The Ricoh Group disclosed its environmental accounting for the first time in 1999. Subsequently, the Group has introduced corporate environmental accounting to determine the status of sustainable environmental management and disclose related information, as well as segment environmental accounting etc., that are used to prepare environmental action plans, select measures, and verify achievements. Thus efforts are being made to establish environmental accounting as a tool for sustainable environmental management.
Corporate environmental accounting
The Ricoh Group calculates and announces the cost spent in its business activities for environmental conservation, as well as their conservation and economic effects, as quantitatively as possible. The Ricoh Group prepares such data in compliance with the Environmental Accounting Guidelines 2005—set by the Japanese Ministry of the Environment—by taking the necessary portion from the Eco Balance data and calculating the cost and effect (in quantity and monetary value) of its environmental conservation activities based on its own formulas and indicators. In fiscal 2007, the Group started disclosing its environmental impact from a product lifecycle perspective, in addition to direct environmental impact (i.e., environmental impact generated at business sites).
Segment environmental accounting
This is an environmental accounting tool to forecast the costs and environmental conservation/economic effects of individual investment activities and projects for environmental conservation from among all processes of operations and to evaluate their results, in order to judge the effectiveness of respective measures.
Sustainable environmental management indicators of the entire product lifecycle (fiscal 2008)
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| Sustainable environmental management indicators of the entire product lifecycle (fiscal 2008) |
Results in fiscal 2008 |
Calculation formula |
| REP: Ratio of Eco Profit |
2.08 |
Total economic benefit (35.82) / Total environmental conservation cost (17.26) |
| REE: Ratio of Eco Effect |
1.33 |
[Total economic benefit (35.82) + Social cost reduction values (-15.37 + 2.60)] / Total environmental conservation cost (17.26) |
| Eco Index |
44.1 |
Gross profit on sales (854.3) / Total environmental impact (1,938,032.5) × 105 |
| RPS: Ratio of Profit to Social Cost |
2.8 |
Gross profit on sales (854.3) / Total social cost (300.86) |
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* Unit: Billions of yen.
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- Environmental accounting data: Base units for raw materials production and fuel consumption were revised in fiscal 2008 to reflect the start of the new Environmental Action Plan. Evaluation was made using methods based on newly acknowledged information. The numerical figures in the graphs on the previous page were corrected to reflect these changes.
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Segment environmental accounting of product energy conservation (Benefit on cost in color QSU product development)
| Costs |
Effects |
| Economic benefits |
Effect on environmental conservation |
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Main costs |
Costs |
Internal benefits |
Customer benefits |
| R&D cost |
Cost of developing energy-saving units, parts, etc. |
¥583.3 millon |
Sales contribution ¥1,155.3 million |
Reduction in payment for consumed power supply
¥422.5 million |
Reduction in CO2 emissions
6,943.4 tons |
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- The reduction in payment for consumed power supply and CO2 emissions is the annual benefit brought from 8 hours of operation per day, 20 days a month. Internal benefits refer to benefits on gross profits in sales results in fiscal 2008.
Segment environmental accounting of the product recycling business (Japan)
| Costs |
Effects |
| Economic benefits |
Effect on environmental conservation |
| Items |
Costs |
Items |
Benefits |
| Product recycling cost |
¥632 million |
Sales
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| Social effect |
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| ¥12,999 million |
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| ¥2,115 million |
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Amount of resource recovery: 26,440 (t)
Down 2,229 (t) from that in the previous year |
Amount of final disposal: 117 (t) |
| Collection/resource recovery cost |
¥2,197 million |
| Total cost |
¥2,829 million |
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- Social effect refers to the cost of waste disposal that customers no longer have to pay.
Segment environmental accounting of energy conservation activities at business sites (Japan)
| Costs |
Effects |
| Economic benefits |
Effect on environmental conservation |
| Item |
Main cost |
Costs |
Item |
Benefits |
Reduction item |
Amount |
| Business area cost |
Cost of global warming prevention |
¥273.7 million |
Reduction in lighting and heating expenses |
¥1,424.6 million |
CO2 emissions
(Reduction amount) |
48,956.0 (t) |
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- The amount of reduction in CO2 emissions is the total of reductions realized through measures taken by respective sites to prevent global warming (including the effects of reduction measures taken in the past).
Segment environmental accounting of recycling activities at business sites (The Entire Ricoh Group)
| Costs |
Effects |
| Economic benefits |
Effect on environment conservation |
| Item |
Main cost |
Costs |
Items |
Benefits |
Reduction item |
Amount |
| Business area cost |
Resource circulation cost |
¥1,460.8 million |
Reduction in discharged matter disposal costs |
-¥70.9 million |
Final amount of discharged matter disposal (reduction amount) |
-159.4 (t) |
| Proceeds from sale of valuables |
¥299.6 million |
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Segment environmental accounting of pollution prevention activities at business sites (The Entire Ricoh Group)
| Costs |
Effects |
| Economic benefits |
Effect on environmental conservation |
| Item |
Main cost |
Costs |
Items |
Benefits |
Items |
Amount |
| Business area cost |
Pollution prevention cost |
¥269.7 million |
Reduction in
social cost |
¥107.1 million |
NOx
SOx
BOD
Environmentally sensitive substances (calculated with the conversion potential) |
-5.3 (t)
0.3 (t)
-2.8 (t)
428.7 (t) |
| Amount of risk avoidance effect (incidental effect) |
¥2,077.2 million |
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Indicators
The Ricoh Group calculates environmental preservation costs and benefits based on calculation formulas and indicators developed by Group companies.
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Environmental accounting before FY 2007
An overview of our environmental accounting from FY 1998 to FY 2007
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