Environmental
Sustainability and ensuring a healthy and thriving global supply chain is core to our business strategy. Our company and our culture are built upon responsible operations spanning a vast and far-reaching supply chain as well as a global footprint.
IGXGlobal strives to generate value for our stakeholders while being a good steward of the environment and the earth’s natural resources.
Across the IGXGlobal portfolio of solutions and services we are committed to:
- Operating our business in a manner that reduces our impact on the environment, reduces pollution, and protects the environment and natural resources.
- Managing the life cycle of our products, equipment and solutions in an environmentally responsible manner, including retirement and appropriate disposal.
- Maintaining full compliance with applicable environmental laws, regulations, and other obligations with opportunities for conservation of natural resources, recycling, source reduction and pollution control. We require this same compliance of our business partners.
Enhancing Operational Efficiency through Warehouse Optimisation
We are committed to enhancing our operational efficiency and reducing our environmental impact by consolidating our warehouse operations into a single, modern facility. This initiative will significantly decrease our energy consumption and physical footprint. The new warehouse will be outfitted with cutting-edge technologies, including motion-sensor lighting and high-efficiency heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, along with a comprehensive recycling program. These improvements are aimed at creating a more sustainable operation by optimising energy use and minimising waste.
Optimising Energy Use in IT Infrastructure
We are taking decisive steps to optimize our energy use by centralising our computer labs into one highly efficient hub. This strategic move will lead to a reduction in the number of physical labs required, thus decreasing the demand for cooling and power without compromising our operational effectiveness. The new lab will feature advancements such as energy-efficient HVAC equipment, UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) systems designed to adjust power output based on actual energy needs, and innovative cabinet designs that require less power for cooling. These measures are designed to significantly reduce our energy consumption, contributing to our overall efforts to operate more sustainably and responsibly.
Asset Disposition
We prioritise the appropriate disposal and retirement of technology assets across our organisation, ensuring that all disposition meets or exceeds approved environmental recommendations and standards. IGXGlobal partners with organisations that hold e-Stewards, R2, and NAID AAA Certifications, demonstrating our support to help customers promote conservation, recycle and efficiently use energy, minimise impact on the environment and reduce operating costs. As this is an important priority for us, we also help our customers with these needs, including data destruction and responsible recycling for nearly any electronic devices. Services we offer to our customers include asset reallocation, decommissioning and disposal, recycling kits, asset refresh and buy back, and inventory/serial number capture.
Office Spaces
IGXGlobal’s office locations provide a safe and productive home base for more than 1,000 of our employees. When we look for new office space to lease, we consider the environmental footprint of that location, including whether the space has any energy-related certifications, complies with all relevant green standards such as LEED and Green Globes and has carbon emission reduction goals. Our offices typically include energy-efficient features such as LED lights that turn off automatically, energy-efficient HVAC systems and insulation ratings, and recycling receptors.
Environmental Policy
We consistently attempt to partner with organisations who are environmentally aware and responsible. All of our major manufacturing partners employ and prioritise environmental sustainability practices of their own.
Recycling
ePlus encourages our employees to reduce waste by refraining from printing, encouraging and facilitating recycling materials by placing receptacle containers for paper, plastics, cans and bottles in our worksites.
Supply Chain
The ePlus vendor landscape includes Arista Networks, Cisco, Dell Technologies, HP Inc., HPE, Juniper Networks and NetApp, all of whom have publicly-stated commitments to the environment.
Our Roots Grow Deep:
We are proud to have added an environmental cause to our charitable efforts this year by committing to plant 10,000 trees through One Tree Planted, a non-profit organisation dedicated to making it easier for individuals and businesses to give back to the environment, create a healthier climate, protect biodiversity, and help reforestation efforts around the world. This mission fits perfectly with the IGXGlobal mantra of helping our customers see the forest “and” the trees when it comes to their IT strategy. We have combined this environmental-wellness initiative with the wellness initiatives of our employees, leveraging the natural synergies between the two, and planting trees on behalf of employees who make self-care a priority, and share details of those efforts with us.