Recycling of Used OA Equipment

Abstract

To realize environmental management, the Ricoh has been promoting such activities as manufacturing of products with less environmental impact, contributing to customers in reducing their environmental impact and pursuing profitability of recycling business. From the viewpoint of the recycling business, the Ricoh has been building their unique collection and recycling system to achieve 99% of recycling ratio, involving 92% of material recycling ratio, for end-of-life copiers. In this report, the following is described in detail:
-Overview of the collection and recycling system
-Commercialization of a flux for steel manufacture with waste toner as raw material which is one of applications for material recycling development
-Diagnosis technology for reuse purpose using the Quality Engineering which is vital for reconditioning copiers