At Nokia, we take a proactive approach when considering how our activities might impact the environment. Our product creation is guided by life cycle thinking, minimizing the environmental impacts across the lifecycle of a product. Life cycle assessments help us identify and focus our activities on where we can best contribute to environment.

In the product creation we focus on energy efficiency, sustainable use of materials, smart packaging and creating environmental services that engage people to more sustainable lifestyles. All the materials in our products are selected with environment in mind. We've improved the energy efficiency of our products, and our devices remind you to unplug your charger when the battery is full. With over a billion people using Nokia phones around the world, small steps like these make a big difference. By providing eco applications and services, we increase awareness of environmental choices and promote sustainable actions, like offsetting CO2 emissions caused by flying. Effective end-of-life practices close the lifecycle loop, putting energy and valuable materials back into circulation. We currently offer take-back schemes in 85 countries. Find your nearest take-back point.

Environment is in everything we do

Environmental work is part of every Nokia employee's responsibility. This means that while we have teams dedicated to environmental work in the corporate and business team level, this is just the tip of the iceberg. Most of the work happens beneath the surface and behind the scenes, embedded into the normal day-to-day work across the Nokia organization.

Our designers come up with creative solutions to lessen our environmental impact. Our sourcing managers are in constant dialogue with suppliers to confirm full material information and compliance of every single component and module, and to ensure that Nokia Supplier Requirements and related environmental and ethical standards are met. There is a dedicated Design for Environment (DfE) specialist for every product and site, to support product development and monitor that our rigorous quality, safety and environmental requirements are met through a series of milestone reviews. Packaging specialists work to minimize the materials and logistics burden: every Nokia product today ships in a smaller box than its earlier equivalents.

Such product stewardship allows us to know in detail what materials and substances go into each product and how energy efficient it is, and enables us to extend this knowledge to our customers through Eco Declarations

That is the Power of we: working together at all levels to bring out the best solutions.