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Green Statement

For the environment, sustainable development, and customer health, Zyxel committed to developing non-hazardous, energy-efficient and environmentally friendly products. And we comply with global regulations (RoHS, REACH, POPs, PPW, WEEE, etc..) that promote environmental sustainability policy and activity. Our design principles are as follows:
  • Use non-hazardous materials
  • Reduce materials or use renewable materials
  • Reduce product weight and volume
  • Easy to use
  • Easy to disassemble and recycle
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product design principles
Print content of QSG/warranty card on the brown box and scan with QRcode to save paper and printing waste.
product design principles
Redesign and optimize the structure to reduce overall weight, volume of packaging, and increase stacking efficiency.
product design principles
Product packaging reduces the use of plastic bags.

Energy-efficient management

Zyxel aims to work on reducing the energy consumption of networking products and improve energy efficiency. In order to reduce energy lost from power conversion.

Choose higher efficiency Power adapter from 77 percent to 83 percent to reduce energy lost from power conversion. Most of the Power adapters can support at least 85 percent active power efficiency.
PoE feature supply the actual watts that the devices need with auto-detection capability to reduce the power consumption and increases the potential amount of connected power devices.

As a global corporate citizen, Zyxel fulfills its social responsibility for human rights and environmental protection. We commits not use conflict minerals, and follow the requirement of the Responsible Minerals Initiative and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) "Guidelines for Due Diligence of Mineral Supply Chains in Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas", implement regular due diligence to require all suppliers to disclose the use of smelters relevant information by using the latest Conflict Minerals Reporting Template (CMRT) for Gold, Tin, Tungsten, Tantalum and Extended Minerals Reporting Template (EMRT) for Cobalt and Mica.

Annual Mineral Source Survey

Zyxel conduct annual survey of conflict mineral source on product and supplier, survey coverage % are as follows.

Survey results

A pie chart titled Product Coverage shows 99.7%, highlighting a strong focus on energy-efficient products.
A pie chart titled Supplier Coverage shows 97.6% coverage, highlighting the focus on energy-efficient and environment-friendly initiatives.

For 2024, Distribution area and numbers of qualified smelters listed in the following.

A pie chart showing global gold distribution: Asia 48%, Europe 18%, Eurasia 10%, North America 9%, Africa 5%, South America 5%, Middle East 3%, Oceania 2%. Segments are labeled, highlighting regions with strong environmental policies.
A pie chart titled Tantalum shows sourcing by region: Asia 59%, North America 16%, South America 11%, Eurasia 8%, and Europe 5%. Each region’s percentage and sources are labeled, reflecting environmental policies in tantalum sourcing.
A pie chart showing global tin distribution for environment-friendly products: Asia 74%, South America 15%, Europe 5%, North America 3%, Eurasia 1%, Africa 1%. Each region’s percentage is labeled with the corresponding unit count in parentheses.
A pie chart showing global tungsten distribution for environment-friendly products: Asia 60%, Eurasia 19%, North America 8%, Europe 6%, and South America 6%. Each percentage includes the number of producers, highlighting regions investing in energy-efficient products.
A pie chart showing global cobalt distribution for environment-friendly products: Asia 62%, Africa 20%, Europe 8%, North America 5%, Eurasia 3%, Oceania 2%.
A pie chart showing global mica distribution for environment-friendly products: Asia 86%, Europe 14%.

Recycling

green statement recycling

Based on the requirements of the PPW Directive 94/62/EC and fulfilling the responsibility for environmental protection, packaging materials are designed with reduced volume and weight, easy to recycle and non-hazardous. and the plastic package are marked according to ISO 11469.

Zyxel is responsible to ensure that the product design considers waste reduction, recycling, and disposal based on repair, upgrade, reuse, and disassembly and complies with the requirements of the WEEE directive and fulfills its recycling responsibilities.

Zyxel is registered directly with the national WEEE Registry and/or the WEEE collective scheme, and has labeled its products with the appropriate WEEE logo and added relevant information about the recycling considerations to its customers in the documentation provided with the product.