Corporate Responsibility
ENVIRONMENT

Packaging: Performance and goals

We have made significant environmental improvements to our packaging:

Mobile phones

• Since 2003, reduced the average weight of packaging by 50 percent
• 100 percent paper-based, eliminating plastic insert trays
• 60 percent recycled content
• Average material reduction of 18 percent per re-design
• Single-piece structural design to reduce complexity which reduces the amount of waste during manufacture
• High-volume pallets (from 300 to 1,620 phones per pallet)

Manuals are excluded from bulk shipments to save weight. The booklets are added locally or provided online.

Bluetooth headset packaging

• Reduced volume by 53 percent (from 249 square inches to 118 square inches)
• Increased items per pallet from 300 to 480
• Reduced the plastic shell package by 15 percent by volume
• Eliminated PVC

Enterprise Mobility battery packaging

• Increased number of units per pallet from 1,200 to 7,200
• New battery multi-packs contain 30 percent recycled materials, and use about 60 percent less corrugated material per 10-pack design than single battery packs
• Used multi-packs to reduce printed materials by 90 percent and eliminated plastic bubble wrap from bulk shipments

Enterprise Mobility MC9000 devices

• Shipped in 100 percent reusable and recyclable trays holding eight devices per box. Previously we individually wrapped and boxed products.
• Reduced corrugated cardboard use by 53 million square inches per year.
• Reduced the number of storing pallets by 62 percent (from 186 to 301).
• Replaced paper manuals with online instructions to save weight.