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Best Buy's Commitment to the Environment

Powering a more sustainable planet, together.

Our mission

We all have a role to play in preserving our planet. Across Best Buy in Canada and the US, we are committed to our role of being an environmentally responsible organization.

As a company, Best Buy is dedicated to adapting and evolving our business to reduce carbon emissions and waste.



Our goals

Reduce carbon emissions in our operations by 75%.

We plan to decrease carbon emissions in our operations by 75% (over our 2009 baseline) to reach our goal of being carbon neutral by 2040. Part of this goal will be achieved by increasing overall efficiencies across the organization, such as converting all our store lighting to LED, adopting routing logic to reduce fuel consumption across our Geek Squad fleet and delivery service, and operating an energy management system at our Canadian headquarters.

Reduce carbon emissions for our customers by 20%.

We plan to lower carbon emissions for our customers by 20% (over our 2017 baseline) by 2030, saving $5 billion in energy costs. The key to achieving this goal is through empowering customers with knowledge, and offering products and services that will help them make environmentally impactful decisions. 

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Working together towards a circular economy

We've designed programs and services to help our customers join us in taking part in a circular economy: a system where nothing is wasted, following the principles of reuse, reduce, and recycle.

Discover how each program and service helps you keep products in use for as long as possible, get the most value from products while you're using them, and how we recover and recycle products and materials at the end of their lifecycle.

Refurbished products.

All refurbished products have been tested and restored to 100% functionality, which effectively minimizes e-waste by giving existing devices a longer useable lifecycle. Best Buy offers more than a hundred thousand Refurbished products, providing customers a more affordable option to buying tech while also decreasing our collective carbon footprint.

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Monthly Subscription: A lighter way to upgrade your tech.

Our Monthly Subscription program merges the desire to upgrade with the need to lessen our carbon footprint. With this program, you can choose a premium laptop and after 2 years you get to decide if you want to keep it or trade it in for a new one, at which point we’ll refurbish or recycle your old laptop.

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Best Buy Protection.

Keep your tech devices and appliances working like new for longer with Best Buy Protection. Our Protection Plans go beyond manufacturer warranties, providing physical damage coverage, repairs, and much more so you can reduce the need to replace the products you already have.

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Trade-in program.

Trading in your old device allows us to put the device into the reuse or recycling cycle, which contributes to the responsible handling of old electronics and ensure minimal waste. If you have a working device that you no longer need, simply bring it in to one of our stores to see if you can trade it in for a gift card that can be used towards your next purchase.

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Battery and electronics recycling.

We want to make it easy for all of our customers to recycle responsibly, and limit the toxic pollution and e-waste in landfills. Our recycling program is available at all Best Buy stores across Canada so that everyone can recycle batteries and a list of select electronics, even if you didn't buy them from us.

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Green Team.

We believe it takes all areas of the company, making thoughtful decisions every day, to reach our goals. For that reason, we’ve created a group of people with different experience and from all departments at Best Buy Canada to build and implement our sustainability plans. Our Green Team drives the work we’re doing and raises awareness of our environmental efforts with team members, customers, and vendors.

Awards and recognition

From our recycling program to our carbon reduction commitments, our work to address climate change has contributed to us being recognized as a leader in environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance.