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“ We ’ ve also recycled over 25,000 technology items from our offices … it ’ s about 300,000 pounds of IT equipment that would have gone to a landfill ”
— Chad Wilkerson , Director , Sustainability & Infrastructure Sourcing , T-Mobile minimizing product packaging and increased use of FSC certified recycled and post-consumer materials . “ We ’ re really cutting back on the amount of paper receipts we ’ re using in our stores ,” Wilkerson explains . “ Reducing collateral – like direct mail advertising and customer billing . We ’ ve been relying more on electronic communications with our customers and about 70 % of our clients have signed up for paperless billing .” “ We work closely with the CTIA Green Working Group to efficiently and effectively protect the products we sell , like phones and accessories , while minimizing the impact , footprint and waste associated with our packaging as much as possible . The results have been pretty good , and include eliminat- ing plastic insert trays , labeling all packaging with internationally recognized symbols to encourage recycling , and reducing volatile organic compounds to less than 10 %. We ’ ve also recycled over 25,000 technology items from our offices including computers , servers and monitors . It ’ s about 300,000 pounds of IT equipment that would have gone to a landfill . In addition to internal electronics and battery recycling , we have a consumer device recycling program and since we started that , we ’ ve had over 18mm devices reused or recycled , and that continues to grow . Just having the incentives in place for
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