CAN EPSON CUT CO-2 EMISSIONS BY 90% ……….?

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Epson aims to cut CO2 emissions by 90 percent
Electronics and printing company Epson has pledged to reduce its CO2 emissions by 90 percent by 2050.
Speaking
in Brussels on Tuesday, Akihiko Sakai, executive corporate strategy
officer for Seiko Epson Corporation, asked other printing companies to
match Epson’s targets.”Our aim is to reduce CO2 emissions within the
lifecycle of our products and services by 90 percent by the year 2050
compared with current levels, in order to keep emissions below the
Earth’s CO2-absorption capacity,” said Sakai. “We would like to invite
other members of the printing and imaging industry to match or better
our targets.”

An Epson spokesperson said the company “believes the target is realistic”.
“We’re
balancing what we believe we can achieve against not being too
conservative,” said the spokesperson.Epson’s current CO2 emissions run
at approximately 750,000 tonnes per year. To help achieve its targets,
the company will conduct reviews when designing products “to shrink
parts sizes and weights and to reduce part counts.””You can’t shrink
everything too much — after all, an A4 piece of paper is a standard
size — but… we’re making parts smaller and lighter so there is less
impact when moving them around,” said the spokesperson. The company
will also overhaul its logistics and distribution operations to make
them more efficient.Epson said it will also diversify its product
strategy in reusing parts, stepping up its take-back, leasing and
rental schemes. The company added that it would also endeavour to halve
the emissions generated by its cleaning rooms.In addition, Epson will
encourage its employees to assist in reforestation schemes and
environmental activities around the globe. In terms of Europe, the
company already assists in reforestation efforts in Germany and is
“looking at how to help restore biodiversity after the fires in
Portugal last summer”, the spokesperson said.

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July 8, 2008 at 11:10 AM