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Reducing our environmental impacts is a sustainability priority for Vodafone. But this ‘eco-efficiency’ is also a business imperative, helping us cut operating costs and meet the increasingly robust environmental requirements of our business customers and investors.
We have greatest control over the impacts of our own operations and have robust systems in place to manage these (see Environmental management). Key focus areas are reducing energy use and associated carbon emissions, and managing electronic waste from our network.
Our influence also extends beyond our operations and we adopt a holistic approach to manage and reduce environmental impacts across our value chain: from design and manufacturing of products by suppliers through to use and disposal by our customers.
Fundamentally, we want to do more for our customers with less: less energy, less carbon, less waste and fewer resources.
We are committed to reducing the carbon footprint of our operations. Our priority is to reduce emissions from our networks by improving efficiency and using alternative energy sources.
Our efforts to reduce the environmental impacts of our products and services span their full lifecycle – from design and manufacture through to use and disposal by customers.
We encourage customers to return old mobile phones for recycling and aim to improve capacity to manage electronic waste in developing markets.
Find out more about how we manage sustainability and view comprehensive performance data.
Your feedback is important to us, and will help us to improve our reporting and inform our sustainability strategy.
Download our 2010/11 sustainability report [PDF] and view previous versions.
