Microsoft plans to stop generating trash from its operations by 2030. Also pledged to stop using single-use plastics in its packaging by 2025.

The company will set up’circular centers’ to allow the company to reuse or recycle 90 percent of its waste on site, instead of sending it to third-party recyclers. The company also pledged to eliminate waste from its own manufacturing process.

Last year, Microsoft’s largest office complexes sent 3,189 metric tons of waste to landfills. The new commitment aims to bring that down to zero over the next decade. E-Waste from Microsoft’s offices is a much bigger problem.

Advocates have pushed electronics companies to design their products to last longer and to collect and recycle devices they make at the end of their useful lives.

Right to repair laws would require companies to release information on its products that would let consumers do repairs on their own or through third parties. Advocates say that they could help keep products in use – and keep them out of landfills.

Microsoft has designed its surface laptop and Surface Pro X so that they are easier than previous models to take apart and fix. Microsoft says its renewed focus on cutting down waste has n’t changed its stance when it comes to the’right to repair’.

Microsoft’s general manager of energy and sustainability says’we are absolutely committed to increasing the repairability of our own products’.

‘this is sort of our first step in a journey,’ says janous.’there’s going to be a lot more to come as we learn more about how we can influence that waste lifecycle’.