We provide customers with an online request form for arranging equipment collection. For more information: www.alcatel-lucent.com/product_takeback.
We offer global product take-back, remanufacturing, and recycling services for any type of telecom products, regardless of vendor. That means that in many countries, we collect equipment made by competitors too. End-of-life equipment is collected and recycled by the members of our global network of Alcatel-Lucent-certified recycling vendors.
From an eco-impact point of view, probably the worst thing that can happen to a piece of equipment at end-of-life is for it to be dumped into a landfill. Our goal is to virtually eliminate landfill disposal through a battery of more eco-friendly alternatives, especially remanufacturing. Thanks to our equipment refurbishing operations, we collect, remanufacture and reuse a considerable and growing volume of telecom network equipment from customers. In 2010, the Group managed 4,464 metric tons of electronic waste. of this amount, 336 metric tons of equipment and components was remanufactured and/or resold. Approved recycling partners were utilized to recycle 4,050 metric tons. All told, greater than 98% was recycled or re-sold; less than 2% was disposed via secure landfill. Alcatel-Lucent, which increased the number of product types remanufactured by 36% in 2009, further expanded remanufacturing by an additional 21% in 2010.
Remanufactured products offer a significant advantage in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, with improvements of 30-to-44% compared to manufacturing new products.*
* Lifecycle Assessment of the Environmental Benefits of Remanufactured Product within a “Green” Supply Chain; IEEE Sustainability Systems and Technology, May 2010.
Unit modularity helps extend a product’s value and lifetime. In addition to modularity, the Alcatel-Lucent Environment-Conscious Design guidelines cover parts standardization, upgradability, and solutions that reduce servicing and field repairs:
Unit modules that are segmented and interchangeable enable easy product repairs and upgrades. Even if certain modules are replaced, most of the equipment can stay in place for continued use.
Standard mechanical parts can allow for continued use even when product functionality changes significantly.
For more efficient re-use, mechanical parts from legacy equipment should be easily recoverable, without much rework and retesting. Recovered electronic and electro-mechanical components can be reused in new products provided they meet reliability requirements.
New product features can be efficiently implemented through software upgrades, in some cases without hardware changes. For example, the Alcatel-Lucent Dynamic Power Save (DPS) feature can be installed by software upgrade alone on our installed base of GSM wireless base stations deployed over the past 10 years in order to dynamically adapt power consumption to actual traffic needs to reduce energy waste.
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