Logitech incorporating PCR into video collaboration devices

Consumer technology company Logitech has announced all of its video collaboration devices that run on the CollabOS operating system will now be manufactured with recycled plastics.

The company, which has headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, and San Jose, California, says existing products such as its Rally Bar, Rally Bar Mini, Tap IP, Tap Scheduler and Scribe, are being refreshed with materials that lower the carbon impact of each product, providing organizations with a partner that in turn helps position them to better manage their carbon footprint.

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“By transitioning our portfolio of conference room devices to a lower product carbon footprint, we are helping other companies navigate their sustainability challenges,” Logitech Chief Operating Officer Prakash Arunkundrum. “We’re not only designing and manufacturing new products with recycled plastic and other lower carbon materials but refreshing existing products to provide IT leaders with a new way to evaluate their workplace technology investment in conference room systems—one that includes people and planet. We do this without increasing prices or compromising the highest quality and performance companies expect from Logitech.”

The company says efforts to reduce negative environmental impact rapidly have become a business imperative, citing a recent survey of IT professionals by analyst firm Frost & Sullivan that claims 65 percent of respondents say that becoming a leader in environmental, social, governance (ESG) and sustainability practices is a critical or very important business objective in the coming year.

Logitech says applying design for sustainability principles to its video collaboration portfolio means its customers can outfit entire conference rooms—including Microsoft Teams rooms and Zoom rooms—with technology designed with sustainability in mind. The company adds this expands the progress already achieved with personal workstation peripherals such as webcams, headsets, mice and keyboards.

When it comes to the use of postconsumer resin (PCR), Logitech says newer conference room products like Logitech Sight use a minimum of 50 percent PCR, making for a 21 percent reduction in carbon footprint and 1,400 tons of CO₂ emissions avoided per 100,000 units. The Wave Keys for Business (61 percent PCR), Brio 305 (62 percent), Brio 505 (68 percent) and Tap Scheduler (54 percent) are other examples.

Additionally, Logitech video conferencing products have:

• low carbon aluminum made with renewable energy rather than fossil fuels;
• packaging from FSC-certified forests and other controlled sources;
• 100 percent-recycled fabrics in the Rally Bar family;
• the option to collect and recycle old video conferencing equipment via Logitech Select; and
• power saving modes that can potentially reduce Rally Bar and Rally Bar Mini’s carbon impact by 1.65 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent.

Product availability timing varies depending on supply of existing products in each geography. Logitech business products made with PCR, and their availability can be found here. For more information on the Logitech Select collect-and-recycle program, contact collect-recycle@logitech.com.

Logitech says it has decreased its Scope 3 emissions by 21 percent in 2022, with the goal of removing more carbon than it creates by 2030. To drive carbon reduction at a larger scale, the company plans to share its design for sustainability principles, tools and knowledge of how to incorporate more sustainable materials in the manufacturing process with any organizations in the consumer technology industry interested in increasing their sustainability efforts. For a consultation, contact sustainability@logitech.com.

The company says it also is on track to achieve its 2025 target of having a product carbon footprint for every product in its portfolio, making it easier for company technology buyers to make informed decisions about the scope of their impact when outfitting their workforces or meeting rooms, personal workstations and flex desking. Logitech’s reporting on its progress toward climate action goals can be found in its 2023 Impact Report.