Customer Environmental Impact Mitigation
The impact that one company can have on the achievement of a sustainable society is limited, but Epson is looking to make an impact and make the world a better place through products and services that support customers' sustainability efforts and through collaborative action with local communities and partners.
As a manufacturer, Epson has always asked itself what it can do to achieve a sustainable society and has worked for many years to increase the energy efficiency of its production processes and products, improve resource efficiency, and eliminate harmful and hazardous substances.
To make a greater contribution, we seek to drive work process innovations by minimizing the environmental impacts incurred by our customers when using Epson products and by raising operational efficiency and productivity. Achieving this will mean taking on new challenges to offer value existing technologies cannot provide.
Epson's answer is to use our original technologies to provide products and services offer this value to our customers worldwide.
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Goal
Reducing environmental impact through products and services
In addition to reducing its own greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and using resources responsibly, Epson aims to help customers lower their environmental impact through its products and services. By providing and promoting products and services with a lower environmental impact than conventional alternatives, Epson contributes to reducing the overall environmental footprint of society.
Promoting Avoided Emissions
Avoided emissions is the difference between the GHG emissions that would have resulted from the introduction and use of environmental impact smaller products or services over their entire life cycle and the emissions that would have resulted if they had not been introduced. This is a quantitative indicator of the contribution of products or services to the reduction of GHG emissions in society. Epson aims to maximize the avoided emissions through products and services that contribute to the reduction of environmental impact. In addition, by visualizing (calculating and disclosing) avoided emissions, Epson will concretely demonstrate its environmental contribution, thereby achieving both business growth and avoided emissions expansion.
Epson's inkjet printers require less limited lifetime parts in addition to the low power consumption through Heat-Free Technology, which uses no heat to eject ink. By promoting the replacement of laser printers, thereby reducing the environmental impact associated with printing and contributing to the environmental impact reduction of society. To ensure that the information is fair to customers, the calculation logic was developed based on the guidelines published by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and confirmed by a third-party organization. avoided emissions by replacing laser printers with Epson A3 color inkjet printers will be 15.1 thousand t-CO2e1.
1 The value obtained by multiplying the difference between the weighted average of the published lifetime CO2 emissions of major laser printers in the global market and the lifetime CO2 emissions of Epson's A3 color inkjet printers by the number of Epson A3 color inkjet printers sold in the fiscal year, based on the calculation method verified by Mizuho Research & Technologies, Ltd.
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Case Study
We sell products and services that transform the way our customers work. In so doing, we are minimizing their environmental impacts while also raising their operational efficiency and productivity.
- Our innovative products and services make our customers' jobs and lives easier and more enjoyable while also shrinking their environmental footprints.
- Our products and services enable new business processes and offer outstanding economic and environmental value.
