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Vision (The Ricoh Group's Idea of Sustainable Management)
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To continue its efforts in environmental conservation, the Ricoh Group shows the results of its environmental conservation activities while deriving a benefit from such activities.
This is the Group's idea of sustainable management.
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| Importance of Sustainable Management |
The Ricoh Group regards environmental conservation activities as a lifelong approach. To this end, the Group focuses on continuing its activities while striving to limit the environmental impact of its economic activities as a whole so that the natural environment can recover by itself. To survive in the business world and continuously engage in environmental conservation activities, it is essential for companies to make a profit through their business activities. The Ricoh Group strives to be environment-conscious and improve all of its business activities, while establishing an action plan for fiscal 2002 through fiscal 2004. The Ricoh Group is mainly aiming at establishing the world's finest environmental management system by showing the results of its environmental conservation activities while deriving benefit and by improving the quality of Ricoh products and business processes through innovative environmental conservation technologies.
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| Understanding the Group's Environmental Impact |
In limiting the environmental impact of all economic activities so that the natural environment can recover on its own, we need to recognize three significant conditions: 1) the use of resources within the scope that the natural environment can recover by itself, 2) reduction in waste disposal within the scope that the natural environment can recover by itself, and 3) reduction in the amount of greenhouse gases. The Ricoh Group first identifies the environmental impact in the Group's business activities as a whole using Eco Balance. The Group then carries out the most effective method of improving the quality of its products and business sites in major environmental conservation areas, such as resource conservation and recycling, energy conservation, and pollution prevention.
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Identifying the Ricoh Group's Environmental Impact and Areas Covered
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| Mechanism of the Ricoh Group's Environmental Management |
The Ricoh Group, based on the idea of understanding the environmental impact of its business activities as a whole, established its own unique mechanism, shown on the below page, to identify the environmental impact at each process. By doing so, the Group can both reduce environmental impact and make a profit. With this mechanism, the Ricoh Group strives to realize sustainable management and improve such relevant tools as the environmental management information system and environmental accounting, which work as criteria when evaluating the progress and achievements in sustainable management.
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The Ricoh Group's Environmental Management Methods
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