Singtel Sustainability Report 2014

ENVIRONMENT
Measure. Manage. Commit.

Manage waste and hazardous materials responsibly

	Singtel-Nokia mobile phone recycling programme
	Singtel was the 1^st to introduce an operator-led mobile phone recycling programme in Singapore via a partnership with Nokia. Since 2011, we have been providing a channel for customers and the public to recycle their old mobile phones, chargers and accessories regardless of brand. Singtel and Nokia donated S$5 to the Singtel Touching Lives Fund for every phone recycled between 1 April 2013 and 31 March 2014. Over 3,000 mobile phones were collected in the year via postal service and our mobile phone recycling bins located across the country. Since the inception of this programme, we have collected more than 5,000 mobile phones.

Non-hazardous waste

We are committed to reducing, reusing and recycling the waste we produce. We provide recycling points in offices to encourage our people to recycle, and promote double-sided printing to save paper. In FY2014, we disposed 2,235 tonnes of nonhazardous waste and recycled 97 tonnes of paper. The year-on-year increase of 7% is due to more disposal of solid waste in our building operations.

In FY2014, we completed the rollout of the managed printing system (MPS). The system holds the print job request until the users release the document for print by tapping their staff access cards on the network printer.

Types of non-hazardous waste (tonnes)

In the event that users forget their print requests, the system will delete the jobs within a specified period. This will automatically reduce the number of unnecessary print jobs. Our usage of paper via the MPS declined by 1,072 reams compared to FY2013.

Click here to see details of our 'Paperless Tender Pack' initiative.

Paper purchased vs Paper consumed via MPS (reams)