Environmental Stewardship

Our Environmental Sustainability Policy articulates our global view of sensible environmental management. Our Environmental Health and Safety Management System provides structure to assess EHS impacts and risks in our organization, allocate resources, and drive continual performance improvement.

Medtronic uses several enterprise-wide initiatives to reduce our environmental impact, including green IT, a global print policy to reduce paper use, and facility standards that reduce energy consumption for temperature and lighting. We also continue to incorporate emerging technologies and advancements in sustainability, such as renewable energy.

We established the Medtronic EHS Sustainability Award to recognize facilities that have achieved superior results in eliminating waste, recycling and reusing materials, improving employee health and safety, promoting the use of renewable energy, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and conserving energy and water to minimize our impact on the environment.

All Medtronic facilities are eligible to submit nominations for this annual award.

We actively seek the ideas of individuals throughout the organization to save energy, reduce water use, generate less waste, and increase recycling.

To encourage participation among all employees, Medtronic launched a Go Green for Life environmental awareness program to communicate our goals and share success stories company-wide. Go Green for Life also promotes individual action on everything from desk-side recycling to maximizing power-saving options on personal computers, reducing manufacturing and packaging waste, and reducing carbon emissions through personal food choices and the use of alternative transportation.