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Sustainable Management
Environmental Conservation


The Ricoh Group engages in markedly diverse activities to efficiently reduce environmental impact in all of its business activities. They include research and development of products, procurement of materials and parts, production, marketing, logistics, use, maintenance, and recycling. Examples are shown according to the flow of the business activities.



Research & Development
Introduces the approaches for development of environmental technologies to make more profit.

Procurement
Improves the quality of the supplier is a requisite for the promotion of green procurement activities. Explains the current state of the Ricoh Group's green procurement activities.

Production (Preventing Global Warming)
Introduces the Group's approaches and activities to prevent global warming by reducing total greenhouse gas emissions.

Production (Pollution Prevention)
Introduces the Group's approaches and activities to identify and reduce the use and emissions of chemical substances.

Production (Zero-Waste-to-Landfill)
Introduces the activity to achieve zero waste to landfill at all production sites around the world.

Marketing
The Ricoh Group enhances green marketing and promotes the marketing of products with less environmental impact. Introduces the Group's approaches and examples of marketing all over the world.

Logistics
Gives examples of environmental impact reduction in transportation.

After-Sales Service
Introduces activities to reduce environmental impact in after-sales service, including recycling of the exchanged parts.

Use
Gives examples of the efficient reduction in environmental impact when customers use Ricoh products, by incorporating energy-saving technology and other means.

Recycling
Explains the global recycling network and product recycling aimed at securing profitability of the recycling business.

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