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2014/15 Annual Report Lenovo Group Limited
Lenovo is committed to reducing and recycling waste and conserving water. Lenovo tracks waste intensity and
works to identify and implement opportunities to reduce waste quantities. Non-hazardous waste generation
increased over the past five years due to organic growth in production and employee population and structural
changes in terms of forming joint ventures and acquiring other businesses. However, our targeted recycling rate
has been achieved each year. Lenovo generates only minimal amounts of hazardous waste and strives to reduce
this amount year-to-year. From FY 2014/15 we started monitoring and reporting global landfill avoidance rates.
Lenovo tracks and monitors water consumption in its operations even though it does not have any wet processes;
water is used only for human consumption and sanitation. Lenovo is evaluating water impacts in its supply chain
and monitors the regulatory performance of suppliers located in China using the Institute of Public & Environmental
Affairs (IPE) database.
Performance relative to FY 2014/15 waste and water targets will be available in the Sustainability Report later in the
year.
For additional details on Lenovo’s waste and water inventory, see http://www.lenovo.com/waterandwaste.
Lenovo’s energy and GHG emissions data for the last five years (beginning with the baseline year FY
2009/10) was third-party verified by Bureau Veritas. In addition, Lenovo’s waste and water data for FY
2013/14 was third-party verified. Please see verification statements at http://www.lenovo.com/climate and
http://www.lenovo.com/waterandwaste. Lenovo plans to verify FY 2014/15 GHG, waste and water data to a
reasonable level of assurance.
Further details on our strategy, objectives, targets and environmental performance are available at
http://www.lenovo.com/environment. Detailed results regarding our environmental performance are published in our
annual Sustainability Report available at http://www.lenovo.com/sustainability.
Lenovo’s Environmentally Conscious Products program focused in FY 2014/15 on the following key areas:
• Product Materials, including the use of post-consumer recycled content
• Product Energy, including a focus on product carbon footprint, and
• Product Packaging, including size reduction and use of environmentally-preferable materials
In the product materials area, Lenovo has made continuous progress in the use of post-consumer recycled content
(PCC) plastics. By working with our suppliers to develop and qualify engineered grades of PCC plastics, Lenovo
has used more than 157 million pounds of recycled content plastics with over 69 million net PCC plastics since
beginning these efforts.