Google begins to manufacture its products with recycled material

Google has started using recycled material to make products like the Pixels, Google Homes, and Chromecasts. Improvements in transportation systems already make your footprint carbon neutral.

Manufacturers are gradually realizing that it is necessary to protect the planet by using manufacturing processes that are more respectful of the environment. From reducing unnecessary parts to recycling some components, with Google being the latest example of these issues as some executives of your company have given.

This is an extension of its ecological footprint reduction plans, such as contracting an amount of renewable energy equivalent to its consumption. Now this is extended to your hardware. This applies to the fact that from now on Pixels mobiles, Pixelbook laptops, Google Home assistants and their corresponding accessories will be created with recycled materials, with the goal that by 2022 all products use recycled materials, although they have already used this type of materials on past Chromecasts.

Less resource consumption when buying a mobile

Another issue is transport, to be expected that changing the logistics system will reduce its environmental impact. The most immediate thing they have done is to stop using airplane transport and use ships, something that takes more time but ends up consuming less fuel. In addition, an order has been issued to the industrial design team with a clear message: make it easy to disassemble to recover materials.

This would allow cell phones that no longer work to be recycled and obtaining all kinds of rare metals that can be used for newer cell phones. Apple is already using a similar procedure, which complicates logistics but in the long term it may end up being cheaper and does not put so much pressure on the planet, that right now it does not generate enough resources to supply current consumption.

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