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(1) Develop environmental technologies aiming to reduce the use of resources. |
- Develop resource-saving technologies to reduce the input of new resources in business and society as a whole.
 - While developing technologies to downsize products and extend their lives, we have been developing technologies to use recycled resources –now approaching 100% reuse and recycling– and to develop and utilize biomass-based materials and other renewable resources.
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| (2) Increase recirculation of resources and use resources effectively to reduce the use of new resources in products. |
1) Promote the reuse of parts.
- Increase the use of reusable parts recovered from used products to 1,910 tons by fiscal 2010 (Japan).
- Weight of parts reused reached 1,876 tons (target not met).
- Increase the use of reusable parts recovered from used products to 6,000 tons by fiscal 2010 (outside Japan).
- Weight of parts reused reached 7,672 tons (target achieved).
2) Promote PCMR (plastic closed material recycling) (Japan).
- Achieve the fiscal 2010 target for the quantity of recycled plastic used. Fiscal 2010 target: 750 tons.
- Amount of recycled plastic used reached 1,192 tons (target achieved).
3) Increase the amount of resources recirculated from used products (outside Japan).
- Increase the amount of resources recirculated from used products (the amount reused + the amount recycled) to 16,000 tons by fiscal 2010.
- Amount of resources recirculated reached 28,161 tons (target achieved).
4) Use biomass resins for products.
- Commercialize biomass toners.
- We released the imagio MP 6001GP, a multifunctional digital copier using biomass toner, onto the market in November 2009 (target achieved).
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| (3) Reduce waste generated by production activities. |
1) Reduce waste of resources in the thermal media business.
- Reduce the amount of waste generated by 10%, compared to fiscal 2006 figures.
- Waste generation increased by 8.6%, attributed to increased production and other causes (target not met).
2) Reduce waste of resources relating to packaging materials.
- Reduce packaging material waste per production volume in the manufacturing of imaging products in Japan by 30% compared to fiscal 2006 figures.
- Ricoh Gotemba Plant: Reduced by 31.3% (target achieved). Tohoku Ricoh Co., Ltd.: Reduced by 18.4% (target not met). Ricoh Elemex: Reduced by 2.1% (target not met).
- Reduce packaging material waste per production volume in the manufacturing of imaging products outside Japan by 30% compared to fiscal 2007 figures.
- REI: Reduced by 23.1% (target not met). RIF: Reduced by 14.1% (target not met). RPL: Increased by 20.3% (target not met).
3) Reduce waste generated in the manufacturing of polymerized toners.
- Reduce waste generated per production volume by 17%, compared to fiscal 2007 figures.
- Reduced by19.5% (target achieved).
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(1) Develop environmental technologies for energy conservation. |
- Develop technologies to increase the energy efficiency of products and production processes that contribute to the reduction of CO2 emissions from business and society as a whole.
- We are developing technologies to make our products more user-friendly and more energy-efficient as well as a production process technology to maximize energy use efficiency.
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| (2) Improve the energy-saving performance of products. |
1) Achieve Ricoh's energy-saving targets.
- Our copiers, multifunctional copiers, and printers all meet energy-saving goals (target achieved).
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| (3) Reduce greenhouse gas emissions in production activities. |
- Reduce CO2 emissions by 12% by fiscal 2010 (Ricoh and manufacturing subsidiaries in Japan) compared to fiscal 1990 figures.
- Emissions attributed to the businesses that already existed in the base year (fiscal 1990) were reduced by 14.1%, meaning the achievement of the target. However, total emissions including those attributed to new businesses started after fiscal 1990 were reduced by 9.6%, falling short of the goal. Therefore, Certified Emission Reductions (CERs) worth 4,279 tons were transferred to Japan's national account (target achieved).
- Reduce CO2 emissions by 10% by fiscal 2010 (manufacturing subsidiaries outside of Japan) compared to fiscal 1998 figures.
- Increased by 20.3%, mainly due to the remarkable growth of the thermal media business and the shift of the production base to China (target not met).
- Reduce emissions of greenhouse gases other than CO2 by 10% by fiscal 2010 (semiconductor business sector) compared to fiscal 1995 figures.
- Emissions of GHGs other than CO2 were reduced by 45.3 % (target achieved). In addition to the introduction of equipment to decontaminate PCF and other gases, efforts to reduce usage itself contributed to the successful result.
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| (4) Reduce greenhouse gas emissions in non-production activities. |
- Reduce CO2 emissions to a level that is below fiscal 2006 figures (Ricoh and non-manufacturing subsidiaries in Japan).
- Total CO2 emissions by non-manufacturing subsidiaries in Japan decreased by 10.3% (target achieved).
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| (5) Reduce CO2 emissions in logistics. |
- Improve by 1% or more by the basic quantity unit (compared to the previous fiscal year's figures).
- For the three years under review, average CO2 emissions per ton-kilometer were reduced by 1.9% (target achieved).
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| (6) Expand CO2 emission reduction efforts to involve suppliers. |
- We collected examples of our ongoing CO2 reduction activities jointly conducted with model suppliers since fiscal 2009, as well as examples of CO2 reduction activities at other suppliers.
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| (7) Contribute to the reduction of environmental impact at customers' sites. |
1) Survey the frequencies of energy-saving and duplex copying functions used and raise their rates of use.
- We made proposals to customers to encourage them to use the energy-saving mode. In fiscal 2011, we will continue this as part of our proposal to help customers reduce their environmental impact both inside and outside Japan.
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