Resource Efficiency
Basic Approach / Targets and Achievements

Canon's Resource Efficiency Initiatives

Canon seeks to recycle used products to allow the continued reuse of resources and maximize the value brought about by resource efficiency. In addition to contributing to resource efficiency, we believe these efforts will help bring about a carbon-free future.

We are working to reduce the amount of materials used at the product design stage by making products smaller and lighter, extend product lifespans to enable less frequent replacement of products and parts, and pursue designs that make reuse and recycling easy.

Even after products are no longer in use on the market, we continue to engage in the remanufacturing of collected office multifunction printers, giving them new life as products with good-as-new quality, and in the recycling of toner cartridges. Specifically, we have established a framework in which used products and parts are collected from the market and sent to Canon recycling sites, primarily in Japan, Germany, France, the United States, and China. Depending on their condition, we sort the products and parts for the most appropriate recycling process, including reuse as products or parts or material recycling (open- and closed-loop recycling), and repurpose them as new products and parts, thus recycling resources and avoiding waste as much as possible.

In this way, Canon is pursuing an array of initiatives throughout the product lifecycles, contributing to resource efficiency and helping to bring about a carbon-free future.

• *1 Calculation based on average annual improvement rate of the three most recent years. The basic unit denominator is decided according to the characteristics of each operational site (production volume, effective floor area, workforce, etc.)
• *2 For scope of data collection：Environmental Performance Data

Flowchart of Resource Efficiency

Canon Recycling Sites Worldwide