Google pledges carbon-neutral shipping, recycled plastic for all its devices

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The new commitment steps up the competition among tech companies aiming to show they are working on sustainability

Alphabet’s Google says it will neutralise carbon emissions from delivering consumer hardware by 2020 and include recycled plastic in each of its products by 2022.

Anna Meegan, head of sustainability for Google’s devices and services unit, said the company’s transport-related carbon emissions per unit fell 40% in 2018, compared to 2017 by relying more on ships instead of planes to move phones, speakers, laptops and other gadgets from factories to customers across the world.

 

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