Sustainable Environmental Management of the Ricoh Group From Passive
Stage to Proactive Stage and Responsible Stage
To continue its efforts to reduce environmental impact from a long-term perspective, the Ricoh Group needs to continue business and grow as a company by promoting sustainable environmental management that generates economic values through environmental activities.
In its past environmental conservation efforts, there were three stages.
The Ricoh Group first went through a Passive Stage, and then a Proactive Stage, and now it is in the Responsible Stage of sustainable environmental management.
In the Passive Stage, the Ricoh Group coped with social pressures by dealing with laws and regulations and competing with other companies. In the Proactive Stage, however, it began to take voluntary actions to reduce the environmental impact of its business activities and products with a sense of mission as a global citizen.
In the current Responsible Stage, the Ricoh Group aims to achieve continuous environmental conservation by pursuing economic values while aggressively reducing the environmental impact of its business activities.
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Working towards the ideal society
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To move closer to the ideal society, the Ricoh Group has improved the level of sustainable environmental management by developing environmental technologies and encouraging all employees to participate in environmental activities. Each employee in the Group is encouraged to have a strong environmental awareness and set higher goals voluntarily. The Ricoh Group will continue to work to realize the ideal society it is pursuing by aggressively developing environmental technologies, encouraging all employees to participate in environmental activities, and providing customers around the world with products and services with less environmental impact.
Three Steps in Environmental Conservation Activities (From Passive Stage to Proactive Stage and Responsible Stage)
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