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At Canon Virginia, we take our role as an environmental leader seriously. In keeping with Canon USA, the following is our charter.
Our Environmental Charter
- Operate an environmental management system to continuously improve our environmental assurance and performance.
- Comply with all applicable environmental laws, regulations and other requirements agreed upon with stakeholders, while upholding Canon environmental assurance policies.
- Pursue pollution prevention, energy and resource conservation, and focus on the elimination of hazardous substances in all Canon activities.
- Increase the environmental awareness of Canon’s employees and encourage environmental protection initiatives on an individual level.
- Explore methods to minimize the environmental burden of products throughout their life cycle and promote research and development achievements that contribute to environmental assurance.
- Purchase products with lower environmental burden.
- Encourage collection and recycling of our products at the end of their lifetime.
- Maintain close relationships with governments, communities and other interested parties, provide support and participation in environmental programs and actively disclose information on Canon’s environmental performance.
As part of our charter, Canon Manufacturing looks to PRODUCE • USE • RECYCLE whenever possible.
Canon uses recycled materials and materials free of hazardous substances to produce its manufactured goods. We also actively promote innovations aimed at conserving resources and energy while pursuing the development of substitute technologies to replace hazardous substances.
Canon products use environmental technologies aimed at improving performance and ease of use while reducing the environmental burden.
After achieving 100 percent recycling of consumable cartridges, Canon is now targeting the recycling of its own products.