Monday, January 15th 2024
Razer's Promise for 2024 & Beyond: Incorporation of Recycled Materials
Razer, the leading global lifestyle brand for gamers, has announced another major milestone in their commitment towards a sustainable future, with the inclusion of recycled materials in new PC products launching throughout 2024 and beyond. Focusing on its core PC peripherals, this new initiative covers three key categories: mice, keyboards, and headsets. Initially, only the models produced in Razer's signature black base colorway will feature recycled materials, with more product categories to be added over time.
Razer has been experimenting with the use of recycled materials in product manufacture, with two products already available. The Razer DeathAdder V2 X HyperSpeed gaming mouse contains 40% recycled materials, and the Razer Ornata V3 ergonomic clicky gaming keyboard has at least 20%. With these successful integrations of recycled materials, both products met the strict criteria to achieve the UL 2809 ECOLOGO label, an independently verified ecolabel certification from the world's leading testing, inspection and certification company, UL Solutions. Razer is now pushing the program out to encompass an even wider range of products, for all its core PC peripheral launches from the start of 2024 and onwards.
"Today's gamers want innovation and performance but are acutely aware of the impact plastics have on the world," said Kenneth Ng, Sustainability Lead at Razer. "By using recycled materials in our new products, and working to make our products more recyclable, we're once again delivering on the promises we've made, and are actively working to improve gaming products' circularity and reduce environmental impact."
Aside from the inclusion of recycled materials in manufacturing, Razer is continuing to explore the recyclability of its products, to further minimize the 'end of life' environmental impact of each product. By focusing on both recycled materials and recyclability, Razer is reducing the amount of virgin materials required to make its products, incorporating circularity in product design and further minimizing the impact on the environment.
World's First Consumer Products to have UL-certified EPD
At RazerCon 2023, Razer announced it had submitted two products for the Environmental Product Declaration certified by UL. Razer is delighted to announce that the Razer Basilisk V3 Pro and Razer Basilisk Ultimate are the world's first consumer electronics product to be certified with an Environmental Product Declaration by UL Solutions. UL is a global leader in applied safety science, operating in more than 100 countries, with independent testing, inspection and certification services.
The Environmental Product Declaration enables consumers to make an informed choice about their purchases by displaying the carbon footprint, water, mineral, and fossil resource usage of each product, on the product packaging.
With the Basilisk V3 Pro and Basilisk Ultimate achieving EPD certification, Razer is following through on its commitment to submit to independent verification of its environmental impact measures. This allows gamers to make environmentally friendly choices, with full disclosure from the manufacturer on the resources used to manufacture a product. With this certification, Razer has succeeded in bringing gamers premium quality, high performance, innovative products while meeting the stringent standards of the Product Category Rules. Razer will build on this success with more products being submitted in the future.
Since launching its ten-year sustainability plan #GoGreenWithRazer in 2021, Razer has secured multiple milestones in its sustainability journey. This includes the adoption of the Global Reporting Initiatives (GRI) reporting framework, detailing its decarbonization strategy in line with Science Based Targets (SBT), achieving the goal to have all corporate offices 100% powered by renewable energy sources - three years ahead of the 2025 goal and becoming the world's first consumer electronic brand to take a stand and protest deep sea mining of minerals. With Razer's latest CES sustainability announcements, the brand will continue its journey to ensure that the world remains a safe place for all to game in.
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Razer Press
Razer has been experimenting with the use of recycled materials in product manufacture, with two products already available. The Razer DeathAdder V2 X HyperSpeed gaming mouse contains 40% recycled materials, and the Razer Ornata V3 ergonomic clicky gaming keyboard has at least 20%. With these successful integrations of recycled materials, both products met the strict criteria to achieve the UL 2809 ECOLOGO label, an independently verified ecolabel certification from the world's leading testing, inspection and certification company, UL Solutions. Razer is now pushing the program out to encompass an even wider range of products, for all its core PC peripheral launches from the start of 2024 and onwards.
