Environmentally Conscious Management
Education and Cultivating Awareness

Environmental Education

Canon's environmental education programs provide basic environmental training to all employees, and specialized training for employees engaged in specific types of work. The basic environmental training aims to equip employees with an awareness of the importance of environmental assurance activities and an understanding of related policies and targets, while the aim of the specialized training program is to enable employees involved in environmental assurance activities to acquire knowledge and expertise. The specialized training program consists of product environment, operational site environment and environmental audit sections. Of these, product environment training enables those responsible for product environmental assessments and product surveys to acquire knowledge and expertise. These educational programs are designed to enable employees to receive needed training at a time that suits their schedule, whether by e-learning, group discussion, group work, or other method. We are also focusing efforts on global education initiatives utilizing training materials translated into English and Chinese. In 2025, we carried out training for employees involved in risk management related work (total of approximately 10,200 participants).

List of Environmental Educations

"Minimum Energy 360" Canon's Motto for Energy and Resource Conservation

In Canon, aiming to foster a shared mindset among employees to help speed up our response to the issues of energy saving and resource recycling, Canon in 2023 adopted the motto “Minimum Energy 360.” Emphasizing the need to minimize energy usage in every direction (360˚), this motto encapsulates our ongoing commitment to various actions to use the minimum amount of energy at every step across the value chain, from the time that Canon carries out development and production, to the stage of transportation and logistics, to the point at which customers use our products and when they are finally reused.

By adopting this motto, the idea is that staff start to view every kind of corporate activity as an opportunity to minimize energy usage, embedding this outlook as a part of the general culture at Canon.

In 2025, we incorporated elements of Minimum Energy 360 into the criteria for Canon’s internal environmental awards, seeking to instill these priorities in employees.

Next-Generation A3 Color Laser Beam Printer That Improves Environmental Performance from Every Angle Wins Top Award

Minimum Energy 360 Practices of the Printing Group

The Printing Group, which handles multifunction printers, strives to minimize environmental impact (decarbonization and resource efficiency) across product lifecycles using Canon’s technology and systems.

Initiatives of the Printing Group

Reduce Through Tech（Examples of Initiatives）

• ①Improve the Recycled Material Adoption Rate

  We are working to reduce the use of new resources by incorporating recycled plastics into our products, accessories, and consumables and increasing their content ratio.

  

• ②Make Smaller and Lighter

  We capitalize on simulations to help reduce the use of resources during development. Also, making products smaller and lighter allows the more efficient loading of containers, thus lowering the environmental burden during transportation.

  

• ③Extended Service Life of Consumables

  We have significantly extended the service life of consumables by means of technological development, such as the revision of materials and structures. This has reduced the number of parts manufactured and is helping to reduce the use of new resources.

  

• ④Designs That Make Reuse Easy

  We are standardizing product housings and pursuing the modularization of parts and production lines. We reuse parts across different products, reducing the volume of new parts used.

  

Reduce Through Systems（Examples of Initiatives）

• ①Reuse Collected Items

  We are strengthening product recycling and the reuse of consumables and parts through new product-equivalent quality control. We are also streamlining collection and recycling through digital foundation technology.

  

• ②Process Collected Items Into Recycled Materials

  We are promoting recycled material use through efficient material extraction and in-house material creation and product use.

  

Comments from the Person in Charge

I’m involved in the business of remanufacturing multifunction printers that have been collected from the market. Our recycled multifunction printers have achieved an industry-leading reuse rate of 95.5%, made possible through the standardization of parts by means of platform development and the use of operational data from the collected devices to streamline the recycling process. As products with high quality, low price, and excellent environmental performance, the devices combine economic rationality with reduced environmental impact.