Fuji Xerox Co. has received the Monozukuri Special Environment Award at the 19th Nikkei Global Environmental Technology Awards sponsored by Nikkei Inc.
The company was recognized for the establishment of its Integrated Recycling System in China, which for "being the first in the industry to build a logistics network for recovering used products and cartridges spanning the whole of mainland China," as well as implementing the advanced reuse and recycle technologies and know-how created in Japan" and "having achieved a high recycling rate as well as adopting a pioneering approach to address the serious waste problem in China."
The Nikkei Global Environmental Technology Awards were established in 1991 to honor outstanding achievement contributing to global environmental conservation as well as sustainable development in the areas including investigation, research, countermeasure technology and others touching on global environmental issues.
The Integrated Recycling System recovers used products and cartridges nationwide as part of Fuji Xerox’s corporate responsibility, and disassembles and sort them followed by appropriate handling of hazardous materials.
Prior to building the system in China, Fuji Xerox established the Integrated Recycling System with the aims of achieving "zero landfill" "zero pollution" and "zero illegal dumping" in Japan in 1995.