Also, social responsibility issues occur throughout the supply chain. From raw-materials extraction to final assembly, working hours, health and safety, and forced labor are just a few examples of problems that need to be addressed.
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Sustainability issues connected to IT products
IT products come with numerous social and environmental challenges throughout their life cycle. The current and linear take-use-waste model creates pollutants and depletes natural resources, affecting both human health and the environment.
Webinar on-demand 2: Another four approaches to circular electronics
E-waste is the world’s fastest growing waste stream. In this webinar, four impactful approaches to circular electronics will be presented.
Circular Electronics Day promotes life-extension of IT products
Circular Electronics Day is a global initiative backed up by more than 20 organizations aiming to increase the circular management of electronics.
Webinar on-demand: Five approaches to circular electronics
E-waste is the world’s fastest growing waste streams. In this webinar, five impactful approaches to circular electronics will be presented.
Quiz: what do you know about circularity and electronics?
There are many things you can do for a circular approach, where resources are handled more responsibly. Test your knowledge and get started!
How circularity helps solve three of today’s largest sustainability problems
Learn how a circular approach to IT products can help reduce environmental problems linked to our climate, natural resources and e-waste.
E-waste quiz puts spotlight on International E-waste Day
New e-waste quiz to educate and raise awareness during International E-waste Day. The day aims to reduce e-waste to save natural resources.
Webinar on-demand: How to store data in a socially responsible way
Practical tips to drive the availability of servers, data storage products and network equipment that are made in a more responsible way.
Overcoming the obstacles for circularity
Today, a number of obstacles stand in the way of the circular economy. Overcoming them will require a dedicated, all-in effort that begins now.
What circularity means for IT products
Circular economy is a way of making ends meet. The logic is simple — it means that we use natural resources responsibly so we don’t risk exhausting them.
Online event on September 22: Circular IT management in a linear world
Listen to people in the frontline of circularity and IT products and put your questions directly to them at our digital event on September 22.
Webinar on-demand: How to purchase and use IT products in a circular way
A webinar with practical tips on circular and sustainable management of IT products from TCO Developments annual Impacts and Insights report. Sign up now.
Webinar on-demand: Data centers in focus — risks, opportunities and challenges
As a purchaser you can make responsible choices that help reduce negative environmental and social impact of data center products.
Conflict minerals: local initiatives key to more responsible mining practices
Working conditions in conflict mineral mines are often severely unsafe. Local development programs work to improve lives in vulnerable mining communities.
Organizations call for sustainable action on Circular Electronics Day
January 24 is Circular Electronics Day, an initiative aiming to encourage organizations and consumers to take a more responsible approach to electronics.
Unsafe working environments in the IT industry risk people’s health
Sustainability problems risk workers’ health in the IT industry. Engagement, long term investments and follow-up is needed to improve the situation.
Report presents keys to solving sustainability issues in the IT industry
The report Impacts and Insights 2019 measures sustainability progress among brand owners with IT products certified according to TCO Certified.
Helping you make a difference in the IT product supply chain
By using TCO Certified, generation 8, you send a clear message to industry to protect human rights, work against corruption and protect workers’ rights.
Webinar on-demand: Conflicts and violence when smartphones are manufactured
Two and a half billion people use smartphones daily. Did you know that smartphones are connected to conflicts and violence because of minerals such as tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold? These minerals are often called conflict minerals since they are mined in conflict-affected areas where human rights abuses are common.
Circular Economy & IT Products
In the fifth installment of our 2016 Sustainable IT webinar series, we make a deep dive into circular economy and IT-products with Annachiara Torciano and Louise Koch. We take a closer look at the current state of circular economy policy approaches, and what it means for the development of more sustainable IT products.
Proposed chemical tax on electronics misses environmental target
The chemical tax on electronics is aimed at substances with known negative effects, while giving a pass to untested substitutes with possibly greater risk
The business case for sustainable electronics
It doesn’t take a genius to see that electronics are more widely used than ever before.. Is it possible to turn the tide on e-waste?
Toxics in IT-products
In the first of our 2016 Sustainable IT webinar series, we found out more about toxics in IT-products.
Presentation: Introduction to GreenScreen for Safer Chemicals
We will be publishing on-demand versions of the presentations from Sustainable IT Summit 2015 in 3 parts. In part 2, Dr. Mark Rossi from US-based Clean Production Action provides an overview of GreenScreen for Safer Chemicals
Global E-waste reaches record high, says new UN Report
In a new report released by the United Nations University, global electronic waste has reached record high levels. 41.8 million tons of e-waste was generated in 2014, fuelling concerns about the growing risks to public health, resource conservation and the environment.