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AERA, January 21, 2002 and News Week, January 23, 2002 |
Ricoh is also involved in volunteer activities to pick up waste on the seashore. |
In nearby regions and various countries of the world, Ricoh is conducting various environmental conservation activities every day. And through steadily developing such activities and upgrading them to a higher quality level and further to sustainable activities, "environmental business management", where environmental conservation activity and business management are combined at a high level, should be realized.
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For instance, we have "beach cleanup" promoted together with regional people. |
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Beach cleanup in kanagawa "kamakura"
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Ricoh's "environmental volunteer leaders" fostered in-house are striving for environmental conservation activities voluntarily in the region. For instance, in the "beach cleanup", Ricoh's volunteer leader stand in the center, get together with families and friends and entertain themselves with events like sand-craft making to clean the seashore. The sand-craft could not be well done if the sand is mixed with small waste and will automatically raise environmental concern and make them realize its importance. To support such volunteer activities is considered as one of the important roles of environmental conservation activities.
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Ricoh is also involved in volunteer activities to have "Zero Waste" in factories. |
| For instance, we have "Zero Waste Activity" developed to factories. |
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Staff assigned to tha Zero-Waste-to-Landfill and mascot, Zero Hero in america
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Ricoh is promoting higher level zero waste activities to make zero not only industrial waste but also life waste such as canteen remains. Zero waste is accomplished already in all domestic factories. Further, American, Mexican, French and English factories have accomplished zero waste. Factories made various devices to promote activities with all employees' participation, such as making mascots and holding waste separation contests.
Waste separation contests at American factory
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Through zero waste activities, Ricoh has not only accomplished environmental impact reduction, but has also realized cost reduction by effective use of resources and productivity improvement. At the same time of accomplishing improvement of each employee's awareness, we are expanding activity know-how to partner companies.
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| As introduced above, Ricoh is promoting environmental conservation activities in a wide scale in the region and in its global business development. And also for the future, high quality "environmental business management" that enables continuation of each activity will be practiced. |
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| Ricoh aims at higher quality environmental business management. |
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