Ricoh first published Green Procurement Guidelines in 1998 and updated them in 2002 as the Green Procurement Standard to minimize the environmental impact of raw materials, parts, and products. The standard focused on pollution prevention, resource conservation and recycling, and energy conservation. It required suppliers to establish environmental management systems. Ricoh works with suppliers and customers to produce sustainable, low-impact products throughout the manufacturing process and comply with EU environmental legislation and regulations on banned substances, chemicals, and hazardous materials in electronic products.

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In May 1998 Ricoh Group published it’s first
“Green Procurement Guidelines” and
requested suppliers to establish Environmental
Management Systems. In 2002 this was
updated to the new “Green Procurement
Standard”. The purpose of this was to procure
raw materials/parts/ products with minimal
environmental impact. The standard had three
core themes:
1. Pollution Prevention
2. Resource Conservation/ Recycling
3. Energy Conservation/ Ana Thermal
Prevention.
Promotion of
social
contribution on
environmental
conservation
Recycling
companies
Efficient
use of
resources
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environmental
impact cause
by
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Development of
environmentally
conscious
products
Promotion of
environmental
conservation
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purchase of
environmentally
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Sales of
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conscious
products
and
services
Customers
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2. RICOH’S GREEN
PROCURE
STANDARDS
OUR SUPPLIERS OBLIGATIONS
Ricoh group not only recognises
environmental conservation as a mission for
all global citizens to fulfil but as a core
underlying activity that is linked to every part
of business.
Banned Substances
A key element of the Green Procurement
Standard is to ensure the exclusion of the 18
banned substances in Ricoh Products. These
include, asbestos, DBT, Ozone depleting
products and 6 substances banned by RoHS
EU Directive.
Not only do Ricoh comply with the EU
legislation and laws surrounding
Environmental practices but they set goals far
exceeding those expected of them, become
almost role-models for other business who
aim to achieve such results. Each business
activity is analysed in terms of environmental
impact and improvement on previous
methods is ongoing to ensure these targets are
met and even surpassed.
Ricoh prides themselves on becoming pillars
of the local society; they encourage each
employee to become environmentally aware
and responsible, as well as supporting local
conservation projects and schools.
It is vital that as a manufacturing organisation,
the efforts to reduce environmental impacts
are present throughout the process. For this
reason Ricoh work with suppliers and
customers as well as their own factories in
order to produce fully sustainable and low
impact products.
As a result of EU legislation as well as Ricoh’s
own high standards, our suppliers have a
number of obligations
REACH
The Regulation, Evaluation, Authorisation
and restriction or CHemicals regulation
(REACH) deals with the control of all
chemical substances produced or imported
into the EU. There are a number of
obligations that Ricoh must follow regarding
this, the most important being the sharing of
substance information down the supply chain.
RoHS
The Restriction of certain Hazardous
Substances in electrical and electronic
equipment is important EU legislation relation
to Ricoh Products Ltd. RoHS bans six
substances from being used in electrical and
electronic equipment. These are: lead,
mercury, cadmium, Haxavalent Chromium,
Polybrominated Biphenyls and
Polybrominated biphenyl ether.
CMS
Chemical Management Systems (CMS) are
sometimes required of our suppliers dependant
on the sort of products they handle. The CMS is
a number of requirements that establishes
control and best practices regarding substances
in order to ensure that Ricoh products are free
from any banned chemicals. Suppliers are
audited every two years to ensure consistency.
EMS
As with CMS only suppliers that fall into scope
are asked to introduce Environmental
Management Systems (EMS). Most UK
companies have already implemented an EMS
and gained ISO14001 accreditation. An EMS is
a system implemented for companies to reduce
waste, CO2 and their overall environmental
impact.
Conflict Minerals
Conflict minerals are Gold, Tin, Tungsten or
Tantalite that are mined in Democratic Republic
of the Congo or its 9 neighbouring countries.
These are mined inhumanely, usually by
children who work more than 18 hours at a time
and the profits from these minerals are used to
fund the second Congo war. In conjunction
with EICC and GeSI, Ricoh have started to
address this issue.
As you can see, Ricoh’s high Standards are
throughout the production system from the raw
materials to the overall product and the
customer advice provided. Ricoh aims to be a
leader in innovative and environmentally
friendly products and services and in order to
attain this all employees, suppliers and
customers are involved.