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Konica Minolta Business Solutions New Zealand - Environmental Policy
Statement of Intent
The following statement demonstrates Konica Minolta Business Solutions New Zealand’s (KMBSNZ) commitment to improving our environmental performance.
The “Globe Mark,” a symbol logo of the Konica Minolta Group, is designed after the earth, and represents the union of customer confidence in us, the reliability we offer to our customers, and the range of our proprietary technologies.
We believe that confidence and reliability should relate not only to product quality and safety but also to environmental measures.
We would like to offer such products that relieve our customers from worries that the product they purchase might unnecessarily harm the global environment.
As part of our responsibility for the environment we ensure our manufacturer - Konica Minolta Business Technologies (Japan), aims to assess the impact that products have on the environment through their entire life cycle and to reduce environmental load at all stages.
KMBSNZ’s aim is to promote sustainable development and profitable growth. As a company we are committed to the protection of the environment and choose to play a role in the sustainability of our world’s natural resources.
The following principles govern KMBSNZ business practices:
Compliance with environmental legislation
We will comply with relevant governmental requirements with respect to environmental protection.
Environmental consideration during the lifecycle of products and services
We are committed to reducing the environmental impact in all stages of the life cycle of our products and services, recognising that responsibility for a product rests with the brand owner and manufacturer.
Initiating energy and waste reduction programmes
We aim to minimise consumption of natural resources and energy; optimize our resource and energy use; and promote waste reduction and energy efficiency. We will continually review our environmental performance and initiate the recovery, reuse and recycling of our end-of-life products and packaging materials.
Prevention of pollution and minimising environmental risk
We will conduct our operations in a manner that safeguards health, protects the environment and conserves valuable materials. We will reduce the use of toxic chemicals where possible and take precautions to prevent chemical pollution, as chemical substances impose significant impact of human health and safety and the environment.
The following objectives guide the KMBSNZ environmental management programme:
1. Environmental legislation compliance
1.1 Ensure that KMBSNZ complies with all relevant governmental environmental regulations and laws with regards to product manufacture, importation, distribution and disposal.
2. Product design and manufacture
2.1 Ensure products imported from KMBT (Japan) meet best practice environmental design in manufacture, distribution, marketing and disposal stages of their life cycle.
2.2 Maintain the environmental criteria set forth by The NZ Ecolabelling Trust EC-24-05 specification for the Konica Minolta bizhub range of machines.
3. Product reuse
3.1 Continue to offer products to customers via a lease arrangement, to optimize recovery and reuse opportunities by KMBSNZ.
3.2 Refurbish and resell/lease used machines.
3.3 Reuse as many component parts as possible to repair in-service machines.
3.4 Recovery from customers and reuse where possible.
4. Product, consumables and packaging recycling
4.1 Continue to offer products to customers via a lease arrangement, to optimize recycling opportunities by KMBSNZ.
4.2 Recycle as many component parts of machines as possible, once machines are no longer able to be reused.
4.3 Offer a toner cartridge recycling programme to KMBSNZ customers.
4.4 Ensure product packaging is recovered from customers and recycled.
4.5 Offer a KM recycled paper stock to KMBSNZ customers.
5. Facility efficiency
5.1 Develop and implement energy efficiency and recycling programmes within KMBSNZ facilities nationwide
A series of action plans to achieve these objectives have been initiated.
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