Products & Environment
As stated in its Environment, Health and Safety Policy, Alcatel-Lucent is committed to limiting the impact of its product solutions throughout their life cycle - from design, supply, use and end-of-life management.
In support of this commitment, our suppliers must ensure that the equipment delivered to Alcatel-Lucent or to Alcatel-Lucent customers complies with all restrictions regarding the use of certain substances in products, and with labelling standards and other Alcatel-Lucent environmental requirements.
In line with its own commitment to have eco-declaration (based on the ECMA 370 standard) available for all its products, Alcatel-Lucent also requests its suppliers to provide information on the environmental characteristics of their products and/or components.
Monitoring process
Based on inputs from the EHS Office and CTO - Environmental Engineering Organization, Alcatel-Lucent Purchasing Organization carefully defines the requirements towards suppliers.
The contractual relationship with any component or product supplier MUST include a specific clause whereby:
- The supplier is requested to comply with industry standards and regulations regarding environment, health and safety.
- The supplier is requested to fill in a form on product environment characteristics / component environment characteristics covering substances in products, energy consumption figures, electromagnetic and noise emissions and end-of-life information. As a preferred alternative, Alcatel-Lucent requests an eco-declaration for finished products as well.
- The supplier is requested to mark plastic parts following ISO 11469 and ISO 1043 standards to maximise recycling at end of life.
The supplier agrees to meet Alcatel-Lucent supplier requirements on substance restrictions.
- The scope of responsibilities of the supplier for the end of life of the equipment is defined.
- Supplier's products are requested to be compliant with any key EHS regulations. This contributes to raising awareness in the Supply Chain on existing and new regulations
REACH regulation: the European Union Regulation No 1907/2006 on the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) entered into force on 1st June 2007. Under REACH, companies operating in the EU face obligations as manufacturers, importers and downstream users.
WEEE Directive (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment)
Manufacturers must use this crossed-out wheeled bin marker as a sign of product compliance with the European WEEE directive [detailed information is available in CENELEC Standard EN 50 419].
RoHS European Directive and its associated exemptions
China Ministry of Information Industry Order No. 39, "Management Methods for Controlling Pollution by Electronic Information Products," and its associated standards (China RoHS).
China RoHS does not currently restrict the use of substances, but sets requirements on product marking and product substances information (Hazardous Substances Table).
Within the Purchasing Organization, Technical Commodity Managers, who are knowledgeable about the technologies available for use in any given commodity, can crosscheck EHS information received and further dialogue with suppliers if needed.
