DESIGN
We know that improving our products is the best way to reduce our impact on the environment. That's
why, at Optoma, we design our products to have a long usable life, use fewer materials, ship with less
packaging and eradicate the use of many toxic substances. Naturally, high levels of energy efficiency
and recyclability are built in at the design stage. With each new product, we strive towards minimizing
our environmental impact.
MANUFACTURING
We work closely with our manufacturing partners to ensure efficient and green production processes,
so that you can be sure that the Optoma products you buy are manufactured to have a minimal environmental
impact. Our projectors are manufactured in ISO 14064-certified factories, ensuring that greenhouse gas
emissions are strictly monitored. Our aim is to work with our partners to continue to reduce the impact
of the manufacturing process. Over the last ten years, we have been at the forefront of meeting and
exceeding green legislation.
The roHs Directive- Toxic Substance Removal
The RoHS Directive limits the use of heavy metals (including lead, cadmium, mercury, chromium VI) and
two brominated flame retardants (PBB and PBDE). At Optoma, we were compliant well before these requirements
became law in 2006.
Green Mark
As early as 2008, Optoma projectors complied with the stringent Green Mark that requires that products
meet strict requirements limiting the use of six chemical substances. These standards are stricter than
RoHS and expressly define that a plastic component heavier than 25g shall not contain lead, cadmium,
mercury, hexavalent chromium, PBBs, PBDEs and SCCP.
However, at Optoma we don't just react to legislation, one of our key objectives as an environmentally
responsible company is to eliminate the use of all hazardous chemicals. This means we strive to ensure
we are at the forefront of chemical management improvements and the elimination of hazardous substances.
Of course, Optoma is fully committed to making sure that working conditions in our supply chain are
safe. Our employees are treated with respect and dignity, and we strive to ensure that our processes
are environmentally responsible.
PACKAGING
Optoma design teams have developed packaging that aims to be as small, light and ecologically friendly
as possible whilst still fully protecting our products. This kind of efficient packaging design not
only keeps materials and waste to a minimum but also reduces our carbon footprint during the transportation
process. Additionally, we have eradicated the use of polystyrene foam in our packaging to further protect
the environment.
Today, Optoma no longer produces paper based user-manuals and brochures for many of our products, preferring
to conserve resources by making them available either on CD or directly downloadable from our website.
TRANSPORTATION
By ensuring that our packaging is as small and light as possible, we can fit more boxes onto each shipping
pallet, reducing the overall number of pallets we need to ship. Fewer pallets means fewer planes and
boats are used, resulting in fewer CO2 emissions. Shipping by sea is by far the greenest method of bulk
transportation. Over the past ten years, Optoma has consistently sought to increase the proportion of
shipments by sea, so reducing harmful CO2 emissions.
A percentage of Optoma greenhouse gas emissions are as a result of transporting our products from our
distribution points in 2010, we have introduced warehousing in the Midwest region to further reduce
the need for unnecessary transportation emissions. Wherever possible we deliver direct to distribution
hubs in regions where our products are sold.
ENERGY EFFICIENCY
Most greenhouse gas emissions that Optoma is responsible for are produced when our products are plugged-in
and used. That's why it's so important for our products to be as energy efficient as possible. Optoma
is at the forefront of introducing the most energy efficient products in the industry.
- Less than 1 Watt power consumption in standby mode. Optoma was the first company to introduce projectors
that consume up to 75 percent less energy compared to regular standby mode and we are committed to reducing
our standby mode to less than 0.5W by 2013
- Optoma products are designed to limit energy use with features such as automatic shutdown and remote
management and control.
- We are developing new technologies, such as LED light sources, to increase lamp life and reduce the
need to use the earth's valuable resources.
RECYCLING
Optoma designs products that last. Our approach to recycling begins with making our products efficiently
with as few materials as possible. We've also consistently improved the lamp-life of our projectors,
saving you money and producing less waste. Nevertheless, at some point there will come a time when it
will be necessary to recycle your product.
At Optoma, we fully subscribe to ISO 14001 Environmental Standards which aim to minimize the negative
impact on the environment during the e-waste recycle process, which aims to reduce the amount of electrical
and electronic equipment being produced and to encourage everyone to reuse, recycle and recover it..
We also encourage everyone to bring their projector to a nearby certified recycling facility at the
end of its life.