By Sustainability team
21st August 2009.
15:23
Monthly Archives: August 2009
We have got some questions related to how we secure data and improvement of environmental performance. We have many ways of tracking our perfomance and securing our products.
To conduct the LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) we work together with both parent companies, a large number of our suppliers and we also get information from Universities and institutions around the world. The LCA on the phone is based on several LCA’s from suppliers as well as acknowledged data on emissions and environmental impact from transports, raw materials extraction and energy production in different parts of the world. The basis and data input to this study is in fact extremely big.
Other than the LCA we also collect other environmental data for other purposes for example:
- Materials declarations are collected for all components covering all included materials.
- Before any product is launched analysis are conducted for different materials and assemblies at an external accredited lab to make sure we meet our requirements.
- We gather data from transport companies on fuel consumption, distances and emissions
- We measure emissions, waste generation or energy consumption at our factories and major sites pending location and size.
- We collect information on numbers and weights of products collected and recycled in our own collection systems.