It’s time for all business leaders to respond to the climate emergency. To act on an undeniable truth: it’s now or never.
By keeping technology in use for longer, we help our clients to align with the sustainability imperative. As partners, we promote sustainable performance while putting the planet first.
The way IT is managed and used has impacts. Circularity First uses a circular mindset to take a more sustainable approach to IT. We design, build, and manage infrastructures that perform in demanding environments, whilst offering solutions that provide the greatest return of investment.
With your carbon emissions, net zero, resource use and e-waste targets in mind, we help balance the needs of your business with the needs of humanity.
IT contributes between 5-20% of an organisation’s Scope 3 emissions and is growing.
Aligning IT to a circular mindset reduces this contribution.
The solutions exist. You can start now.
Sustainable IT is the design, manufacture, use and disposal of IT equipment with minimal impact on the environment. It’s technology that works harder and damages less.
We support our clients across hardware, software, network infrastructure, data centres and data to bridge the gap between commercial goals and sustainability targets.
Because it’s now or never for taking action.
Passing the telecoms test
We empowered a global telecoms provider to act on IT.
Discover how we reduced lead times and eWaste without compromising performance.
IT contributes between 5-20% of an organisation’s Scope 3 emissions and is growing.
The solutions exist. You can start now.
Because it’s now or never for taking action
Passing the telecoms test
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Over 57 million metric tonnes of eWaste will be generated in 2021.
Knowledge first. Planet first. Circular First.
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This is the decisive decade. Act on IT.
Because it’s now or never for taking action. Ask us how.
This is the decisive decade. Act on IT.
To avoid the worst impacts of climate change and hit global sustainability targets, we must take urgent steps.
A more circular approach to IT – remanufacturing, refurbishing, reusing and extending the life of technology – will help reduce the pressure on the planet’s resources.
Knowledge first. Planet first. Circularity First.
The more we all understand sustainable IT and its benefits, the more it can help relieve the pressure on our planet and our businesses. We’ve put a guide together to help explain all that it is and all that it can be.
Over 57 million metric tonnes of eWaste was generated in 2021.
We need to grow awareness of how ethically important sustainable IT practices are, of the economic benefits they can bring and the next steps we can take as an industry.
The internet has a physical footprint as it requires electricity to run the datacentres, the networking infrastructure and the devices we use to access it. This electricity produces a carbon footprint. Websites that are designed in an energy efficient manner produce less carbon. The more autoplay video, high res images and content on a site, the more energy it takes show this content- meaning a greater carbon footprint for the page.
Our Low Carbon Mode reduces energy consumption by displaying darker colours.
"OLED screens that light up each pixel individually are becoming increasingly popular. They present an opportunity for digital designers to save energy. As you might expect, darker colours require less energy to illuminate, with black being the lowest energy colour and white being the most energy intensive." sustainablewebdesign.org
We were inspired to build a more energy efficient site through our friend Gerry McGovern and from learning about Wholegrain digital. We consciously designed and built this site to highlight this issue by showing a standard and low carbon mode. Our standard mode is ‘cleaner’ than 95% of all other websites tested and we’re focussed on continually improving this.
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