Zero waste Microsoft is committed to become a zero waste company by 2030. We are taking an increasingly circular approach to materials management to reduce waste and carbon emissions. Our approach includes design and material selection, responsibly sourcing materials for our operations, products, and packaging, and increasing the use of recycled content. We keep products and materials in use longer through reuse, repair, and recycling programs. Find out more here Commitments and progress (continued) Our commitments Zero waste By 2030, we will be zero was te across our direct business. Increase reuse of s ervers and components through Circular Centers By 2025, 90 percent of ser vers and components within our regional datacenter networks will be reused. Eliminate single-use plastic By 2025, we will elimina te single-use plastics in all Microsoft primary product packaging and all IT asset packaging in our datacenters. Make fully recycla ble products and packaging By 2030, we will design Su rface devices, Xbox products and accessories, and all Microsoft product packaging to be 100 percent recyclable in OECD countries. Drive to zero waste operat ions By 2030, we will achieve 9 0 percent diversion of operational waste at datacenters and campuses and 75 percent diversion for all construction and deconstruction projects. Our progress Circular Centers Planned 5 Circular Centers in FY22 >1 5 K t o n s Diverted more than 15,200 metric tons of solid waste across direct operations in FY21 18% Reduced single-use plastics in product packaging by 18% in FY21 Zero Waste Certified four datacenters as Zero Waste with new certifications Ecosystems Microsoft is committed to protect more land than we use by 2025 while also building a Planetary Computer. We need a strong, efficient , scalable way to monitor, underst and, measure, and ultimately manage the impact of our actions or inactions on ecosystems—both globally and locally. Microsoft is well on our way to providing access to the world’s critical environmental datasets and delivering a computing platform to measure, monitor, model, and manage healthy ecosystems. Find out more here Our commitments Build a Planetary Computer We will aggregate en vironmental data from around the world and put it to work through computing and machine learning in a new Planetary Computer. Take responsibil ity for our land footprint We will take respons ibility for the ecosystem impacts of our direct operations by protecting more land than we use by 2025. Our progress >17K acres Invested to protect more than 17,000 acres of land in FY21 >500 users Released the Planetary Computer and have over 500 users signed up 24 petabytes Made available 24 petabytes of data available in the Planetary Computer 850+ grants Our AI for Earth program has provided more than 850 grants since 2017 12
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