Device Sustainability at InstaHub
What does sustainability mean for InstaHub?
The Sustainability Development Goals initiative developed in 2019 by the UN was a call to action to help protect and improve upon the global action being taken to tackle the growing effects of climate change. This initiative discussed upon the need for sustainable infrastructure which was defined as ‘development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
In order to meet the criteria of this ideology the UN created three targets to achieve a sustainable future: social inclusion, economic growth and environment protection.
Device Sustainability Innovation and Recognition
InstaHub Devices have been committed to maintaining a carbon negative footprint through our supply chain and decreasing annual costs on electricity. Our mission is to give everyone the ability to give back to society by cutting down on their own carbon emission footprint and positively impacting the communities around us. Our efforts to create a sustainability plan tackle key points such as social responsibility, innovation and conservation.
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We Value Sustainability
InstaHub believes in integrating circular economy and sustainability into our business strategies and products, maintaining our mission to become a carbon negative corporation
UN Sustainability and Development Goals
The UN discusses how investments in sustainable development will help address the growing effects of climate change and thereby reduce the greenhouse gas emissions and rebuild our climate driving the prosperity of public health.
The general consensus across countries is that in order for climate change to be achieved, more sustainable development practices must be enforced through developmental policies and ecologically sound programs. The wellbeing of the future of our world depends on the conservation of our resources and our ability to systematically integrate an approach that would provide back to the environment as well.
The question that we asked ourselves when this company started was what are our sustainability goals and how would our operations would affect the climate and how we would prevent jeopardizing the future and human well being over the long term.
Discussing InstaHub’s mission allowed us to ask questions such as: What steps will we take to make sure we can also provide back to the environment. How would our manufacturing processes be different from companies to ensure that we mitigate the effects of carbon emissions. What processes in our supply chain would allow us to integrate a circular economy and decrease distribution wastage.
InstaHub Highlights towards UN Goals
Fostering Clean and Affordable Energy
There is a large amount of attention towards energy efficiency and the improvement of access to clean fuels and renewable sources of energy. ‘Energy is the dominant contributor to climate change accounting for around 60 per cent of total global greenhouse gas emissions’. Knowing these statistics InstaHub strives use its proprietary sensor based technology to reduce the wastage of electricity on a national and global level.
Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
Competitive economic drive and development over the last few years has generated high levels of employment and economic growth. Although this pandemic has disrupted the normal flow of manufacturing industries and global product chains, technological growth is the key to improving upon the resilience of our global network. At InstaHub, we make it our mission to continuously improve upon our product within our R&D division and grow upon the critical manufacturing drive that runs our industries.
Sustainable Cities and Communities
Rapid Urbanization has led to account for 70% of global carbon emissions which exerts a toll on the environment's ability to provide fresh water, food and an acceptable air quality. Statistics show that unhealthy air quality has resulted in over 4 million deaths a direct result of excessive carbon dioxide and particulate pollution. InstaHub’s goal is to cut the CO2 emission by over 5% by working with all major commercial use buildings and cutting overall electricity wastage.
Sustainability at InstaHub involves more than removing carbon emission production but also using renewed manufacturing material to prevent creation of additional waste products. At InstaHub, we have pursued the true definition of sustainability for a cleaner and brighter future. The creation of InstaHub’s sustainability plan allows us to set goals and a criteria for what we strive to achieve and to show you what our goals will be towards renewability.
"InstaHub's mission is to instantly automate energy savings without creating more waste from the process of replacing existing building infrastructure." - Michael Wong, CEO
Our Sustainability Approach
InstaHub Device Sustainability Division
Our mission is to build extraordinary snap on devices that empower consumers and organizations to decrease energy and carbon footprints globally. This division is responsible for the compliance, design, development, packaging and distribution of our products.
The sustainability initiative is directed and managed by a large team of industry leaders and specialists that are involved in ensuring the compliance of our practices with industry environmental standards. We hope to bring our devices to the market ensuring product compliance supporting the values of ethical renewable material sourcing, reliability and safety.
Assurance and Monitoring
InstaHub Sustainability Principles
InstaHub focuses largely on environmental sustainability with a heavy emphasis on carbon reduction, decrease in energy usage consumption, packaging and end of product life cycle.
The sustainability initiative is directed and managed by a large team of industry leaders and specialists that are involved in ensuring the compliance of our practices with industry environmental standards. We hope to bring our devices to the market ensuring product compliance supporting the values of ethical renewable material sourcing, reliability and safety.
InstaHub Global Human Rights Statement
InstaHub is committed to maintaining a universally recognized human rights framework that addresses the company's social and environmental impact.
We recognize and enforce the framework developed by the United Nations 'Protect, Respect and Remedy' Framework. It discusses the corporate responsibility to respect human rights and protect against human abuse.
Ensuring Supply Chain Sustainability
Our renewable plastics KPI dashboard provides real time visibility on our product plastic renewability providing transparency on our capabilities in decreasing overall global plastic production. Combining this data with optimal locations of renewable plastic sources allows us to scale our model, increasing the acquisition rate of raw material and complexity of our supply chain.
Through our eco-friendly design our devices have been built to be reliable, durable and reparable working towards our model of resource efficiency. Resource efficiency enables us to decrease overall plastic usage decreasing the amount of plastic waste that diverts to landfills.
Selection of materials
Materials that can be recycled or biodegradable
Sourcing of plastics
From locations that are high in PET (Polyethylene Terephthalate)
Product Lifecycle
Durable and Easily reparable
Reduction in number of moving components
Manufacturing
Audited to ensure compliance to energy saving responsibilities and fair labor practices
Sustainable Packaging
Our sustainable packaging division utilizes a proprietary software that takes our packaging model and determines its efficiency in terms of material used towards packaging and its level of being biodegradable.
All our packaging materials come from post-consumer recycled materials and are completely biodegradable. Using this software we have been able to streamline our packaging decreasing weight and overall material cost.
We assess life cycle inventory and create bulk secondary packaging for our commercial consumers to decrease the individual material waste created from individual retail based packaging.
We base our packaging on its durability and longevity as well. After the life expectancy of the device is over owners will be able to use the residential packaging to return the device back as part of the end of life processes.
Packaging will be fitted to close without the need for any sealing material and mailed back
End of Life Processes
With our scaled distribution channels that comply with the EPA Certification Standards, our goal has become to reduce the effect of end of life product wastage. In order to mitigate and decrease the overall wastage of the product at the end of its term, InstaHub has implemented a Mail Back Program that allows commercial or private users to mail back damaged or devices that are out of battery to maintain the long term circularity model that InstaHub strives to achieve.We also strive to implement proprietary processes of breaking down products that are no longer functional into consumer grade plastic pellets that can be melted down and reused to create additional product. Components that cannot be melted down will be sorted based on type and will used in future product chain.
