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Reports on the amount of electronic waste collected and recycled
Wipro launched its take-back and recycling program in 07. Since then, we have faced
many challenges and have successfully overcome them. The problem of recycling becomes
more challenging in the Indian environment as customers are reluctant to give in
their products for recycling. However, as a result of Wipro’s sustained efforts
towards awareness and education, it has resulted into a slow and steady progress
towards the collection of electronic waste for recycling. All the collection centers
of Wipro have started giving satisfactory results.
Wipro has increased the re-cycling of e-waste from 8% to 15% in comparison to our
past sales. However we have improved our collection performance by 74% .over previous
years. We have introduced number of measures to extend the life span of our products.
We are providing services to customers by which we replace components to extend
the life span of older products. Wipro’s product life span is now being defined
as 7 years.
In order to extend the lifespan of the product Wipro has taken many initiative by
giving extended service contract which helps the consumer to use the product beyond
the average lifespan. Our many customers like BFSI (Banking financial service institute)
are taking benifit of this initiative.
Wipro also has unique advantage of corporate selling and generally our customers
are bulk users like banks and big corporates. Wipro is organizing special orientation
programs for its corporate customers to educate them on E-waste management.
The following table and graphs would give clear picture of our recycling program.
EOL Items Recycled through approved e-waste vendors at Wipro
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