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Ford's micromobility arm Spin has pledged to be carbon negative by 2025, in the same week that e-scooter giant Voi announced plans for a rollout in Cambridgeshire. Sarah George told edie that Spin was acquired by Ford in 2018, currently operates in 62 cities, 20 universities and corporate campuses across the US. It also launched in Cologne, Germany, this summer, Ford plans a broader rollout in Germany , France and other European markets in the coming years. After suffering a sharp drop in demand in the first half of 2020 and seeing demand rise as lockdown restrictions began to ease in its markets, Spin this week revealed its aspiration to be carbon negative by 2025. Spin will quantify the trips that are replacing car trips and calculate the resulting emissions reductions, adding them to its carbon accounting. It will also seek to reduce emissions associated with its manufacturing, operation and the energy used to power its scooters. Regarding the latter, targets have been set to switch to 100% renewable electricity for charging and ensure that all Spin vehicles have a useful life of at least 24 months. Spin maintenance and the company's fleet of cars will also be transformed into electric vehicles (EV). If, once these activities are completed, Spin's net carbon footprint is positive or zero, Spin will invest in neutralization. We have to take responsibility for tracking the carbon emitted when providing our service… If we are truly offering a more sustainable mode of transport to cities, we should be removing more carbon than we produce. This is facilitated by the fact that we employ the majority of the people who deploy, collect and charge our scooters, using Spin vans and warehouses.
Operators who use personal vehicles and charge at home face a difficult challenge in accounting for these emissions. Shivam Vohra, Spin's senior program manager for sustainability initiatives. Spin's announcement comes the same week that Swedish e-scooter rental giant Voi revealed plans to bring its service to Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. From September, residents and visitors Bulgaria Mobile Number List will be able to hire scooters for a charge of £1 plus 20p per minute, or by purchasing a daily (£10) or monthly (£40) Voi subscription. The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Authority (CPCA) will offer subsidized passes for low-income groups, at a cost of £10 per month. The CPCA estimates that scooters will mitigate 395 tonnes of CO2e in a year, as they are commonly used to replace short trips normally made in petrol or diesel cars. By August 2021, a decision will be made on the rollout of the scooters. In March, the Departments for Transport (DfT) and Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) launched a multi-million pound fund to carry out three real-world e-scooter trials in Portsmouth and Southampton, Derby and Nottingham as well as the west of England. Rental e-scooters were legalized in the UK at the end of June, as part of the Government's attempts to encourage active travel after lockdown.
The multinational technology company has committed to reducing its direct waste footprint to zero within a decade, as part of a new resource strategy that will boost the recyclability of its devices and see plastic packaging completely eliminated. The zero waste goal by 2030 covers Microsoft's direct operations, products and packaging. According to edie , in these areas, the tech giant will “reduce almost as much waste as it generates” through reuse and recycling initiatives, before offsetting residual waste by investing in external circular economy initiatives. About 90% of the materials currently wasted in Microsoft's direct operations will be diverted from landfill and incineration within a decade. It will install “Circle Centers,” which use machine learning to process servers and hardware out of service, in its data centers and R&D campuses as well as offices to achieve this goal. Announcement. The trial of a Microsoft “Circular Center” in Amsterdam was successful, reducing downtime, increasing the availability of server and network parts to reduce costs and emissions associated with logistics. These installations will be installed in new Microsoft data centers in the first instance, before being implemented in older facilities. Regarding products and packaging, Microsoft's new strategy includes commitments to eliminate all plastic components from its packaging by 2025 in order to ensure that all remaining boxes are 100% recyclable within the same time frame; ensuring that all Surface devices are fully recyclable within a decade.