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Buy Back Program for Mobile Devices Adopted by GIE AXA in Paris to Cut IT Carbon Footprint

Implementation Date

January 1, 2020

By

GIE AXA

City

Paris

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Description

GIE AXA, an insurance company, looked for a new offer of telephony for its employees to reduce the carbon footprint generated by its IT equipment. In 2020, they developed an offer for their French entities with reconditioned phones with Back2Buzz. Once a smartphone is needed for a new collaborator or for the replacement of a current phone, an Apple or Android device is provided to the person in question without any financial participation. This implementation includes a 2-year warranty from the refurbishment company, as well as on-site maintenance when required.

Impact & Result

  • Using 1,489 refurbished smartphones has avoided 45 tons of CO2 emissions compared to manufacturing new devices.
  • The 2-year warranty and on-site maintenance reduce repair costs and downtime, ensuring efficient use of resources.

Solution Spotlight

80% of the total smartphone volume sold is estimated to remain in drawers (hibernating). Back2Buzz incentives customers to trade in their old mobile devices, to refurbish them and give them an extended life. By using a widget, an app, and a solid back system, Back2Buzz can give higher residual values for a trade-in device than the competition making it more interesting for a customer to trade in older devices. By refurbishing mobile devices, the life cycle of a mobile device is extended by at least 24 months. At the end of the full life cycle (which can be up to 6 years), Back2Buzz makes sure that those devices are recovered and recycled correctly, meaning that the batterie is recycled by official instances (Bebat) and that other precious elements (gold, silver, copper) are recovered from other components.

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