An environmental label is a mark that provides information on the environmental characteristics of products and services and how it reduces environmental impact. These labels appear on products, packaging, technical documentation, and advertisements to assist consumers in selecting products and services that help reduce environmental impact.
The Fujifilm Group takes action to reduce the environmental impact of its products and services and discloses objective and transparent information on their environmental performance. We use environmental labels, including ecolabels, self-declared environmental claims, and environmental product declarations. Here are some of the major environmental labels obtained by FUJIFILM Business Innovation.
This is a program operated by a third-party certification body. When a business applies for certification, the body assesses its products and services against criteria that consider their life cycle. It then authorizes use of the label for products and services that meet the criteria.
The labels identify products and services recognized as having low environmental impact when their entire life cycle is considered. For details, visit the Japan Environment Association website.
A system in which businesses use self-declared environmental claims instead of making them through third-party schemes to provide information on the environmental characteristics of their products and services. They appear on product labels and in instruction manuals, advertisements, catalogs, sustainability reports, and other materials.
Under its Sustainable Value Plan 2030 CSR plan, which targets FY2030, the FUJIFILM Group operates the Green Value Products certification program to help address environmental issues in society through its products and services. The program evaluates products’ environmental performance, including climate change mitigation, resource conservation, and resource circularity, using the Group’s established internal rules for environmentally conscious design. It internally certifies products with outstanding environmental performance.
This label identifies businesses that participate in FUJIFILM Corporation’s PLATE to PLATE Aluminum Recycling System and advance recycling through the system.
The PLATE to PLATE Aluminum Recycling System is a Resource Circulation System that recycles aluminum from used CTP/PS plates for offset printing into new CTP/PS plates of the same type.
The mark indicates that participating businesses help reduce CO₂ emissions and use resources efficiently by collecting and recycling used plates. Businesses that participate in and collaborate on the recycling system may use the mark.
The purpose of the system is to help build a circular society and reduce environmental impact by advancing closed-loop aluminum recycling (recycling without loss of quality), conserving resources, saving energy, and reducing CO2 emissions.
An EPD discloses quantitative data on a product’s environmental impacts using life cycle assessment (LCA). Publishing this information online and through other channels helps consumers and businesses make green purchasing and procurement decisions. It also helps businesses quantify their products’ environmental impacts and advance activities to reduce them.
An environmental product declaration under the SuMPO EPD program uses life cycle assessment (LCA) to disclose quantitative data on environmental impacts and resource consumption throughout a product’s life cycle, from raw material procurement through manufacturing and use to disposal and recycling. It is based on ISO 14025. For details, visit the Sustainable Management Promotion Organization (SuMPO) website.