Cisco strives to manage, reduce, or eliminate operational waste—which includes office, landscaping, and cafeteria wastes. For information about Cisco’s electronic waste management programs, see Product Lifecycle Management.
In our Brussels office, installation of new recycling bins and an employee education program this year boosted the recycling rate from 40 to 80 percent. At our headquarters in San Jose, we are testing a program to sort 100 percent of our office waste to make sure no recyclable materials end up in landfill.
Seventy-four percent of the total waste stream is now diverted from the landfill. We continue to improve our recycling rate, repurposing the waste so it can be used as a resource.
