Collaboration with suppliers and customers as well as with internal departments such as marketing, purchasing, and transportation is helping Microsoft take steps toward sustainability. This photo contrasts Older-larger-packages for software and hardware with newer-smaller-and more efficient ones.
For software packaging (the group of packages to the left) Microsoft is reducing and standardizing carton materials and reducing box carton spine sizes (rear). Microsoft is eliminating PVC from packaging (right rear) and moving to other material options, like PET, or completely removing outer clamshell packaging (center right). Printed software manuals are being reduced in weight, page count, and overall size (center left). Standardizing disk sleeves (front) leverage a common single material design that also allows automation of disk packaging.
