Identifying Environmental Impact and Target Setting (Eco Balance)

Basis for Sustainable
Environmental
Management
Identifying Environmental Impact and Target Setting (Eco Balance)
The Eco Balance data on environmental impacts caused by overall business activities
are utilized for establishing long-term targets and action plans.
Eco Balance of Overall
Business Activities
(Fiscal 2003)
Electric
power,
heavy oil,
etc.
Crude oil
Chemical substances
contained in products
Manufacturing
Production sites
Non-production sites
[TJ]
Oil
[thousands
of tons]
Ore
[thousands
of tons]
Coal
[thousands
of tons]
Etc.
[thousands
of tons]
Water
[thousands
of tons]
Oil
4,145
Oil
21
64
Chemicals
Ore
Oil
3,599
Oil
543
Water
3,099
Water
208
68
31
Coal
Etc.
6
[t]
Manufacturing
of parts
Materials
[t]
[thousands
of tons]
CO2
CH4
BOD
COD
CH4
BOD
COD
[t]
CH4
[t]
BOD
[t]
Figures Integrating Environmental Impact of Business
Activities
Unit: ELU
* Data collection area
is mainly within imaging system-related
businesses.
Chemical substances
contained in products
0
CO2
22
CH4
35
BOD
0
COD
0
348
15
5
COD
Upstream
SOx
155
3,145
Production sites
Non-production
sites
1.0E+09
8.0E+08
6.0E+08
4.0E+08
2.0E+08
1.57E+08
CH4
3
7
236
1.50E+08
CO2
NOx
39
SOx
CO2
CO2
249
1.48E+08
SOx
NOx
[t]
4.68E+08
Output
NOx
Chemicals
2.37E+08
NOx
Parts
[t]
4.73E+08
Chemical
substances
(toluene,
dichloro- Chemicals
methane,
etc.)
Manufacturing
of products
2003
2002
2003
1.55E+07
Chemical substances (lead,
hexavalent
chromium, Chemicals
PVC, etc.)
1.53E+07
Tap water/well
water/industrial water
SOx
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Upstream
Coal
Others
1. Eco Balance means the preparation of a list of input and
output data on environmental impact to identify, quantitatively measure, and report environmental impacts caused
by companies; or such a list itself.
2. Environmental Priority Strategies for Product Design
(EPS), developed by the Swedish Environmental Research
Institute (IVL) to calculate LCA of products, is used in calculating the Eco Balance of business activities. Under
EPS, damage caused by environmental impact on human
health, the ecosystem, non-living resources, and biodiversity is converted into financial values using ELU (Environmental Load Unit) as unified indicators (CO2=0.108
ELU/kg, NOx=2.13 ELU/kg, SOx=3.27 ELU/kg,
BOD=0.002 ELU/kg, etc.).
3. See page 27. 4. See page 13. 5. See page 15.
● Review of Fiscal 2003
As for Eco Balance in image systemrelated businesses, integrated environmental impact as a whole
decreased approximately 5% from
that in the previous fiscal year. This is
mainly due to further reductions in environmentally sensitive substances
(lead, hexavalent chromium, PVC,
etc.) contained in products and progress made in the use of natural-gas
vehicles during product transportation. However, because environmental
impact caused by the production and
use of resources is increasing, measures to reduce such impact are currently underway.
Oil
Procurement of Materials and Parts
Ores
Input
To effectively reduce the impact of processes with larger environmental impacts on a priority basis, the Ricoh
Group identifies the environmental impacts of overall business activities and
per process using Eco Balance.1 Eco
Balance shows the numerical data of all
environmental impacts caused by business activities, such as effects on human health, resource depletion and
effects on the ecosystem. These numerical data were obtained by applying
the integrated analysis method2 of the
data collected by the Sustainable Environmental Management Information
System.3 Based on the evaluation of the
“integrated environmental impact” that
was identified by “the Eco Balance”,
“the Year 2010 Long-Term Environmental Goals”4 and “the Environmental Action Plan”5 are estalished.
2002
2003
0.0E+00
(FY) 2002 2003
Ratio of Integrated
Environmental Impact
(Fiscal 2003)
27.83%
2002
8.70%
9.26%
0.91%
Basis
Concept
Logistics and Marketing
Transportation
Marketing
Use
Paper
635
Oil
Oil
Maintenance
Recycling/disposal
Manufacturing of
maintenance parts
Oil
463
Water
19
36,695
5,870
274
Oil
Etc.
47
Oil
1,427
0
Chemicals
Collection and
recycling
Use
(customers)
Marketing
Social Contribution of
Environmental Conservation/Communication
Collection and Recycling
Maintenance
Oil
249
Business Sites
Use and Maintenance
Electric power
Oil
Products
R
Products
NOx
SOx
CO2
CH4
BOD
27
NOx
41
NOx
SOx
16
SOx
183
14
NOx
2,121
146
14
CO2
37
CO2
222
CH4
183
CH4
384
70
7,756
CO2
15
CH4
68
2,706
CO2
0
Transportation
Marketing
Electric power
Paper
3
SOx
7
NOx
1
CO2
31
SOx
0
BOD
1
CO2
1
COD
1
7
SOx
SOx
NOx
16
NOx
Maintenance
Manufacturing of
maintenance parts
Disposal and recycling
Integrated
environmental impact
1.52E+07
8.88E+06
8.98E+06
6.66E+05
6.72E+05
2002
2003
2002
2003
2002
2003
1.70E+09
1.83E+09
2.15E+07
2003
7.38E+08
9.20E+07
2002
7.72E+08
9.05E+07
2003
3.61E+07
1.43E+07
2002
4.30E+07
1.92E+07
2.0E+09
1.6E+09
1.2E+09
8.0E+08
4.0E+08
0.0E+00
0.84%
2002 2003
2.13%
5.42%
2002
2003
43.44%
0.89%
0.53%
0.04%
2002
2003
100%
“E+n” means “´ 10n”
(Example) 1.45E+08 = 1.45 ´ 108
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