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The core mission of Wipro Green Computing is to provide to our customers, products
that are safe for the environment. Preserving the environment for future generations
is our foremost duty and Wipro has been on a journey to provide products, which
are safe for environment and human health. Wipro vision is to avoid the use of substances
in its products that could seriously harm the environment or human health. Wipro
takes all steps to ensure that following substances are avoided in production process:
- All materials and Substances with hazardous properties that are a known threat to
human health or the environment.
- All materials and Substances with hazardous properties that show strong indications
of significant risks to human health or the environment.
- All materials and Substances with hazardous properties that bio persist and bio
accumulates in atmosphere and impact humans or the environment.
Wipro further believes that if reasonable scientific grounds indicate a substance
(or group of substances) could pose significant environmental or human health risks,
even if the full extent of harm has not yet been definitively established, precautionary
measures should be taken to avoid use of the substance(s) in products unless there
is convincing evidence that the risks are small and are outweighed by the benefits.
Wipro considers these to be substances of concern that need to be eliminated in
the long term and substituted or gradually phased out in the short term. Wipro identifies
substances for elimination after studying the harmful substances recommended by
the Ministry of Environment and Forest, Government of India, international treaties
and conventions, RoHS legislation etc. as applicable to its area of operations.
- Banning all the items banned under different laws, treaties and conventions.
- List of elements which are not banned by laws but are threat to human health and
environment.
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