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Improving Operational Recycling
Throughout our facilities, we have made a commitment to minimizing our waste through effective recycling
and reuse of our waste materials. In 2005, we improved our equipment reuse process to increase
the volume of tools reused and successfully found markets for the excess equipment that Intel no longer
needs. We reused more than 600 wafer fabrication process tools worldwide. By reusing and reselling
equipment, we avoided generating approximately 650 tons of solid waste disposal and reduced the
impact on the environment of new tool production.
In 2005, we also recycled more than 55% of our worldwide chemical waste by working with our chemical
waste vendor to find new industrial uses for a particular copper waste stream. By incorporating a unique
closed-loop extraction process, the copper oxides in the waste are dried and sold directly to copper smelters.
In 2005, more than 1 million gallons of waste were directly reused rather then recycled, effectively
reducing Intel’s environmental footprint.
Sustainable Food Service
Beginning in 2000, Intel and our cafeteria food supplier in Oregon embarked on a strategic partnership
to develop and implement a sustainable food-service program. Over the last five years, it has evolved
to include local and regional suppliers and restaurateurs, and has become a benchmark for sustainable
food-service practices. This effort reduces the impact on the environment by supporting sustainable
agricultural products, which are produced with fewer pesticides, chemicals and hormones. Additionally, all
the organic kitchen waste materials are incorporated into a food-composting program with a landscape
supplier. This Intel-supplier effort has led to the development of a sustainable food-service model that
has provided significant value to Intel, our food-service vendor, local suppliers/farmers and our community.
Intel is using the successful solutions from these programs in our other U.S. cafeterias.
Intel Ireland Hosts Field
Trip for Environmental
Report Launch
Members of the local community
and 24 students from local
primary schools enjoyed a special
field trip as part of the launch of
the Intel Ireland Environmental
Report, an in-depth environmental
survey of the Intel Ireland campus.
The study investigated and
recorded the different habitats
located on the site as well as the
insects, amphibians, mammals
and bird species found there. Field
trip participants armed with bug
boxes and lots of enthusiasm
identified wood lice, millipedes,
sticky slugs, ladybirds, tadpoles,
and deer tracks.
Recognizing Environmental Excellence
Craig Barrett and inventor
Brian LaTrobe.
Intel Environment Award. For the fifth year, Intel sponsored the San
Jose, California-based Tech Museum Awards, an international competition
that honors innovators from around the world who apply technology to
benefit humanity. Intel Chairman Craig Barrett handed the winning trophy
for the Intel Environment Award and a $50,000 check to Brian LaTrobe
of South Africa, principal of Enviro Options (Pty) Ltd., developer of the
Enviro Loo. The Enviro Loo is a non-flush, waterless sanitation system that
addresses the problem of polluted ground-water supplies, tainted lakes
and rivers, waterborne diseases, and general environmental degradation caused by human body waste in
shallow-pit latrines. The Enviro Loo uses a natural biological process powered by the absorption of radiant
heat from the sun, wind power and natural bacterial activity.
The other Intel Environment Award Laureates honored in 2005 included CTx GreEn, Canada; Envirofit
International, Ltd., Colorado; Norman Holy, Pennsylvania; and the Reef Ball Foundation, Georgia. For more
information on their projects, as well as those of past laureates, visit the Tech Museum Awards web site.
Intel Corporate Responsibility Report 2005 • Environment
www.intel.com/go/responsibility
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