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Introduces the Ricoh Group's Environmental Activities and Socisty's Recognition.

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 Activities

December 1999
Ricoh Hadano achieves a 100% resource recovery rate (level 2 zero waste), the fifth base in the Ricoh Group to do so.
December 1999
Ricoh Optical Industries acquires ISO 14001 certification along with 23 production bases of the Ricoh Group.
December 1999
Ricoh employees and their families participate in the Caring for Mr. Seki's Forest activity in Chiba Prefecture.
December 1999
Holds the 1st Company Meeting for Environmental Volunteer Leaders.
December 1999
Ricoh enters one of its machines in Eco-Products 1999, Japan's first comprehensive exhibition for environment-friendly products.
November 1999
Ricoh Unitechno achieves a 100% resource recovery rate (level 2 zero waste).
November 1999
Ricoh Numazu constructs a cogeneration system.
October 1999
Ricoh Electronics, Inc. (USA) is chosen by California State as the WRAP Winner in the environmental area.
October 1999
Ricoh discloses information on the environmental impact of the imagio MF 6550 through Type III Environmental Labels.
October 1999
Northern Kansai and Southern Kansai recycling centers.
October 1999
Works with environmental volunteer leaders to create the Okutama: Colored Maple Leaves and Cleanup project.
October 1999
Ricoh Fukui cultivates and releases killifish into the park pond with the help of neighboring elementary school students.
October 1999
Holds the 2nd Ricoh Nature Seminar.
September 1999
Ricoh Gotemba achieves a 100% resource recovery rate (level 2 zero waste).
September 1999
Ricoh Ikeda participates in an environmental get-together for community residents and explains its corporate approaches to environmental conservation.
September 1999
Ricoh contributes all prize money won at the Global Environmental Awards to an NGO in Bangladesh.
September 1999
Ricoh Ikeda switches to boilers that use city gas to reduce CO2 emissions.
September 1999
Works with environmental volunteer leaders to create a project in which volunteers can enjoy making sandcastles and help clean up a beach.
September 1999
Issues the Ricoh Group Environmental Report 1999.
September 1999
Ricoh announces environmental accounting.
September 1999
Holds the 4th Global Warming Prevention Business Workshop, organized by WWF Japan, at Ricoh Aoyama Head Office.
August 1999
Hasama Ricoh obtains ISO14001 certification.
August 1999
Ricoh Aoyama Head Office is listed in the Eco-Improvement Office Tokyo Declaration (Type I).
July 1999
The Ricoh Group holds the Environmental Management System Screening Standards Seminar pursuant to green procurement guidelines.
July 1999
Ricoh Electronics (United States) establishes an environmental project group.
July 1999
Ricoh completes training of internal environmental auditors at 11 nonproduction sites.
June 1999
Ricoh Group holds the American environmental meeting.
June 1999
Holds the 1st Ricoh Nature Seminar.
June 1999
Ricoh introduces its environmental volunteer leader training program.
June 1999
The Ricoh Group hosts the America Environmental Convention.
June 1999
Implements recyclable design level 4.
May 1999
Ricoh starts training of internal environmental auditors at 11 nonproduction sites.
May 1999
Green Cycle Systems, Northern Kanto Recycling Center.
April 1999
Constructs Kyushu Recycle Tech, the new Kyushu Recycling Center.
February 1999
Ricoh Numazu achieves a 100% resource recovery rate (zero waste).
January 1999
Holds the Fifth Ricoh Company Environment Competition.
January 1999
Issues the Ricoh Group Environment Report 1998.

 Society's Recognition

December 1999
Evaluated as number one in the Third Corporate Environmental Management Level Survey by the Nippon Keizai Shimbun newspaper for the second consecutive year.
November 1999
Ricoh is first in the world to receive international recognition for energy-saving technology.
November 1999
The Ricoh Group Environmental Report 1999 wins the Environmental Report Award for Superior Reports.
November 1999
Ricoh wins the IEA's Demand-Side Management Award of Excellence in the recently created Copier of the Future Division.
October 1999
Ricoh Numazu receives the 1999 Most Technologically Advanced Office Award.
October 1999
Taiwan Ricoh wins the 1999 Superior Plant in Equipment Operations Award for the Promotion of Pollution Prevention by the Taiwanese government.
October 1999
Ricoh Numazu receives the Japan Recycling Promotion Council Chairman Award.
October 1999
The spirio 5000RM copier receives the Fiscal 1999 G Mark for its ecological design.
October 1999
Ricoh Italy receives the Ecohitech Award (an environmental conservation award).
September 1999
Ricoh Atsugi receives type 5 certification for its accident-free operations.
September 1999
Ricoh Electronics declared WRAP Winner by the California state government.
August 1999
Ricoh Fukui recognized for its contributions to the promotion of recycling by the Fukui Prefectural Governor for fiscal 1999.
July 1999
Ricoh Hatano recognized by Kanagawa Prefecture as a superior plant in terms of its self-regulation activities in the area of pollution prevention.
June 1999
Ricoh is awarded grand prize at the Green Procurement Awards organized by the Green Procurement Networks.
May 1999
Receives the Minister of International Trade and Industry Prize at the Eighth Global Environmental Awards held by the Japan Industrial Journal.
May 1999
Receives the Environmental Protection Prize in the Ninth Corporate Contribution to the Society Survey held by the Asahi Shimbun Cultural Foundation.
May 1999
Ricoh Fukui receives the Fukui Environmental Activity Promotion Council's Chairman Prize for environmental conservation promotion activities.
April 1999
Ricoh Corporation receives the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Award for the fourth consecutive year on April 14.
April 1999
The Ricoh Group Environmental Report 1998 receives the top Environmental Report Award.
April 1999
Ricoh Corporation receives the Energy Star award.

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