This man diverted 850,000 KGs of waste from landfill; aims to prevent 1M kgs in 2022!
Series 1, episode 4 of the Sustainability Champions Podcast \U0001f399
\nIntroducing Anthony Levy, Founder & CEO of Circularity First a company that specialises in helping businesses design, build, manage and quantify IT infrastructures with a circular mindset.
\nCircularity First Group have been working across sustainable IT for over 14 years. At their origin, they knew that systematic change was required. As the wider business community assesses its carbon footprint, others are realising it too.
\nNumbers suggest that IT contributes between 5% and 20% to a company\u2019s Scope 3 carbon footprint. With 80% of that carbon coming from manufacturing, Circularity First has extended the life of what we have and stemmed the tide on new. For their founder and their team, it\u2019s their belief that \u2018It\u2019s now or never.\u2019
\nCircularity First works with both vendors and customers and over 14 years have achieved:
\n- Preventing 850,000 KGs of technology equipment from becoming eWaste, the equivalent of 6 blue whales.
\n- This year, 2022 Circularity First is on track to prevent 1M KGs from ending up in landfill
\n- Of the networking products they sell, 99% are sourced from manufactured, reused and redeployed authorised programmes.
\n- As a company, they aim to be carbon neutral by the end of 2022.
\n- Using science-based targets they also aim to be net zero by 2030.
\nIn this episode, the CEO of Circularity First, Anthony Levy raises an interesting point; \u2018How many sustainable IT companies can we name?\u2019 As an industry, it is contributing to massive energy use & carbon footprint, requires extensive mining for minerals, and leaves an environmental cost with roughly $62.5 billion of electronic waste thrown away each year.
\nA conversation we have not addressed yet on this channel, we are delighted to announce that this week\u2019s podcast episode will look at how the industry can be more circular, and environmentally friendly and how Circularity First aims to address the main issues centred on the industry over the coming years.
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\nPresented by: Daniel Hartz
\nProduced by: Daniel Hartz & Peter Donnelly
\nVideo Edit by: Abdallah Raddadi
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