Advances in material reuse

Reducing our use of virgin plastic

In our efforts to cut our environmental impact, we want to significantly reduce the amount of virgin plastic that we use in our products. In development, we're increasingly choosing recycled or biobased plastics over virgin fossil-based plastic.

This includes phasing out chemicals like PVC and BFR. And we’re teaming up with suppliers and recyclers worldwide to create packaging and products using more recycled materials than before.

Improving recyclability and designing with biobased plastic

Products eventually reach the end of their life with you. When that happens, you want to be sure there are environmentally conscious ways to dispose of them. As part of our journey towards sustainable product design, by 2025 we aim to design 100% of our products in line with our Philips EcoDesign requirements.

We have been designing products with recycled plastics and bio-based materials since 2010. Today, our use of sustainable materials extends to some of our hair dryer portfolio, baby monitors and shavers.

Philips Sonicare toothbrush heads are another example of our commitment to EcoDesign, with a select (but growing) number of models now designed with 75% bio-based materials. Aside from sustainable product design initiatives, we’re also continuing to increase the number of products with paper-based packaging. We’re also removing unwanted chemicals to improve our products’ recyclability.

Making our efforts count

In 2024, all our new products fulfilled our EcoDesign requirements.

We’ve already removed chemicals that make recycling Philips products difficult (like PVC and BFR) in most of our products. Our next goal is to phase them out entirely by 2025.

90% of our consumer product sales consist of PVC/BFR-free products.

We exclude power cords from this ambition for safety reasons.

More on our sustainability efforts

Carbon neutrality and energy efficiency

Our Philips sustainability efforts are a continuous process. As previously mentioned, we became 100% carbon-neutral in our own operations in 2020 and have remained carbon neutral ever since¹. Our designers and engineers have been working for more than 30 years to increase the energy efficiency of the products we make, helping our consumers use less energy too.
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Keeping products and materials in use

Innovation at Philips means offering access to products that fit your life and align with your sustainable values. We’re trying to make your choice simpler, doing our best to embed sustainability as part of a product’s entire offering, designing them with less raw materials, and enabling reuse and responsible recycling at the end of their life with you.
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Our approach to sustainability at Philips

Learn how Philips is embedding environmental sustainability across its business, contributing to a healthy planet and communities.
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