Logitech First to Transition Video Collaboration Portfolio to Recycled Plastic and Next Life Materials
30 Januar 2024 - 9:01AM
Business Wire
- Logitech customers can now equip entire conference rooms with
sustainable tech to help them manage their carbon footprint
- Existing Logitech video conference products being redesigned
with recycled materials without price increase or quality
change
- Logitech Sight, Rally Bar Family, webcams, mice, headsets,
keyboards already made with recycled materials
Today, Logitech (SIX: LOGN) (NASDAQ: LOGI) announced that all
video collaboration devices that run on the CollabOS operating
system will now be manufactured with next-life plastics, helping
enterprise customers support their sustainability objectives.
Existing products– Rally Bar, Rally Bar Mini, Tap IP, Tap
Scheduler, and Scribe– are being refreshed with materials that
lower the carbon impact of each product. This provides
organizations with a partner that in turn helps position them to
better manage their carbon footprint.
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Logitech video conferencing portfolio
will now be designed for sustainability, using materials that lower
the carbon impact of each product. (Photo: Business Wire)
“By transitioning our portfolio of conference room devices to a
lower product carbon footprint, we are helping other companies
navigate their sustainability challenges,” said Prakash
Arunkundrum, Chief Operating Officer at Logitech. “We’re not only
designing and manufacturing new products with recycled plastic and
other lower carbon materials, but refreshing existing products to
provide IT leaders with a new way to evaluate their workplace
technology investment in conference room systems - one that
includes people and planet. We do this without increasing prices or
compromising the highest quality and performance companies expect
from Logitech.”
Efforts to reduce negative environmental impact have rapidly
become a business imperative. In a recent survey of IT
professionals by analyst firm Frost & Sullivan, 65% say that
becoming a leader in environmental, social, governance and
sustainability practices is a critical or very important business
objective in the coming year.
Applying Design for Sustainability (DfS) principles to
Logitech’s video collaboration portfolio means that Logitech
customers can outfit entire conference rooms– including Microsoft
Teams Rooms and Zoom Rooms–with technology designed with
sustainability in mind. This development expands on the progress
already achieved with personal workstation peripherals such
webcams, headsets, mice, and keyboards.
Design for Sustainability (DfS)
A key tenet of DfS is the use of circular materials that can be
recovered from the waste stream and given a second life, including
post-consumer recycled plastics (PCR) that Logitech calls “next
life plastics.”
Newer conference room products like Logitech Sight use:
- Minimum of 50% certified recycled plastic
- 21% reduction in carbon footprint***
- 1,400tCO2e avoided carbon per 100,000 units (enough to drive
around the Earth approximately 131 times†)
Additionally, Logitech video conferencing products have:
- Low carbon aluminum made with renewable energy rather than
fossil fuels
- Packaging from FSC®-certified forests and other controlled
sources
- 100% recycled fabrics in the Rally Bar family
- Option to collect and recycle old video conferencing equipment
via Logitech Select
- Power saving modes that can potentially reduce Rally Bar and
Rally Bar Mini’s carbon impact by 1.65 tons of carbon dioxide
equivalent**
Opening Access for Greater Impact
Logitech has decreased its Scope 3 emissions by 21% in 2022 with
the goal of removing more carbon than it creates by 2030.
To drive carbon reduction at an even bigger scale and stimulate
industry-wide progress, Logitech is offering to openly share its
DfS principles, tools and its knowledge of how to incorporate more
sustainable materials in the manufacturing process with any
organizations in the consumer technology industry interested in
increasing their sustainability efforts. For a consultation on how
to incorporate more sustainable materials into your manufacturing
process, contact sustainability@logitech.com.
Transparency and Accountability
As more companies hold themselves accountable for measurably
reducing their carbon impact, they increasingly seek out technology
vendors who provide transparency via key performance indicators,
reporting, and third party certifications. Logitech is on track to
achieve its 2025 target of having a product carbon footprint for
every product in its portfolio, making it easier for company
technology buyers to make informed decisions about–and report on–
the scope of their impact when outfitting their global workforces
for meeting rooms, personal workstations, and flex desking.
Logitech annually reports on its progress toward its Climate Action
goals in the 2023 Impact Report.
Availability
Availability timing varies depending on supply of existing
products in each geography. Logitech business products made with
Next Life Plastic, and their availability, can be found here. For
more information on the Logitech Select collect-and-recycle
program, contact collect-recycle@logitech.com.
About Logitech
Logitech helps all people pursue their passions and is committed
to doing so in a way that is good for people and the planet. We
design hardware and software solutions that help businesses thrive
and bring people together when working, creating, gaming and
streaming. Brands of Logitech include Logitech, Logitech G,
Streamlabs and Ultimate Ears. Founded in 1981, and headquartered in
Lausanne, Switzerland, Logitech International is a Swiss public
company listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange (LOGN) and on the Nasdaq
Global Select Market (LOGI). Find Logitech at www.logitech.com, the
company blog, LinkedIn Business or @LogitechBiz.
Logitech and other Logitech marks are trademarks or registered
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and other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their
respective owners. For more information about Logitech and its
products, visit the company’s website at www.logitech.com.
*Based on a global electricity consumption emissions factor from
Logitech’s Carbon Clarity program. Internal estimates of
pre-optimization use phase carbon impact of 19.8t CO2e for Rally
Bar and 21t CO2e for Rally Bar Mini for each 100 products used over
a period of 2 years. Logitech’s internal user model for room VC
equipment (based on recorded data from VC room usage)
**Based on energy saving mode switched on an EnergyStar
certified, 50-69 inch, low energy television baseline, a global
electricity consumption emissions factor from Logitech’s Carbon
Clarity program. Internal estimates of pre-optimization use phase
carbon impact of 95.4t CO2e for each 100 products used over a
period of 2 years. Logitech’s internal user model for room VC
equipment (based on recorded data from VC room usage).
***Compared to a “doing nothing” design scenario.
† Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies Calculator, US Environmental
Protection Agency
(LOGIIR)
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Leila Lewis, Global B2B Communications llewis@logitech.com
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