Lexmark Chief Sustainability Officer John Gagel on the power of marginal gains
“Our ability to provide our customers with auditable verifiable carbon footprint data for a fleet of devices is increasingly important.”
John Gagel started leading sustainability efforts at printing solutions manufacturer Lexmark in 2005 – 10 years before the signing of the Paris Agreement. At the time, “you couldn’t go to university to get a degree in sustainability,” he explains, so he and his team simply “started digging into it”.
Over the past two decades, the company has reduced water consumption by 75%, and reused or recycled hundreds of millions of cartridges – and since 2015, Lexmark has cut operational emissions by 43% to about 70,000 tonnes, mainly through energy efficiency measures.
