Ethical and sustainable development must not be only a speech, but have to be applied in all the details of the personal and professional lives.
I therefore consider as a great importance the selection of my suppliers. On this page your comments and contributions are welcome.
Labtop 😉
Company
- MSI is one of the largest manufacturers of component computing worldwide, with a turnover of 3.24 Md de US$ in 2009
Green Policy
- http://www.msi.com/HTML/popup/CSR/evmtprtt_greenpolicy.html
- Some sensitivity to sustainable development; for example, for equipment sold in Europe, EU Eco-label
- GHG Management: We have enlisted the service of outside professionals to give training on GHG, and appointed an impartial 3rd party reviewer to undertake audit every year as we vigorously promote the work of GHG reduction.
- Compliance with directive REACH in Europe
- Excellence Award of “Top Green Brand 2014 in the ICT category” in Business Next Magazine
Social responsability
- http://www.msi.com/HTML/popup/CSR/sh_employees.html
- awarded the Badge of Accredited Healthy Workplace by the Taiwan’s Ministry of Health
- on the production sites: The Employee Assistance Project (EAP) was initiated on 1 November, 2011. By dialing 8585 (help me, help me in Taiwanese), employees can get help for the following issues: work stress, emotional problems, tax, legal affairs, medical care, and others. By combing internal and external services, EAP helps employees to solve related problems and release work stress and emotions to regain mental health, so that their family will not need to worry about their physical and mental condition
Development Survey
- Conflicts Minerals: http://www.msi.com/html/popup/csr/sh_conflict.html
- Essentielleemnt on the mines of the Republic of Congo, but no particular elsewhere
- CSR Report: CSR report is published every year: let’s have a look here: http://csr.msi.com/survey/pages/download/2015_msi_csr.pdf
Printer 😕
Company
- EPSON – Seiko Epson Corporation (セイコーエプソン株式会社, based in Japan
Green Policy
- EPSON publishes every year an annual report on the sustainable develoippement within the company: http://global.epson.com/SR/report/2015/pdf/epson_sr2015_all_e.pdf
- With regard specifically to printers, they work on the reduction of the consumption of electricity and CO2
- On the factories, they set a policy 100% recovery of waste from process and energy on air conditioning consumption reductions
- They have implemented the collection and recycling of ink through a collection www.conibi.fr program, a framework agreement with the professionals of the field of print cartridges office to strengthen the development of separate collection, reuse and recycling of used cartridges has been signed between the Ministry of the environment and the main actors of the sector of collection and treatment of end-of-life print cartridges. Learn more
Social responsability
- A specific emphasis on women in development of certain products (video projectors)
- sensitivity to conflict of mines; they have implemented a policy of traceability of the products of the mines since 2005
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Epson strives to be a good global corporate citizen. We contribute to the communities in which we operate not only monetarily through donations and sponsorships, but also physically, throughvolunteer efforts and the use of Epson technology
Development Survey
- no specific info
Smartphone 😕
Company
- APPLE
Green Policy
- Establishment of the “conservation Fund” to create and protect the forests that we provide paper that we use for our packaging.
- We developed a system of providing in order to feed our datacenter of Prineville, Oregon.
- And we started the construction of a photovoltaic plant in China to offset the energy consumed by our offices and our stores.
- 87% of global operations are powered by renewable energy
- Electrical consumption of manufactured products comply with the superior with the “Energy Star” standard
- “Grow their suppliers to reduce water consumption in plants through the clean water program” in developing the reuse of wastewater
- seeks to reduce, or even to remove harmful products used in electronic components: for example the beryllium, but also mercury, lead, Arsenic and PVC
Social responsability
- And after APPLE: “everywhere in the world, Apple employees unite their efforts to impose equality, human rights and respect for the environment at all levels of our supply chain”. http://www.Apple.com/FR/supplier-responsibility/
- internally: “861 000 workers have benefited from our SEED program (Supplier Employee Education and Development) which offers free courses ranging from the economy to the English.”
- 92% of limit of 60 hours per week in their global suppliers
- Publishes the list of suppliers and guidelines
Development Survey
- Many blame on surveillance of its users, its software suppliers, or even on the orders of the secret services? https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=agpZgt5DBLs
- Big conflict also on digital books with publishers and Governments. http://Informatique.linformaticien.com/Editeurs-Apple.html
Office furnitures
- Paper: ECOBURO in Nantes
- For taking notes in a meeting, We use exclusively paper recycled or recovered, namely unused impressions. They are then scanned, stored on our networker, then destroyed
- For on-site inspections or other visits, we use our Iphone to save our comments directly, without paper
- For printing on printer, only paper recycled type… We try to minimize printings, but it is sometimes useful to have some documents printed in meeting, including A3
- For everything else, Iwe don;t give any paper workbook, or otherwise, only electronic versions
- ECOBURO: Created by Didier Le Gars and Alain Cloarec around Ecodis, a specialized company, environmental products wholesaler non food, Ecoburo was founded in January 2006 with an offer, until then unknown in France, over 2,500 EPPs for the office.