dstelecom, in partnership with SERNIS – a Portuguese company dedicated to developing road safety solutions through innovation – has just announced the launch of the SR-ECO-BALI, an environmentally revolutionary traffic marker at a global level, built from waste fibre optic cables.
With this traffic marker, which is the result of the Green dstelecom project – research, development and validation of new solutions for reusing or recycling fibre optic cables – dstelecom wants to add an environmentally responsible solution to the market, which also reduces waste generated by the operation of companies in the telecommunications sector.
dstelecom adds that last year it generated 39 tons of waste of fibre optic cables which, in this way, can be reused as raw material for SR-ECO-BALI and reduce the use of the original raw material by around 42% of these beacons.
The first results of the project have already been recognized by the prestigious Intertraffic Awards 2024, which nominated Green dstelecom in the Green Globe Award category, having been highlighted as a revolutionary solution in the field of sustainability and innovation.
“Green dstelecom is the result of our commitment to promoting sustainability and the circular economy throughout our operation and SR-ECO-BALI is just the beginning. We want to explore new applications for waste fibre optic cables and create more innovative solutions that can be used across the entire market”, promises João Faria, head of innovation at dstelecom.
Based on the same principle, dstelecom promoted collaboration with the Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo, where Product Design students will, from this year onwards, study other application possibilities for optical fibre waste, thus expanding the impact of the Green dstelecom project.
“Collaboration, co-creation and innovation are catalysts for success for the Portuguese economy and above all with environmental impact. Teamwork, bold thinking, and resilience are key factors that allow us to convert problems into value-added and environmentally responsible solutions. More than 15% of our workforce is involved in innovation projects and we want to continue to promote progress and sustainability, leading the way towards a more sustainable and efficient telecommunications sector”, reinforces the same person in charge.
Green dstelecom joins POP Geothermia, another of the company’s projects that aims to significantly reduce energy consumption in telecommunications centres, through a passive air conditioning solution based on a geothermal borehole, but without the need for a heat pump.
According to João Faria, this solution is currently undergoing testing in a central part of the dstelecom network, and it is estimated that it will reduce around 80% of the energy spent on cooling telecommunications centres, which are spread across the north to south of the country, through the municipalities where the company operates.
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