Aiming to reduce the impact on the global environment and enhance end-user comfort and safety levels, the Ricoh Group is tackling important issues by establishing a strict management system for environmentally-sensitive substances contained in its products, reducing ozone, dust, and volatile organic compounds (VOCs)* emitted when products are used, and ensuring that its supplies are safe.
Environmentally-sensitive substances contained in products will affect the environment when the products come to the end of their lifecycle and are improperly disposed of.
An ecobalance assessment shows that reducing the use of these substances will ultimately lessen the environmental impact a product has during its lifecycle and reduce recycling costs to a great extent.
The Ricoh Group is making efforts to reduce environmentally-sensitive substances and create a reliable management system that covers the entire manufacturing flow, including suppliers.
* VOC stands for volatile organic compound. TVOC stands for total VOC.
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Create and enforce a system of managing chemical substances contained in Ricoh Group products (in fiscal 2005). |
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Observe Ricoh standards that cover environmentally-sensitive substances emitted by products. (Observe Ricoh standards that cover such substances as ozone, dust, and VOC.) |
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In July 2006, Ricoh completed the establishment of a management system for environmentally-sensitive substances contained in its products at our sites outside of Japan. Ricoh also conducted an internal audit and selected important issues to raise the level of the management system, and has been making efforts to improve it. Concerning emissions of environmentally-sensitive substances generated by products, Ricoh was quick to satisfy the Blue Angel requirements that came into force in January 2007, and a range of products, including copiers, multifunctional copiers, printers, and 10 model series, launched in fiscal 2006 have attained Ricoh standards for ozone, dust, and VOC (see Table (1)).
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In anticipation of tighter laws and regulations in the future, we will upgrade our chemical substance management system that encompasses the entire supply chain of the Ricoh Group. We will also continue our efforts to further reduce environmentally-sensitive substances in products and will maintain Ricoh standards for all future products.
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Data
Learn more about the data of Pollution Prevention.
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