Nature conservation activity - Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Keidanren Nature Conservaition Fund / Keidanren Committee on Nature Conservation

Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Nature conservation activity of:
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

URL:http://www.fujixerox.co.jp/
Contact:CSR Department
Address:Tokyo MidTown, 9-7-3 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Telephone:+81-3-6271-5111
FAX:+81-3-6271-5167
e-mail:fxcsr @ fujixerox.co.jp

1. Stance toward conservation (environmental) activities

Fuji Xerox and its affiliates have the ALL-FX Ecology & Safety Vision of "introduce and develop into all aspects of its business world-class ecology conscious activities that emphasize respect for the environment. Companies in the group will strive to offer customers products, services and related information that are safe and kind to the environment, and thereby contribute to the environmental conservation efforts of individuals and society." The company also actively supports community activities that its employees are involved in, and fieldwork-type activities by civic groups for educating future generations with the aim of developing a social climate that naturally facilitates conservation activities.

Related links
http://www.fujixerox.co.jp/eco/eco_basic/index.html
http://www.fujixerox.co.jp/eco/social/index.html

2. Partnership with NGOs

There is a limit to what a company can do on its own in implementing conservation activities. For this reason, Fuji Xerox recognizes the growing importance of incorporating the opinions of civic groups with expertise in various fields / regions, supporting their activities and establishing a partnership. The Environmental Conservation Group of the Hasu Club, a volunteer group consisting of Fuji Xerox workers (employees, executives and retired former employees), has made donations to civic groups in various regions (78 groups nationwide in FY2006) and participated in community networking and other activities, with support from Fuji Xerox itself. These volunteer activities are also implemented at FX affiliates including those overseas.

Related link
http://www.fujixerox.co.jp/company/social/volunteer/club/index.html

3. Environmental education and volunteer development (for employees)

Basic education is provided to all employees to raise their awareness on environmental conservation and provide them with the ability to initiate conservation action. Efforts are also made to increase the level of specialized environmental knowledge in each workplace. In a bid to foster employees capable of leading environmental volunteer activities within the company or in their respective communities, Fuji Xerox and its affiliates have dispatched workers to training sessions for developing nature observation educators, co-organized with the Nature Conservation Society of Japan since 2001. Around 200 people have undergone the training in a total of seven sessions through to 2007. They are organizing nature observation sessions in various parts of the nation, and implementing other practical field activities for environmental conservation.

Related link
http://www.fujixerox.co.jp/company/social/next/seminar/index.html

4. Environmental education (external)

Fuji Xerox is facilitating the introduction of the "Kids' ISO 14000 Program", an environmental education program for children by the International Art & Technology Cooperation Organization (ArTech), to local schools and employees' families. In FY2006, around 100 volunteer employees, including those from affiliates, supported the initiative for energy conservation (electricity and gas), water conservation and waste reduction, involving approx. 900 children including employee's children and students of elementary schools in Minamiashigara and Ebina cities (Kanagawa Prefecture), Toshima Ward, Hachioji and Kodaira cities (Tokyo), Saitama City (Saitama Prefecture), Tsu City (Mie Prefecture) and Kobe City (Hyogo Prefecture).
Fuji Xerox plans to expand the communities subject to support, in view of the significance in establishing solid environmental awareness and knowledge in children, who will lead the 21st century.

Related link
http://www.fujixerox.co.jp/company/sr/stakeholder/environment/management/education.html

5. Use and preservation of company-owned land, etc.

In the spring of 2003, Fuji Xerox employees and local volunteers began a campaign to grow deciduous broad-leaved trees around the company's Tsukahara Training Center in Minamiashigara City, Kanagawa Prefecture. This is a long-term campaign that foresees the development of a forest that attracts insects and birds in the span of 15 to 20 years. Around 1,100 young trees, planted in the first round of the campaign, are growing healthily, helped by monthly weeding operations. Suzuka Fuji Xerox in Mie Prefecture has set up the "Acorn Plaza" in the greenery area in the compound of its factory, inviting children from nearby kindergartens and elementary schools and offering craft workshops using acorns with volunteer employees. The Plaza is gradually expanded to create a biotope that provides home to dragonflies and Medaka fish, so as to turn the area into a vast field that helps people re-connect with nature.

Links related to the Sustainability Report 2007
http://www.fujixerox.co.jp/company/social/exchange/country/
http://www.suzukafx.co.jp/environment/nature.html

6. Tree planting / growing and other forestation activities

Multifunction devices and printers, which are main products of Fuji Xerox, consume a large amount of "paper", made from wood pulp. For this reason, the company recognizes its responsibility in preserving forest resources. It has not only worked on developing "recycled paper" with high used paper / pulp content, but also participated in tree planting operations overseas. Fuji Xerox joined the tree-planting initiative in New Zealand by Oji Paper Manufacturing and Itochu Corporation in 1992, and began using pulp taken from the initial group of planted trees in 2004. In Japan, volunteer employees from sales subsidiaries, etc. are taking part in forestation operations organized by local governments (Tokyo, Chiba, etc.) and civic groups.

Links related to the Sustainability Report 2007
http://www.fujixerox.co.jp/company/social/exchange/country/index.html
http://www.fujixerox.co.jp/tmx/company/eco/local.html
http://www.fujixerox.co.jp/iwx/company/eco/local.html

7. Other

Sales subsidiaries, etc., participating in local tree planting activities