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2008/09 Annual Report Lenovo Group Limited
53
The Environment
Lenovo is committed to accountability and leadership in environmental affairs and continues to build upon a history of
environmental achievement. With the foundation of a robust Environmental Management System (EMS) each Lenovo
employee and manager bears a personal responsibility to conserve natural resources, develop, manufacture, and
market products that are safe for the user and the environment, energy efficient, and recyclable. Lenovo’s EMS assures
the highest level of environmental protection for Lenovo’s products as well as Lenovo’s site operations worldwide.
Lenovo’s Environmentally Conscious Products program specifies the elimination of potential health hazards and
minimizing the environmental impact of its products across the complete product life cycle. Lenovo’s priority is to use
environmentally preferable materials whenever applicable and is a leader in the use of recycled content in its products
including post-consumer recycled plastics. Specific examples include Lenovo’s entire line of ThinkVision monitors,
which use over 27 percent post-consumer recycled content, select ThinkCentre desktop PCs that use up to 27 percent
post-consumer recycled polymers, and the Lenovo ThinkStation™ D20 workstation which uses nearly 30 percent post
consumer content, equivalent to 19 plastic drinking water bottles.
Reduced energy consumption is also a major goal of Lenovo’s Environmentally Conscious Products program. In
January 2009, Lenovo announced that multiple Lenovo ThinkPad, IdeaPad, ThinkCentre PCs and the complete line
of ThinkVision monitors were tested to meet or exceed the new United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Energy Star 5.0 criteria approximately nine months before the new stringent criteria were scheduled to take place. As of
April 2009, Lenovo offered over 25 products that meet the Energy Star 5.0 criteria.
Lenovo also participates in the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT) program. EPEAT rates
electronic products on an extensive list of environmental attributes including post-consumer recycled content and
energy efficiency. Lenovo continues to lead the PC industry with products registered as EPEAT Gold or Silver certified.
Lenovo was the first manufacturer to register an EPEAT Gold monitor and its complete line of ThinkVision monitors and
several ThinkPad notebooks and ThinkCentre desktop PCs are also EPEAT Gold certified.
Lenovo offers product take-back and recycling programs for both consumer and business customers worldwide.
Lenovo offers these programs in every country it conducts business, with many of those programs free to the consumer.
Lenovo’s free recycling program in China, which was introduced in 2006, has led to a paradigm shift in asset recovery
for the country. For business customers, Lenovo’s Asset Recovery Service (ARS) provides computer take-back, data
destruction, refurbishment and recycling services.
During 2008, Lenovo financed or managed the processing of over 39.9 million pounds of Lenovo owned or customer
returned computer equipment with nearly 80 percent reused or recycled, and only 1.47 percent disposed in landfills.
Customer returned equipment made up over 37 percent of this total processed tonnage. Since Lenovo was established
as a global company in May of 2005, Lenovo has processed over 129 million pounds of computer equipment through
its contracted service providers.
In an effort to minimize Lenovo’s climate change impact and reduce its carbon footprint, Lenovo uses local
manufacturing facilities in the Americas, Europe and Asia, as well as lower carbon shipping methods such as truck and
rail, when appropriate. Furthermore, lighter and smaller products, more compact and reusable packaging materials,
bulk shipping alternatives, and distribution facilities allow for lighter loads, load consolidation and full truck load
shipments. In 2008, Lenovo shifted 7 percent of notebooks from air to lower carbon ocean transport. Also, in 2008,
Lenovo was certified by the United States Environmental Protection Agency as a SmartWay transportation provider. The
SmartWay brand identifies products and services that reduce transportation related emissions. This certification further
demonstrates the environmental strength of Lenovo’s environmentally friendly modes of transport.