{"id":22658,"date":"2019-09-21T06:00:22","date_gmt":"2019-09-21T06:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/?p=22658"},"modified":"2019-09-20T18:02:12","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T18:02:12","slug":"google-makes-commitment-to-sustainability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/news\/google-makes-commitment-to-sustainability\/","title":{"rendered":"<Google makes commitment to sustainability>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google will neutralize carbon emissions from delivering consumer hardware.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Alphabet Inc\u2019s Google announced Monday that it would neutralize carbon emissions from delivering consumer hardware by next year and include recycled plastic in each of its products by 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes amid competition among tech companies to show environmentally conscious consumers and governments that they are reducing the environmental impact made by their broad array of gadgets.<\/p>\n<p>Anna Meegan, head of sustainability for Google\u2019s devices and services unit, said in an interview that the company\u2019s transport-related carbon emissions per unit fell 40% in 2018 compared to the previous year by relying more on ships instead of planes to move phones, speakers, laptops, and other gadgets around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Meegan also highlighted that three out of every nine Google products for which the company has detailed disclosures online contain recycled plastic, ranging from 20% to 42% in the casings for its Google Home speakers and Chromecast streaming dongles.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, in a blog post, Google announced its commitment to introducing recycled plastic to 100% of products by 2022.<\/p>\n<h1><strong>The race to be green<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Meegan nevertheless acknowledged that Google\u2019s three-year-old hardware business currently lags behind rival Apple Inc in some sustainability efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Apple, which in 2017 committed to \u201cone day\u201d only using recycled and renewable materials, has at least 50% recycled plastic in parts of many of its products, recycled tin in at least 11 products, and recycled aluminum in at least two.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Meegan insisted that Google will soon be catching up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to take us time to demonstrate progress, but we are fundamentally looking to build sustainability into everything we do,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google will neutralize carbon emissions from delivering consumer hardware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":22659,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1338],"tags":[2097,98,1385,602,2408,2407,2406],"class_list":["post-22658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-carbon-emissions","tag-ceo-north-america","tag-ceo-northam","tag-google","tag-green","tag-recycled-plastic","tag-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22658"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22710,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22658\/revisions\/22710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}