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Using the Comet Circle Concept to Help the Ricoh Group Build a Society that Recirculates Resources.
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The basic concept of the Comet Circle is specified in five aspects, as follows.
Ideas for environmental, social, and economic activities that we should tackle are addressed here.
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The sustainable society of the future needs to produce maximum output with minimum resources and energy. It needs to restrict the environmental impact of all economic and social activities so that the natural environment can recover on its own. The Comet Circle represents a resource-recirculating society and points out activities and partnerships that the Ricoh Group must deal with.
The Ricoh Group not only promotes its sustainable management, but also enthusiastically encourages suppliers, customers, and recycling companies to set up their own sustainable management. Moreover, the Group strives to make the resource recirculation of the Comet Circle smaller at all stages (entities represented by spheres) by improving economic efficiency and reducing environmental impact. This would reduce the total amount of environmental impact produced by economic and social activities.
The Comet Circle is a graphic representation of environmental conservation. In today's world, both the product and the manufacturing process of that product determine corporate value and what people purchase. Our philosophy goes beyond environmental conservation concepts and ensures the credibility of our products, none of which are produced under poor conditions or with child labor or by any other reprehensible means. Such profiteering is both unfair and incompatible with the philosophy of Ricoh Group.
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- Determine and Reduce Environmental Impact at All Stages
- Priority on Inner Loop Recycling
- Promoting a Multitiered Recycling System
- More Economically Rational Recycling
- Partnerships at Every Stage
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