As the accomplishment of its Integrated Recycling Systems in Japan and Asia-Pacific region, Fuji Xerox has announced that it slashed the amount of new resources by 3,860 tons and reduced 25,000t-CO2 emissions in 2007.

This outcome was achieved because production of devices incorporating recycled parts increased, from 11,000 units in fiscal 2005 to 17,000 in fiscal 2007, resulting in less use of brand-new parts.

With environmental issues at the forefront of management challenges, Fuji Xerox formulated a companywide product recycling policy of “approaching as close to ‘zero landfill’ as possible and promoting the reuse of resources” to eliminate waste in products recovered from customers.

In December 1995, Fuji Xerox was the first in the office equipment industry to offer products with recycled parts via the introduction of the Integrated Recycling System in Japan. The total production volume of such machines has topped 300,000 units. The company also started operation of the system in the Asia Pacific region in December 2004, and in China in January 2008.

Under the system, used copy/multifunction devices are recovered from customers and disassembled, and those parts that satisfy stringent quality standards would be introduced into the production line, while those that cannot be reused would be separated into a maximum of 44 categories in Japan and 74 in Asia Pacific.

They would be then thoroughly broken down into substances and materials to be recycled. Even the finest metal, rubber and glass resources, which were previously deemed difficult to recycle, are turned into raw material. Fuji Xerox achieved 99.99 per cent of recycling rate in Japan, and 99.3 in Asia Pacific.

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