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A group of speakers, including Arc, Sub, Move and One, were taken on September 28, 2020.
The photo was taken by Neil Godwin/Future Publishing.
The speakers and other products will use less energy. It is part of the company's larger plan to make itself more sustainable, with a focus on reducing e-waste and the pollution that drives climate change.
Making its devices easier to repair and recycle is part of the new plans for Sonos. The company started a program this year called "Design for Disassembly" that it wants to guide the development of all of its new speakers. It can be easier for consumers to take apart Sonos products for repair if there is a change to the way they are made.
The pollution that drives climate change is minimizing e-waste.
There isn't much information about this program yet. When asked if it will make replacement parts and repair manuals available, the company did not say anything. The program is intended to make it easier to repair, refurbished and recycle future Sonos products, according to Deji Olukotun, the director of policy and corporate social responsibility.
The company plans to use post-consumer recycled plastic in all of its products by the end of the year. This might prevent some plastic from ending up in landfills, oceans, or animals' bellies, but recycling overall has been a pretty meager solution for the world's plastic pollution problem. Tech companies mix recycled plastic with virgin plastic to make new products because plastic degrades each time it is re-hashed. Some experts are worried that a hot market for recycled plastic could lead to more demand for new plastic.
Sleep mode is a feature that will be included in all of the products by the year 2023. Sleep mode is already on some speakers, but the feature is new on the Roam speaker. The goal is for the products to use less than 2 watt.
The company has the biggest source of carbon dioxide emissions.
By making its speakers more energy- efficient, Sonos is tackling the company's biggest source of planet- heating carbon dioxide emissions. The energy used by the products over their lifetime is the majority of the company's carbon footprint. Consumer electronics typically emit up to 80 percent of CO2 emissions from manufacturing, according to a report by the environmental group. CO2 emissions equivalent to 267,528 cars driven over a year were caused by Sonos between supply chains and consumers.
The company is trying to set long-term goals for addressing climate change. It wants to cut emissions from its products energy use by 45 percent by 2040, and it wants to use a mixture of carbon offsets and new technologies to eliminate CO2 from the atmosphere.
Paying for forests to soak up carbon dioxide has a checkered history. The technologies that can pull CO2 out of the air haven't scaled up to meet the needs of all the companies. It's urgent for Sonos to reduce its environmental footprint in the first place.
