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Introduction

At Toshiba, we believe it’s important for us to be a contributing member of the greater community, and as such, we’re always growing and developing our products, our people and our business. But we know that we must grow in a sustainable way. As a result, environmental considerations are built into every Toshiba product and process.

Why Toshiba EID?

Toshiba Electronic Imaging Division (EID) is a leading Australasian supplier of document imaging solutions. At Toshiba we are constantly looking for new ways to improve the design and manufacturing of our products. Innovations that use less energy, have fewer parts and components that can be reused in other forms after the original product has reached the end of it’s economic life (EOL). Identifying and adopting sustainable environmental strategies has been a long term, ongoing commitment of Toshiba Corporation. Toshiba was one of the first to establish an Environment Department and all facilities manufacturing Toshiba EID products are ISO 14001* compliant.
*International Environmental Standard

Toshiba EID’s environmentally responsible products.

Increased environmental awareness has been good business for businesses. By implementing purchasing policies that favour environmentally friendly office products, businesses can save on electricity, cut paper costs, reduce waste and even increase productivity. Making a commitment to ‘Green Up’ your organisation also gives you the added satisfaction of knowing you are making a contribution to the future of our planet.

Toshiba EID’s cartridge recycling program.

Highly resistant to degradation, the plastic and metal components of cartridges in a landfill site can last for as long as 1000 years. Toshiba’s cartridge recycling partner is Close the Loop Limited (CTL), an Australian company that is leading the world in this specialised field of resource recovery and reuse. They have developed a process that takes cartridges, breaks them up, separates and recovers the metallic component materials and then blends and reprocesses the various mixed plastics remaining on site.

> Their highly skilled team of research chemists is a leader in this field and continues to evaluate new ways of streamlining and enhancing their processes.

> Their ‘Zero Waste to Landfill’ process is independently audited and while their operation has achieved ISO 9001 certification they are working towards ISO 14001 accreditation.

Toshiba EID’s environmental responsibility

‘Saving the environment is everyone’s responsibility.‘ Toshiba Corporation in Japan acknowledged this fact long ago and started then making positive steps to improve their product and total business ‘environmental investment‘.

In fact, Toshiba has been developing products, systems and management policies long before it became popular to be ‘pro environment’.

Toshiba Multi Function Devices (MFD) sold in Australia are engineered to meet or exceed all current environmental and safety regulations now in place or proposed around the world. Engineers work closely with Global Environmental regulations ensuring compliance in every possible way. Our products and supplies are designed to conserve natural resources and minimise the use of harmful substances.

Effective utilisation of resources

All materials used in Toshiba MFD equipment can be remade into new products. Metals, such as aluminium, can be reused again and again.
Recycling these materials to make new products often uses less energy and makes better use of our material resources. It also leaves more ‘virgin materials’ in the ground for future generations.

Strength through Global partnership

Toshiba is a world leader in building strong partnerships between businesses, governments and communities. We strive to ensure that everything we do demonstrates Toshiba’s commitment to working towards a better future.

> Do something - Save paper. Toshiba is a founding member of John Dee's Save Paper alliance. An audacious initiative, it's about getting people in your office to do things a little differently to help reduce your paper usage.

> Close the Loop Limited is an Australian based global recycler of imaging consumables including inkjet and laser toner cartridges, drum units and copier toner containers. Using leading edge technologies and state of the art materials separation processes, they ensure all Toshiba cartridges are recycled with zero waste going to landfill. Close the Loop shares our common values and high standards and is an ideal partner for Toshiba (Australia) Pty Limited.

> Sims Group is the largest collector, processor and supplier of recycled metal, plastics and electronics products in the world. Toshiba has partnered with Sims to ensure our EOLproducts are handled by a world’s Best Practice company. Simsmetal, the recycled metal’s division of Sims Group recycles all Toshiba’s end of life MFD products, recovering metal, plastics and glass for renewal and reuse in a new product cycle.

> Visy Industries “When we as a community effectively reuse finite resources we are making our world a better place.” Founded in 1948 Visy is one of the world’s largest privately owned packaging and recycling companies. Visy Recycling established in 1979 collects over 900,000 tonnes of paper and cardboard from over 20,000 businesses. All of Toshiba’s paper and cardboard packaging is collected and is returned to use as new and innovative products.

Why Green up your office products?

At Toshiba we are constantly researching, developing and producing environmentally friendly products. Among many environmental and engineering challenges facing designers, ENERGY STAR compliance is one of the basic criteria considered when new products are created. ENERGY STAR compliant products reduce the amount of energy consumed by either automatically switching into a ‘sleep’ mode when not being used and/or reducing the amount power used when in ‘standby’ mode.

Update 24/04/13