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The Ricoh Group's Activities 1999

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

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

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