recently there have been a lot of
questions from our consumers and our
commercial customers with respect to the
greenness of our product they want to
know is it energy-efficient what
materials went into making the product
is it recyclable and so forth
our latest advancement in green design
is the ThinkPad t 420 it is the first
laptop that's been certified through ul
environments gold program well he was a
very well recognized company globally
it's on average you have about a hundred
and twenty products in your home that
carry the UO and a circle to represent
that the products have met a fire and
electrical safety standards we saw a
need to extend that mission to
protecting the environment and not just
the environment itself but also the
environment people wouldn't work in a ul
environment is is one of the things we
do we look at it from a lifecycle
approach you have to pick the right
materials from the start for example we
use post-consumer content which is
recycled water bottles we have to design
energy efficiency practices and power
management attributes into the system so
they're efficient during the use of the
product and then we have to be sure that
the product is able to be recycled so
the product is actually evaluate to a
standard that looks at the whole life
cycle impact of the product itself so
we'll it will look at the materials that
are used in the sourcing the development
of the product it would look at the
performance of the product so things
like the energy efficiency and
requirements that it needs to be meeting
such as Energy Star or others globally
and there's also things like disassembly
so how do we recycle these products so
they don't go into the waste stream and
then just get put into it landfill we
independently from a third-party
perspective verify that these criteria
met so if it's needing to be tested for
energy efficiency watch we take that
product put it in our own labs and make
sure that the results that we're seeing
are the same ones that that the
manufacturer believes are true we
actually take the product and make sure
that even things as simple as taking the
the monitor off of the laptop is easy to
do for a consumer so that it's easy to
recycle ThinkPad has always been known
as the gold standard for business
performance
now it's recognized as the gold standard
in green design
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