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Gilles

DRETSCH Orange CSR

E-waste challenges and opportunities for Orange

in AMEA zone

In a world of limited natural resources, reducing our environmental impacts across the entire life cycle of our products and services is essential for our long-term success and competitiveness.

We have made ambitious commitments to reduce the

environmental

footprint

of our activities, improve the performance of our products and services, and offer our customers innovative solutions that help them to reduce their own impact.

towards a greener world

- contribute to combating climate change

reducing our direct impact;

reducing the impact of our products and services at customer sites

;

developing innovative products and services that let everyone lower their environmental impact

.

- develop collection, recycling and re-use of end-of-life electronic equipment

contribution to CO2 reduction and rare resources recovery

Main Waste management principles (1)

Manage our waste impact on environment and answer stakeholders (customers, employees, NGO, public authorities, suppliers …) requirements through our products, network and services evolutions

Control

the whole channel for all waste categories (from internal activities, employees, customers and network) for waste collection, storage, transport, valorisation and depollution

Work with

reliable, agreed, traceable partners for collection, transport and treatmentregular on the ground audit of external partnersDevelop

re-use of equipment

to reduce CO2, use of resources and hazardous substances.contribution to CO2 reduction objectives in scope 3 of carbon assessment

especially for mobile phones or business equipments

Main Waste management principles (2)

Increase awareness and train

employees

about waste management best practices

training sessions, green weeks internally and in Orange shopsBe involved in

socio-economic development through Waste Managementpartnership with NGOs for some ewaste processingBe exemplar on regulation compliancy related to waste collection, storage, transportation, treatment and valorisation,

in Europe and AMEA footprints

to both comply with international (Basel Convention), EU (WEEE, RoHS, REACH, 1013) and country regulations

Reduce the use of dangerous and

hazardous substances

and encourage substances substitution

Care about

rare resources, conflict minerals and impacts on biodiversity

waste generated: the figures for Orange (2011)

15%

Focus on WEEE figures (global for France in 2011 - ADEME)

1,66M tons of EEE put on the market (642 millions of equipments of which 90% households, 10% business) quite stable for 5 years

140M of cat 3 (IT and telecom) equipments

470 000 tons collected (175 000 in 2007) : on average 7kg/hab - 78% are recycled

Objective for 2016 : 10kg/hab

Around

42 000 tons of waste

the facts and the figures

in AMEA

The business of electronic products is fast growing

- 2 billions of computer are used in the world

Within 10 years in Africa:

- Number of PC used : X10- Number of mobile subscribers: X100 !

High market share and demand for

second hand and low cost EEE products

by 2017, Africa might generate more e-waste than EU

- Mainly due to the increasing use of mobile phones and computers

- The scheduled obsolescence and the short lifecycle of EEE in Developed countries feed the second-hand

equipments

movements to emerging countries

Informal activities in the e-waste recycling

chain are present in all countries and include collection, manual dismantling, open-burning to recover metals and open dumping of residual fractions

.

what is at stake in emerging countries…

E-waste have value

, regarding the evolution of gold, copper, aluminium, steel, PGM (platinum group metals) market prices

Avoid the import of e-waste and near-end-of-life equipment but the import of second-hand EEE provides also

development opportunitiesContribute to reduce the « numeric gap » - socio-economic aspect refurbishing of EEE and the sales of used EEE is an important economic sector in some countries of West Africa (e.g. Ghana and Nigeria).

well-organized and a dynamic sector that holds the potential for further industrial development allows low and middle income households with affordable ICT equipment and other EEE.For instance : Penetration rate of domestic EEE (iron, fridge, TV, computer) in Ghana and Nigeria is almost as high as in more developed countries in Africa like Morocco and South Africa

Orange has activities and is concerned in Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire, Niger, Cameroun, Egypt, Tunisia ..

solutions to progress and opportunities (1)

A mix of initiatives between companies, governments, NGO, international organizations

Orange countries in Africa are looking for reliable, traceable local solutions

- for pre-processing locally some e-waste (phones, PC, batteries, cables…)

Develop an adapted Legal FrameworkDevelop some local and traceable treatment solutions for dismantling, sorting and first step of treatments:- trained local employees by European recyclers

- involvement of suppliers (EPR approach – also for importers)- ensure regular incomes for the structure- develop agreement frame and certification schemes- aggregate e-waste streams from different operators

Develop

incentives for the informal sector to collaborate with these structures- funding coming from valuable fractions (circuit boards)… to finance the treatment of low value fractions (plastics, screens, toners…)

Partnerships with local treatment units, European industry and government

- highly Interested in these urban mines !

