Green Products - Resource Conservation in Products

We are using our Resource Factor, which represents the resource efficiency improvement rate (compared against a fiscal 2001 baseline),^*1 to measure our contribution to ensuring the most efficient utilization of resources through our products and services. We have set targets for this factor within our GP Accreditation criteria, and are striving to develop technologies for the effective utilization of resources while improving our product functions.
   For 30 major products, we were able to reduce the use of resources by 18,600 tons for products released in fiscal 2007 as compared with the use of resources for those released in fiscal 2006. The total mass of these 30 major products, however, amounts to as much as 396,000 tons on an annual basis (Japan only). We aim to further reduce the size and weight of our products in order to (i) reduce the amount of material use, (ii) reduce the rate of non-circulating resources over their life cycles,^*2 (iii) use more recycled resources, and (iv) increase recyclable resources, thereby improving our overall resource efficiency.

• *1 Resource efficiency = (Product life product function) amount of non-circulating resources over the entire life cycle
• *2 Non-circulating resources over the entire life cycle: Resources extracted from the earth + amount of wasted resources = 2 resources input throughout the life cycle - amount of recycled resources - amount of recyclable resources

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• Pursuit of higher resource efficiency
• Resource factors of products
• Collecting and recycling resin for reuse in products
• Product with a high Resource Factor(Personal fax machine)