Green Procurement Policy (PDF) - Ricoh

Ricoh Group’s Environmental General Plan and Green Partnership
■Environmental General Plan
Basic Policy
Ricoh Group not only recognizes the environmental conservation as a mission for us, global citizens, to
fulfill, but also considers that the sustainable environmental activity is on the same axis where the
business management activity is. Ricoh Group willingly takes responsibilities, then engages ourselves in
the activities among the entire group companies as well.
Action Guidelines
1. Establish the goal of the environmental impact reduction, with consideration what the social
expectation is, under own risk, by complying legal regulation in both domestic and overseas, and
then pursue the creation of economical value through the realization.
2. Endeavor to urge the innovation that realizes the environmental impact reduction, and utilize the
technology dynamically.
3. Recognize the influence to environment under all business activities, and continuously improve
pollution prevention and the energy/ resources utilization by participation of all members.
4. Attempt to reduce the environment impact through all the stages covering procurement,
production, sales, distribution, usage, recycling and disposal during the offering of products and
services.
5. Each member needs to pay wide attention to society, to plan the improvement of consciousness
through positive learning, and to pursue the environmental conservation activity with taking full
responsibility.
6. Establish the strong collaboration with society in any countries and regions, and contribute to our
society widely by spontaneous information disclosure and participation in planning/supporting
environmental conservation activities
■Green Partnership
To promote effective environmental conservation, it is important to make an effort in reducing the
environmental impacts caused by "overall operations" through partnerships with suppliers and
customers. For this purpose, it is necessary to establish, maintain, and improve partnerships that are
beneficial to all parties. To contribute to the creation of a sustainable recycle-oriented society, we regard
all parties involved in the operations of the Ricoh Group as green partners, and we, together with these
green partners, are promoting effective environmental conservation.
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