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SUSTAINABILITY
Renewable energy
Our renewable energy projects include the
two solar-powered mobile base transceiver
stations (BTS) located at the headquarters
building StarHub Green and on the roof of
IKEA Store at Alexandra Road. We also have
a solar-powered BTS-enabled vehicle used to
boost signal strength.
Greenhouse gas emissions
Our organisational greenhouse gas
emissions result from the use of electricity,
diesel and petrol. Reducing energy
consumption and continuously improving
energy efficiency are our key strategies to
minimise our carbon footprint.
Ozone Depleting Fugitive Emissions
Our ozone depleting fugitive emissions,
attributed to the use of refrigerant R22 in
air-conditioning equipment, amounted
to 786 tonnes CO2e in 2015 as against
807 tonnes in the prior year.
Waste
Our waste management approach is
based on the principles of “Reduce, Reuse
and Recycle”.
Paper and packaging waste are the main
types of waste generated at our offices. We
have put in place paper and other waste
recycling bins at our offices. As a result of
increased employee awareness, paper waste
at our offices has declined over the years.
We also have in place an e-waste recycling
programme to encourage our employees,
customers and the Singaporean public to
recycle their after-use mobile phones, routers,
set-top boxes, remote controls and more.
REcycling Nation’s Electronic Waste
(RENEW)
Under our RENEW programme, we recycled
31.7 tonnes of e-waste collected from the
public in 2015, much higher than 8.7 tonnes
in 2014.
In 2012, StarHub partnered with TES-AMM
to recycle e-waste with five bins in five
locations. In 2014, StarHub, TES-AMM and
DHL signed MOU to expand the newly
our
environment
renamed RENEW Programme. There are now Under our RENEW
234 bins in 185 locations. programme, we recycled
Examples of items that people can recycle 31.7 tonnes of e-waste
in the RENEW bins include answering collected from the public
machines, cables, car stereos, computer in 2015, much higher than
mice, CDs/ DVDs, docking stations, CD/
DVD/ VCD players, electronic toys, hard 8.7 tonnes in 2014.
drives, keyboards, laptops, lithium-ion (Li-on)
batteries, mobile phones, modems, MP3
players, printed circuit boards, printers,
remote controls, routers, set-top boxes,
telephones, VCRs and wires among other
electronic goods.
DHL delivers the e-waste from the bins
to TES-AMM recycling facility where
the items are manually dismantled into
smaller components which are then fed
into a shredder to be broken down into
increasingly smaller pieces. By this point,
no data is recoverable. Through a chemical
process, metals are extracted and separated
from the plastics and these are all melted
down into bars or pellets for new uses.
StarHub, DHL and TES-AMM comply with
all relevant laws applicable to the RENEW
programme, including but not limited to the
Personal Data Protection Act of Singapore
for any collection, use and/or disclosure of
personal data.
RENEW continues to be Singapore’s most
extensive and inclusive e-waste recycling
programme for the community.
StarHub won the Green Award at the Asia
Communication Awards 2015 for the RENEW
programme.
Recycling
Figures for our recycling programme that
targets paper and e-waste are presented
in the chart overleaf. The figure for e-waste
recycled in 2015 was comparatively lower
than in the preceding two years. E-waste was
higher in 2013 and 2014 as we upgraded the
set-top boxes for our cable TV customers
and replaced the old set-top boxes.