As 3Com designs energy saving solutions, we consider the entire product life cycle, including manufacturing and end-of-life recycling. We continually taking steps to reduce waste, minimize raw material usage and decrease shipping weights.

Some examples of how our focus helps the environment, and helps you save money:

• we design products to minimize discrete component count, reducing the amount of raw materials required and saving power.
• environmental safety and recycling is a required part of product design, ensuring the selection of materials and designs that can be effectively recycled.
• our new products come with innovative strengthening bars embedded into the chassis, improving structural stength while allowing us to use thinner steel, thereby reducing metal use and shipping weight
• our product packaging has been reduced, decreasing materials use, shipping weight and space.
• product documentation is published online, eliminating printed materials and CDs from most of our products.
  

Environmental Directives
3Com products comply with — or exceed — environmental directives and regulations, such as:

• European Union’s Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment (RoHS) directive
• China RoHS: “Administrative Measures on the Control of Pollution Caused by Electronic Information Products” for our products shipped to China
• WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) standards

Learn more about 3Com’s compliance with global environmental initiatives.