Aside from the inclusion of recycled materials in manufacturing, Razer is continuing to explore the recyclability of its products, to further minimize the 'end of life' environmental impact of each product. By focusing on both recycled materials and recyclability, Razer is reducing the amount of virgin materials required to make its products, incorporating circularity in product design and further minimizing the impact on the environment.
World's First Consumer Products to have UL-certified EPD
At RazerCon 2023, Razer announced it had submitted two products for the Environmental Product Declaration certified by UL. Razer is delighted to announce that the Razer Basilisk V3 Pro and Razer Basilisk Ultimate are the world's first consumer electronics product to be certified with an Environmental Product Declaration by UL Solutions. UL is a global leader in applied safety science, operating in more than 100 countries, with independent testing, inspection and certification services.
Since launching its ten-year sustainability plan #GoGreenWithRazer in 2021, Razer has secured multiple milestones in its sustainability journey. This includes the adoption of the Global Reporting Initiatives (GRI) reporting framework, detailing its decarbonization strategy in line with Science Based Targets (SBT), achieving the goal to have all corporate offices 100% powered by renewable energy sources - three years ahead of the 2025 goal and becoming the world's first consumer electronic brand to take a stand and protest deep sea mining of minerals. With Razer's latest CES sustainability announcements, the brand will continue its journey to ensure that the world remains a safe place for all to game in.
For more information, please visit this LINK.
9 Comments on Razer's Promise for 2024 & Beyond: Incorporation of Recycled Materials
My experiences with Razer peripherals are that they look worn out and tatty very quickly. Rather than buying a "slightly more eco-friendly" mouse every 18 months, wouldn't it be better to just make a mouse that lasts longer?
I've been gifted a very nice Basilisk V3 Pro which replaced my old MX Anywhere 2 and it looks more tired with its soft-touch plastics already in just 3 weeks than my MX Anywhere 2 which is something like 6 years old. No complaints about the Basilisk's performance, but Razer's questionable plastics are still at play as they've been for every Razer peripheral I've owned since my OG 2006 Deathadder which needed RMA'ing three times for a design fault where the mouse buttons would crash into the scroll wheel and either scroll or click the wheel. I eventually Dremelled the gap wider and then after about 18 months the soft-touch rubber coating started to disintegrate from UV light exposure and looked like a mangy dog until I acetone'd the rest of it off, sanded down the shell and had a matte plastic mouse until left-click failure a little later.
One place I worked years ago, customers would come in and specifically ask if any of our vendors provided "green" materials for what they were bidding on jobs (was flooring material - rubber flooring/tiles/stair treads/wall base) because they got huge rebates/reimbursements from government programs if they used X amount of green material in their jobs. Basically they saw rebates that covered most of their material costs so not only did they make money on the labor for the work, but they got most of the materials paid for. So when they passed on the cost of the materials to the customer in their bid, not only did they charge the customer for the material cost (plus whatever markup), they were also getting their money back from the rebates.
All the consumer is seeing from Razer is that they're using more recycled material and most consumers that are into that are thinking, "Yeah Razer! You're so awesome for using recycled material." What they're not being told is that Razer is getting reimbursed for some of cost some where, but they are not passing on the savings to the consumer, they're just pocketing it.
This isn't just something Razer does, a lot of companies do it and consumers just don't know or realize it is happening.
I also had a Razzer deathaddition a few years ago, and after 3 months of light, casual use, it looked 10x worse than my then 4 year old MX Master 2's, so I chunked it & bought a new MX to replace it, which is still functioning perfectly today & still looks almost brand new, even though it gets WAY more use (10hrs/day x 6 days/wk) than the DA ever did....
They can make all the promises they want, I still aint buyin no moar of their overpriced, over-hyped garbaggio :D
It's like Linux users are 2nd class or worse to both razer and logitech is there a mice/keyboard brand that's worth a damn in Linux anymore?
I fought hours to get a wireless keyboard paired in Linux for a Logitech!
And my razer mouse causes red text errors in journalctl and none of the razer software works right and none of my settings stick lately!