Lunatico and the Environment
Hands up if, like me, you are old enough to have owned a computer monitor as deep as it was wide. If you did, the chances are, that unlike the drawer full of old phones and chargers, you took your no-longer-state-of the-art 1024 x 768 17” colossus to your recycling depot and never gave another thought to what happened to it next.
The highly acclaimed, Austrian, documentary film from 2018 with the provocative title, ‘Welcome To Sodom’, provides the answer to that question. It tells the story of some of the 6000 men, women and children who live on one of the world’s largest disposal sites for electrical waste in Accra.
It’s impossible to watch the film, which is surprisingly upbeat in places, without questioning the consequences of the modern consumer societies in which most of us live.
As a small business in the electronics sector, Lunatico makes a contribution to the world’s electronic waste, something that we can’t deny. We can and do, however, attempt to make our impact on the planet as small as possible. Amongst some of the policies that we follow are:
• Recycling packaging material.
• Keeping our own packaging to a minimum.
• Making maximum use of digital documentation.
• Using electronic delivery of software.
• Shipping most of our products without chargers.
• Where possible, repairing rather than replacing defective products.
• Working to reduce the energy consumption of our products.
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