Environmental Label and Green Purchasing Law

TOSHIBA TEC Corporation discloses information regarding many of its products, which comply with the criteria for environmental labels and the Green Purchasing Law.

Type I Environmental Label Labeling requiring certification by a third party organization

Eco Mark

The Eco Mark is a Japanese environmental label established by the Japan Environment Association in 1989.
It is attached to products, which are judged to generate fewer environmental impacts at the stages from production to disposal and to be useful for environmental protection.
TOSHIBA TEC copiers and multifunction peripherals are certified.

Environmental Labeling outside Japan

TOSHIBA TEC copiers and multifunction peripherals comply with the China Environmental Label, the Canadian EcoLogo Symbol, the Nordic Swan Label, Blue Angel Label and other environmental labels including Taiwan Eco Mark and Korea Eco-Label.

Type III Environmental Label Labeling based on consumers' judgment after disclosing environmental impact information through LCA

ECO-LEAF Label

The ECO LEAF Label started in June 2002. According to this label, environmental impacts from every stage covering resource procurement, manufacturing, transportation, usage, disposal and recycling, are calculated with the Life Cycle Assessment or LCA method. This label indicates the calculated environmental impacts as quantitative data. TOSHIBA TEC copiers have been verified and certified. The environmental impact data for the certified products are available on the Japan Environmental Management Association for Industry or JEMAI’s website.

URL http://www.jemai.or.jp/english/index.cfm

Other Environmental Label

International ENERGY STAR® Program

The ENERGY STAR label can be attached to OA equipment whose standby electricity consumption is less than the prescribed standard. This program has been implemented as an optional registration system certified by both the US and Japanese governments, since October 1995. Many models of the copiers and multifunction peripherals in and outside Japan comply with this program. As energy-saving technologies for the target products evolve, the standard of the International ENERGY STAR® Program will be reviewed. TOSHIBA TEC Corporation will move ahead on development to comply with the standard to be revised hereafter.

China Energy Conservation Label

The China’s energy conservation label is granted to products that comply with relevant quality and safety requirements as well as have reached the internationally top-level energy efficiency compared with other products of same category. After the Energy Conservation Law was issued in 1998, the former State Economic and Trade Commission took the lead in an establishment of China Certification Center for Energy Conservation Products, which is the only certification organization for energy efficiency products labeling.

TOSHIBA TEC copiers and MFP shipped to China meet the standard.

Green Purchasing Law Law Concerning the Promotion of Procurement of Eco-friendly Goods and Services by the State and Other Entities

Green Purchasing Law

The Green Purchasing Law enacted in April 2001 throughout Japan makes it obligatory for national, prefectural and local public bodies, enterprises, citizens and manufacturers to devise procurement policies and procure Eco-friendly Goods and Services. The State and Other Entities take the initiative in implementing Green Purchasing. TOSHIBA TEC copiers and multifunction peripherals and electronic white boards comply with the evaluation criteria for the designated procurement items, and the information is disclosed in brochures and on websites. (It will appear in a new window.)