Reducing Paessler resource use with a pragmatic business model
Paessler and Closing the Loop team up to enable waste neutral electronics for the company. The company had a wish to reduce their resource use by implementing practical steps. Collaborating with Closing the Loop was such an easy, pragmatic step!
Paessler believes monitoring plays a vital part in reducing humankind’s consumption of resources. Data provided by Paessler PRTG monitoring software helps their customers save resources, from optimizing their IT, OT and IoT infrastructures, to reducing energy consumption or emissions. In July 2020, Paessler explained how their company purpose came to life and influenced the vision of the company to become carbon neutral, which was reached in 2020 already.
Two things were of uttermost importance to Paessler since the company was founded in 1997. One was to take practical steps instead of just starting with theoretical considerations. Examples would be to compensate for all flights, installing a PV plant on the HQ’s roof and organizing an internal event to educate colleagues and their families on the impact of climate change. Second, Paessler aims to reduce their company-wide resource use and, with the help of Closing the Loop, the reduction of electronic waste has proven to be another important piece to ensure the sustainable efforts of their journey.
The Idea
Client
Start of the partnership
2022
The Objectives
- Make a concrete impact on the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal 12; introducing more sustainable consumption within the company;
- Enable reduction of the overall resource consumption of the company;
- Contribute to the corporate climate neutrality strategy;
- Reduce the company’s waste output by compensating their IT products;
- Prepare the company and employees for the future needs;
- Take practical steps today, rather than tomorrow or in the future
The Plan
The Service
For every phone and notebook Paessler buys and is used by Paessler employees, Closing the Loop collects an equivalent amount of waste in countries where there is no recycling facility. Paessler is also compensating their monitors by supporting the ECoN pilot project by Closing the Loop and Öko-Institut, Germany’s leading environmental research institute. The project is co-funded by the PREVENT Waste Alliance, an initiative of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
The Result
By compensating the devices Paessler buys every year, the company is now using their devices waste-neutral. This achievement enables Paessler employees to use their devices without negatively impacting the environment. With this story, Paessler could easily add to their purpose statement and reach their two main goals: waste reduction and practical implementation. Paessler also released a blog article to inform and engage their employees and stakeholders.