Eco-conception, « Green » procurement

STEP – UNU Initiative example

solutions to progress and opportunities (2)

On the ground collaborative work / best practices and experience sharing with local CSR, sourcing, IT, legal, logistics in Orange country to…

- estimate the level of conformity of WEEE treatment regarding the local regulations and the processes

- check the management of WEEE and other hazardous wastes (batteries, cables…)- know the wastes channels

- check the contracts with recycling companies and suppliers- take into account the procedures and the wastes channels through visits of recycling companies and warehouses- ensure reliable reporting …

ITU-T Involvement

Work already done or going-on in Study Group 5

Toolkit on End-of-Life Management

of ICT Equipment released in 2012

- present requirements for the EOL management that the actors engaged in waste management

started in january 2013 and on-going work item : Q13 Technical paper on life-cycle management of ICT equipment- describe the EOL management stages for ICT equipment (e.g., reuse, recycle, recovery, refurbishment, disposal)- provide technical guidance for refurbishment and repair facilities- identify social, economic and environmental aspects related to the EOL management of ICT equipment.

- ICT Product design (usage of hazardous substances and substitution, sourcing of materials (rare metals, conflict minerals)…)

- include transboundary movement questions

- focus on emerging countries: high challenges for ewaste !

other intiatives – at the EU Level

Strengthen controls against illegal WEEE export from EU states

Recast of WEEE Directive

new

Annex VI to set clear criteria, procedures and controls to distinguish working second hand EEE to WEEE (invoice, evidence and test reports…)on going transposition process by EU state members Call for revision of the 1013 Waste Shipment Regulation

on 11 July 2013, the Commission adopted a proposal

to strengthen inspections on waste shipments

through an amendment of the Waste Shipment Regulation (1013/2006/EC).

high number (~25% ) of illegal waste shipments from EU Member States to countries in Africa and Asia.

inspections and controls of waste shipments appear to vary significantly between Member States.

in some countries only very few and insufficient controls are carried out.

http://ec.europa.eu/environment/waste/shipments/news.htm

A succesful initiative: the Orange France project with Emmaus international

Project launched by Orange France in partnership with Emmaus International NGO

the revenues coming from refurbished mobile phones in France fund local workshop and facilities for WEEE collection and pre-treatment in 5 countries:

Burkina, Bénin, Niger, Madagascar, Côte d’Ivoire

On average 50T/year of weee shipped back to EU for final treatmentEach workshop is helped during 5 years

Thank you !

gilles.dretsch@orange.com

Orange has developed an ambitious strategy to enable it to become the

benchmark for corporate social responsibility in the telecommunications sector.

This approach, central to the Group’s Conquests 2015 strategic project, is

embodied in practical action plans articulated around

four fundamental commitments

a responsible employer

a world lived in trust

an accessible world

a greener world

4 pillars for Orange’s commitment

a greener world, some figures

2 300

solar base stations installed in

20

countries. A production of more than15 GWh solar energy, savings of 28

millions litres of fuel oil; 76 000 t CO

2 emission avoided ;

51,2 %

mobile

31,1 %

internet et fixe

9,2 %

Espagne

7,7 %

Pologne

18,2 %

reste du monde

2,6 %

services opérateurs

47,2%

France

15,1 %

entreprises

CO2 emissions - 1.52 million tonnes of CO2

21 000

servers virtualised, savings of

78 GWh

electricity consumption,

more than

6 200 t

CO

2

emission avoided;

1,4

million mobiles

collected in Europe in 2012,

10%

of the number of new mobiles sold,

a collection rate increasing

ISO 14001 certified scope at year-end

Thank

you