Environment
Our sustainable products and schemes, will help you reach your CSR goals and further enhance your commitment to the future of the planet.
Sustainable Business
We live on a planet with limited resources which includes the ability of our environment to deal with pollution. If resources are limited and emissions need to be avoided, then growth cannot remain unlimited. The impending global warming and its consequences force all of us in industry, politics and society in general to act.
With this in mind, we take measures to conserve energy and resources and reduce the burden on the environment. At the same time we understand the needs of our customers. Therefore, we make sure that our environmental products and solutions not only have an ecological benefit, but also impact the economy and efficiency of businesses.
Below are some of our products, services and schemes which will help your environmental objectives and become a part of a greener tomorrow.
Cartridge Recycling Scheme
Recycling and reusing toner cartridges enables the reuse of valuable resources. It also helps reduce the production of new ones, ultimately conserving resources and minimising the environmental impact associated with cartridge manufacturing.
To help minimise the environmental impact of our printer supplies, we offer our Cartridge Recycling Scheme, designed for the return of genuine supplies that can be used and replaced in any of our multifunction devices and printers. Each Recycle Box can hold approximately 20 average size toner cartridges.
Full Recycling Boxes will be collected by our registered carrier. The contents would be recycled in accordance with environmental regulations and a waste transfer note is then issued. Cartridges that cannot be reused are safely broken down into their different material components and then remanufactured into alternative products such as car parts, steel building structures, cans, marine paint, road surfacing and colorant products where possible. All materials that are returned are recycled and/or reused. None of the waste ends up in a landfill.
Accepted Products
- Ink Cartridges and Ink Tanks
- Toner Cartridges
- Toner Bottles
- Fusers
- Waste Toner Containers
Non Accepted Products
- Batteries
- Bio-Hazardous Material
- Cartridges from third party manufacturers (non-original cartridges)
- Waste that does not originate from printers
When toner cartridges are not recycled, they contribute to the growing amount of electronic waste. Recycling cartridges helps to minimise this waste and supports environmental waste management practices. In many countries legal regulations are in place that require businesses to properly dispose of their electronic waste, including toner cartridges. Recycling and possibly reusing toner cartridges ensure that you are adhering to these regulations.
Carbon Zero Scheme
What is the Carbon Zero scheme?
Back in 2009, Toshiba took an active step to help the environment. Through the Carbon Zero Scheme, Toshiba found a way to reduce its impact on the global climate.
They introduced the concept of carbon offsetting. This is a way to reduce the amount of CO2 released into the atmosphere by balancing or cancelling out these gases. Toshiba achieved this by setting up environmental projects around the world; essentially putting back into the earth what was taken out.
What projects does the Carbon Zero scheme support?
The projects set up as part of the Carbon Zero scheme aim to compensate for the greenhouse gas emissions produced through the creation and delivery of Toshiba devices.
Take a look at just three of the projects below.
• In Kenya, one project provides energy efficient stoves. The stoves produce 50% reduction in the need for firewood and carbon emission is reduced
• In Uganda, a project rehabilitates boreholes. This restores a safe, clean source of drinking water for the community, reducing the need to boil the water. This too saves the unnecessary creation of carbon emissions.
• In Brazil, a rain forest protection project is in place providing sustainable forestry management. This ensures that thousands of animals’ natural habitats are protected
How has the Carbon Zero scheme helped?
Between 2009 and 2015, the Carbon Zero scheme has had a total carbon offset of 430,150 tonnes of CO2. This is equivalent to driving around the earth’s circumference 56,121 times, or 127,232 return flights from Dusseldorf to Tokyo.
It is important to realise, these projects have a social and economic impact. Across the world, the projects provide jobs for local people, helping all generations of the community, improving their health for years to come. Building a better future for the communities involved.
How the Carbon Zero Scheme can help your business?
You will be playing an active part in helping the environment by investing in products that are involved in Toshiba’s Carbon Zero Scheme, without compromising on product quality or performance. Our Toshiba multifunction printers and other products that have been carbon offset will be supplied with the Carbon Zero logo.
Managed Print Services
Streamlining your information and document workflows not only helps you become more effective, you also save valuable resources and improve your environmental practices. As a result, reducing costs for you and a greener tomorrow for us all. We offer an extensive portfolio of solutions which helps you achieve this or you can take advantage of our Managed Print Services to reveal hidden savings. Whatever you plan to do, you can be assured that you have a trusted partner at your side.
Toshiba e-BRIDGE Plus App for Green Information
We all make a conscious effort on a daily basis to do our upmost to protect the environment. However, if you are wondering how to do more for our planet and its inhabitants during your working day, then the e-BRIDGE Plus for Green Information App is for you.
This tool helps you keep a really close eye on your print paper usage in the office and your resulting CO2 footprint. It displays the number of printouts and reused sheets of up to ten Toshiba MFPs and/or reusing units in your network. Sustainability is good for the environment and is, after all, not that complicated. It is now well within easy reach for you too.
Toshiba Hybrid Multifunction Printer
Our Toshiba Hybrid Multifunction Printer (MFP) provides a great solution for companies who want to be ecological and remain economical and efficient. This is an innovative MFP which allows you to reuse your standard office paper. Toshiba’s Hybrid MFP prints in regular black as well as in erasable blue. Toshiba’s erasable blue toner allows you to reuse the paper you have printed on, so that you can use less paper, without having to print less. reducing your company’s footprint and helping you save money.
Save resources: paper savings of up to 80%
Assuming that you are printing 5,000 pages per month, you will have used no less than 300.000 sheets of paper in five years. A very considerable pile of about 30 meters in height and approximately 1.5 tonnes in weight. But when reusing your paper five times you can save 80% of your today’s consumption. In other words: The same amount of paper which you would usually use in only one year, will now last for five years.