Toshiba Green Initiative
- 1. Eco Manufacturing Eco Friendly Products Conservation Sustainability Corporate Responsibility
- 2. Leading innovation leads to a better world. As a leading manufacturer, Toshiba recognizes that the earth is an irreplaceable asset. Hence, we are constantly researching and implementing new methods to protect the world in which we live and work. As an ecologically responsible partner, we work to find a careful balance between the print needs of businesses today and the preservation of our natural resources. Using the latest eco-innovations, we continue to reduce our environmental footprint through our manufacturing process, and help our customers through the products we build and the programs in which we participate. How we build We have mitigated climate change Shipping crates and pallets are now by reducing CO2 and greenhouse made with 100% recycled cardboard. our products gas emissions. In addition, we’ve Our dedicated efforts to improve the Monozukuri means to make reduced or eliminated the use of environment have not gone unnoticed, or create things in the spirit of restricted substances and minimized and four of our manufacturing facilities excellence: to manufacture products natural resources used for product have earned ISO 14001 certification. that exceed expectations. This manufacturing and packaging. philosophy is the driving force Our use of recycled plastics has behind Toshiba’s eco-innovation increased and we’ve eliminated and our manufacturing process. the use of styrene altogether. In a one year period, if the world’s discarded cartridges were stacked end-to-end, they would circle the earth over three times.
- 3. The products We offer service we’ve implemented Duplex by modules that are Default printing and an Omit Blank we build rebuildable as Page function as well as electronic An electronics company well as developer product manuals rather than those is only as green as the units that are self- made of paper. And while most sleep products it builds. In addition refreshing. We modes consume 5 watts of power or to building products that use state-of-the- more, we now have a Super-Sleep earn industry awards, art processing to Mode that consumes only 1 watt. our products also earn separate materials, recognition by meeting and cartridges are environmental standards. recycled with zero Toshiba produces products waste to landfill. In which are Energy Star addition, a number of rated, and our two top our product features are ISO 14001 Certification product series have received designed to minimize Energy Star Tier Two the latest Energy Star Tier Two their environmental footprint. For RoHS Compliant rating. Because of our minimal use of example, to reduce paper waste WEEE Compliant hazardous substances, we are RoHS compliant, and through the responsible Zero Waste to Landfill collection, treatment, recycling and Default Duplexing recovery of the products we build, Omit Blank Page Toshiba is also WEEE compliant. Super-Sleep Mode All of Toshiba’s printed circuit boards are 100% lead-free and halogen-free, and about half of all our recycled plastic parts are halogen-free. Incinerating 10,000 tons of waste creates one job. Land filling it creates 6 jobs. Recycling it creates 36 jobs. For more info visit www.Copiers.Toshiba.com
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