The Ricoh Group believes that the Group should make positive efforts for reducing not only the environmental impact caused by its business activities but also, in cooperation with our customers, the impact generated when our products are used by our customers. Based upon this concept,
the Group has upgraded and expanded functions to control energy consumption and the volume of paper used and striven to upgrade the environmental efficiency of our products.
We, however, believe it essential that these features are fully utilized so that environmental impact reduction efficiency can be raised even further. Accordingly, we are promoting activities to propose ideas while visualizing the environmental impact caused by use of our products.
Such proposals are not limited to those related to the use of Ricoh products. We also introduce and propose various efforts for reducing environmental impact as carried out in Ricoh's offices.
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 - Understand how far energy-saving features and double-sided printing are used and improve usage rates.
Ricoh Technosystems Co., Ltd. (RTS) positively proposed ideas for raising use rates of energy-saving modes at our customers' sites. Additionally, in Japan,
we carried out activities to propose ideas for reducing environmental impact through the visualization of environmental impact, calculating environmental impact (CO2 emissions) caused by respective customers when our products were used,
and using infrastructure such as @Remote. A companywide PG was organized for the visualization of environmental impact, as a tool with calculation logic which can be applied both inside and outside Japan.
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We will make efforts for raising the use rates of energy-saving and double-sided printing functions by customers outside Japan,
while improving calculation accuracy of environmental impact in cooperation with product development sections.
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