LG details recycling activities

LG Electronics, a South Korean maker of consumer and automotive electronics goods and components, has provided insight into its recent recycling activities in its newly released 2024–2025 sustainability report.

The company lists its recycling accomplishments that have contributed to its progress toward its 2030 environmental targets, which also include reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Referring to its progress in resource circulation, LG says it achieved a 97.4 percent landfill diversion rate at its global production sites last year, surpassing its 2030 goal of a 95 percent rate.

The company also says it collected more than 530,000 tons of used electronics in 2024, with the material harvested from more than 90 locations in 56 different countries, bringing its cumulative e-scrap collection total to more than 5 million tons since 2006.

Also on the recycling front, LG says it increased the amount of recycled plastic used in its products by 36 percent in 2024 compared with the prior year.

Figures provided in the report indicate LG used slightly less than 33,000 tons of recycled plastic in 2022 and about 54,400 tons in 2023. Last year, LG was able to increase that figure to more than 74,000 tons.

The company’s stated goal is to use at least 600,000 tons of recycled plastic by 2030.

LG says its efforts have helped it rank in the top 1 percent of S&P Global’s Corporate Sustainability Assessment for two consecutive years.