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Reducing Telstra's Environmental Impact
When planning and maintaining Telstra's telecommunication networks, great
care is taken by Telstra to consider the surrounding environment, including
environmental factors such as:
- World heritage values
- Flora and fauna
- Geology and soils
- Noise, and
- Air quality.
Telstra aims to minimise environmental impacts during both construction
and ongoing operation and maintenance. With good environmental planning
Telstra can minimise, for example, noise and visual impacts on our neighbours,
erosion resulting from disturbance of soil, and disruption to local flora
and fauna.
Reducing Energy Use
Reducing energy usage is a key area that Telstra has been focusing on,
and its plans to reduce energy use are on track. Since the year 2000,
Telstra has aimed to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions resulting from
its energy usage by 6 per cent (or 74,400 tonnes) up to September 2002.
This reduction is equal to the emissions from approximately 8,200 average
homes for an entire year. To achieve this target, Telstra is:
- Replacing old payphones with Telstra 'Smart Payphones', which consume
50 per cent less power
- Switching off computer monitors when not in use
- Improving lighting and air conditioning controls
- Reducing wasted space in buildings and
- Some of Telstra's fleet cars will be converted to LPG, as gas has
lower greenhouse emissions than petrol.
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