Reduce, Reuse and Recycle

The biggest direct impact we can make to reduce our environmental impact is to reduce our level of wastage or resources, prolong the life of our products through reuse, or recycle end of life material into a feed stream for new products.

Our takeback, recycling, consumption reduction and emission reduction programs all exhibit elements of the reduce, reuse, and recycle approach and align to our Product Stewardship policy and our ‘Zero Waste to Landfill’ principle.

Our takeback programs are not limited to machines and consumables, in an industry first Ricoh operates a parts recycling program.  Service parts replaced by our technicians during the servicing of machines in the field are either recycled using the Collection boxes at the customer’s premises (from our Toner Cartridge Takeback Program) or removed and returned to the branch into designated recycling receptacles.

All of our programs have combined to successfully divert from landfill  tonnes of Ricoh trade waste to date.