Set the bar high with ENERGY STAR® and other energy-saving technology
EPEAT: Use gold, silver, and bronze ratings to recognize green products
Ricoh is a charter member of the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT®), a program designed to help identify green imaging equipment and electronic devices. Established in January 2013, EPEAT also includes a number of important environmental attributes for imaging equipment, such as:
Energy efficiency
Packaging
Consumable take-back programs
Reduction or elimination of environmentally sensitive substances
There are three levels of EPEAT designations based on number of criteria met by each product.
Gold
Meets all “Required” & over 75% of “Optional” criteria
Silver
Meets all “Required” & over 50% of “Optional” criteria
Bronze
Meets all “Required” criteria
By engaging in EPEAT, Ricoh is further enhancing its complete portfolio of products and services to better manage and reduce environmental impact and cost, while improving productivity for our customers and creating shared value for our society. We continue to work closely with our business partners in order to evaluate and improve our products and services and to provide our customers with greener imaging equipment.
We are committed to offering “EPEAT-registered” imaging devices and creating a greener partnership with our customers in North America. EPEAT-registered products are country specific and are for the United States and Canada only respectively.
Get more information about the EPEAT Imaging Equipment Program
Eco-Responsible Procurement - UL ECOLOGO®
We are an active participant in numerous industry organizations and associations that help in establishing standards that are beneficial for the imaging equipment industry and our customers.
UL ECOLOGO® Certified products and services are verified for reduced environmental and health impact. ECOLOGO Certifications are voluntary, multi-attribute, life cycle-based environmental certifications that indicate a product has undergone rigorous scientific testing and exhaustive auditing to prove its compliance with stringent, third-party environmental standards.
These standards set metrics for a wide variety of criteria in some or all of the following categories:
Materials
Energy
Manufacturing and operations
Health and environment
Product performance and use
Product stewardship and innovation
