Since 1994, LG Electronics has continually endeavored to minimize the impact of production on the environment at the product development stage.
Footprint Overview
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With the intention of creating a cleaner planet and protecting people's health, LG Electronics has established an environmental management strategy and a strategy to develop eco-products, and now supports various environmental protection activities.
In addition, LG Electronics operates assessment and monitoring systems as well as an internal management system, so that it can actively respond to environmental issues. The company also puts environmental management into practice by adopting an environmentally friendly mentality throughout the entire production process from the designing of a product, right through to its development and circulation.
The company is committed to carrying out the necessary research in order to discover more efficient methods of taking back and recycling end-of-life electronic products. The company is well-known for its stance as a protector of the environment and it is also involved in various public activities to protect the environment.
Strategy
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In a bid to provide customers with eco-products, LG Electronics has established and practices both an environmental management strategy and a strategy to develop eco-products. These strategies demonstrate LG Electronics' desire to fulfill its environmental responsibilities. These activities are being carried out to enable LG Electronics - whose presence in society is constantly increasing - to complete its sustainable strategy.
LG Electronics' environmental management strategy and eco-products strategy are being implemented in the environment/energy sector, the health and safety sector, and the comprehensive sector that is laying the foundations for sustainable management. They are being implemented through the following activities:
1. Eco-design
2. Management of hazardous substances
3. Research for Take-back and Recycling End-of-Life Electronics Products.
4. Green program
5. Supporting various environmental communities (NGOs, stakeholders)
