Another sustainability focus area specific to products is hazardous substances that may pose risks to customers or the environment.
Micron’s EHS and Product Compliance experts collaborate to ensure product compliance with legal and customer requirements related to hazardous substances, such as the European Union directive on the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances (RoHS) and the registration, evaluation, authorisation and restriction of chemicals (REACH). Today, these regulations focus on hazardous materials. Ultimately, they may become part of a broader list of restricted substances that includes substances known to be hazardous as well as those with potential to be harmful. Proactive product compliance, validation and certification processes allow us to deliver new products quickly while ensuring proper restricted substance control and conformance with current and future requirements.
High-purity chemicals, some with hazardous properties, are also required in Micron’s manufacturing processes. See Hazardous Substances & Waste Management for more information about how we manage these substances during manufacturing.
Regular reviews of content and packaging needs help us to reduce the environmental impact of our products. Our EHS organization, Product Compliance group and Global Procurement teams work together to ensure that Micron products and processes meet customer and legal product compliance requirements. When new substances are added to relevant regulatory lists, our procurement team communicates new requirements throughout our supply chain, reminds suppliers of Micron’s expectations and applicable documentation, and requires a prompt response from each supplier regarding their use of any regulated items.
We expect suppliers to monitor the development of the candidate list for potential inclusions in the REACH regulation. All of these efforts provide our customers with the knowledge that we are striving to provide products that meet quality, technology, service, delivery and sustainability expectations.
In addition, Micron and all our subsidiaries comply with all applicable export and economic sanctions laws and regulations. Compliance with export laws is vital to protecting the safety and security of the countries in which we operate and to ensuring our products, software and technology do not fall into the hands of entities and persons that seek to do harm.