OPPO's 2025 sustainability report shows progress on emissions and accessibility

OPPO cut emissions, expanded ColorOS accessibility, and grew education and cultural partnerships in 2025.

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Greener operations, wider digital inclusion

OPPO's newly published 2025 Sustainability Report shows the company folding environmental and social goals more deeply into how it runs its business, now spanning operations in over 90 countries.

On the environmental side, OPPO says it ran full life-cycle assessments on 23 phone models this year, tracking everything from raw materials to disposal in order to shape greener product designs going forward.

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Packaging is another area getting attention. Recycled wastepaper now makes up roughly 43 percent of the materials used across all OPPO product packaging, and in Europe, the brand has started swapping in paper-plastic blends made from plant fiber and waste paper for about 14 percent of its packaging there.

The company also reported a third straight year of shrinking emissions from its own operations, down 1.22 percent in 2025. Looking beyond its own footprint, OPPO tallied emissions across eleven categories of its broader supply chain (Scope 3) and found a 2.57 percent decline year-over-year. Renewable power usage at its factories, meanwhile, jumped nearly 70 percent.

On the product side, OPPO points to its patent holdings—now at 118,000 filed and 66,000 granted—as evidence of ongoing investment in what it calls "virtuous innovation." A chunk of that work has gone toward accessibility: more than 30 ColorOS apps were updated this year with features like screen-reading, magnification, and speech-to-text tools aimed at users with visual, hearing, or motor impairments.

The company is also pushing further into health tech. Its new Fitness Health Laboratory in Binhaiwan—now OPPO's largest health research facility—is studying areas like cardiovascular fitness, sleep, and weight management, with the goal of eventually building those findings into consumer-facing features.

Community initiatives rounded out the report. OPPO renewed its "Culture in a Shot" project with Discovery Channel for a second year, highlighting festival traditions across 15 countries through mobile photography.

It also expanded a UNESCO partnership, donating 1,000 tablets to students in five countries across Asia and Africa — including classrooms in Thailand using the devices to teach coding. Separately, its long-running UEFA partnership funded several sports-development programs across Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America this year.