Environment
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Environmental Communication
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- Issuing Environmental Reports
- Providing Environmental Information on Products
Type-Ⅰ Environmental Labels
International Energy Star Program
Eco Leaf Environmental Label - Participating in Shows and Exhibits
Issuing Environmental Reports
Providing environmental information in reports and online
Printed CSR Report and online environmental report are prepared to provide information on the environmental activities of the entire Konica Minolta Group. Environmental information concerning individual Konica Minolta sites in Japan is presented in reports issued by each site.
The reports are updated once a year, and PDF-file versions are available for download from the Group's environmental website.
Providing Environmental Information on Products
Actively supplying information concerning products using environmental labels
Type-Ⅰ Environmental Labels
Konica Minolta is actively promoting the acquisition of Type-Ⅰ environmental certification labels. These labels indicate that a third-party institution has certified the low environmental impact of a product.
Blue Angel Mark
Launched in Germany in 1978 as the world's first environmental labeling system, the Blue Angel Mark is granted to certify products and services that have a smaller environmental impact. Since receiving the world's first Blue Angel certification in the field of copiers in January 1992, Konica Minolta has continued to receive certification for new products by clearing the certification bar each time it has been raised.
Eco Mark
The Eco Mark was established by the Japan Environment Association in 1989 as a standard environmental labeling system in Japan. Konica Minolta's basic policy is to obtain Eco Mark certification for all its business information products.
EcoLogo
Established by the Canadian government in 1988, EcoLogo is North America's most widely respected environmental standard and certification system. In 2009, Konica Minolta obtained EcoLogo certification, ahead of the competition, for 12 of its MFPs in the newly established Office Machines category.
International Energy Star Program
Products that meet certain standards can be registered as Energy Star devices as part of an energy-saving program for OA equipment. Implemented in 1995 through an agreement between the Japanese and US governments, the international program has now expanded with the participation of the EU, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, and other countries.
All of Konica Minolta's business information products meet the Energy Star standards.
Eco Leaf Environmental Label
Type-III environmental labeling provides information on the environmental impact of a product, based on quantitative measurement of environmental impact through the product's entire life cycle, from raw material procurement to production, sales, usage, disposal, and recycling.
Konica Minolta discloses environmental impact data concerning its business information products through the Eco Leaf system of Type-III environmental labeling.
Eco Leaf offers a system certification tool whereby a third-party institution certifies that a company has mechanisms for the proper and effective gathering of environmental impact data. Konica Minolta has obtained this certification for its copier and printer businesses.
Participating in Shows and Exhibits
Introducing environmental technologies and products
Since fiscal 1999, Konica Minolta has been participating in the largest environmental exhibit in Japan, the Eco-Products exhibition, which is held at Tokyo Big Sight every year.
At Eco-Products 2008, which was held in December of the same year, Konica Minolta exhibited its color MFPs, printers, and other products with environmental features. The Group also offered a service where visitors could print out paper craft patterns of endangered animals available on its website, and projected a video program on global environmental protection with its mobile digital planetarium—all of which helped raise awareness of Konica Minolta's environmental initiatives.
The Group also set up a permanent booth at the Osaka ATC Green Eco Plaza in Osaka. This facility is designed to promote ecologically sound businesses through the display of environmental technologies and products. At the booth, Konica Minolta provides visitors with easy-to-understand information on the energy-saving technology of its MFPs, and on the Group's environmental initiatives.
- An exhibition booth at Eco-Products 2008
- A permanent booth at Osaka ATC Green Eco Plaza
