Reducing environmental impacts
Avoid
Discover device-related inefficiencies and directly avoid emissions with our monitoring and assessment services. We’ll help you speed up your digital transformation and build a more sustainable print fleet that matches your needs, with a portfolio of efficient print and scan devices.
Reduce
Deploy smart print management solutions to reduce energy and media use across your fleet. Control your print activities and set print policies with our award-winning uniFLOW Online software for a fleet-wide efficiency boost, reducing pages printed through automatic and manual job deletion.
Digitise
Identify where your existing processes can be digitised. For example, could you use a secure eSignature solution to manage contracts? Would a cloud-based document management solution like Therefore Online streamline your online workflows?
Compensate
Balance any remaining greenhouse gas emissions resulting from your printing on Canon products with the Canon Climate Project Contribution service, which funds climate and environmental initiatives around the world.
Reducing lifecycle emissions
We target every stage of the product lifecycle to help you reduce your environmental impact. That means:
• Designing products with quality, durability, and the circular economy in mind.
• Manufacturing to conserve resources by using renewable energy and greater resource recycling.
• Packing our products responsibly to optimise shipments.
• Offering value-add services that enable remote support and reduced waste.
• End-of-life processes that promote reuse and recycling.
What we do to support you
Learn how we keep sustainability in mind at every stage of the product lifecycle.
Reducing the environmental impact of a product works best when considered from the start. That means looking at how the product is designed and built, how it will be packed, transported, used, and what happens to it after the end of its first life.
Sustainable design
We design our products to ensure they have a longer life and perform for years, with longer life replacement parts and ultra-robust welded metal frames.
We are constantly looking for ways to make our devices more efficient. That’s why Buyers Lab Inc. (BLI) ranked our A4 devices number one for energy efficiency with the BLI Most Energy Efficient Laser A4 Brand Award 2023 – 2025, and overall, our energy saving technologies are expected to achieve a CO2 reduction of 3.2 million tons.
Our focus on quality helps reduce service intervals, in some cases more than halving the average number of service calls required.
Responsible manufacturing
When we manufacture our devices, we look to conserve resources – whether that’s using less raw materials, using recycled materials, or saving energy.
Through that, we’ve achieved a reduction of 44.4% in the lifecycle CO2 emissions of our products from 2008 to 2023.
Sound logistics
We strive to reduce the impact of transporting our products, through efficient logistics, smaller sized devices, and more recyclable packaging.
For example, for the imageRUNNER DX C5860i, we have achieved a weight reduction of 25%, making it more efficient to transport.
We aim to use as much paper and cardboard in our packaging from sustainable or recycled sources as possible, and we minimise plastic usage where we can.
Smart services
From installation and maintenance to support and resolution, we aim to provide as many of our services remotely as possible.
Remote Canon engineers can resolve issues through onscreen annotation and live video streaming, avoiding emissions from unnecessary travel.
Our intelligent, remote consumables management systems automatically order replacement toner and combines shipments as needed.
Reuse and recycle
We embrace the circular economy, with a continuously enhanced range of remanufactured and refurbished products. Our imageRUNNER ADVANCE ES series are now built with at least 90% reused parts. Overall, since 2008, we’ve reused more than 37,155 tons of products and parts.
We also collect used toner cartridges in 24 countries, with a cumulative volume of 464,000 tons as of the end of 2023, achieving a reduction of 331,000 tons in resource use.
The circular economy ecosystem in the Canon Giessen Factory
Explore our cutting-edge facility in Giessen, Germany, where our ES devices are remade.
Remanufactured imageRUNNER ADVANCE ES series
Discover our remanufactured multifunctional devices – the ES range.
Refurbished imageRUNNER ADVANCE CU range
See why our refurbished devices offer a sustainability boost at an attractive price point.
Sustainability for imageFORMULA
Find out more about our sustainable scanners.
Canon is committed to business sustainability
As part of our corporate philosophy of kyosei – living and working for the common good – we put sustainability at the heart of our business.
Canon sustainability brochures
Sustainability in the Workspace with Canon
Awards and certifications
CDP A list
For 2023, Canon has been awarded an A score for climate change by CDP, the third time we have been included on their highest-ranking A list and placing us in the top 2% of companies assessed in this category. The CDP is an international environmental non-profit organisation which evaluates major companies and organisations worldwide on their efforts to tackle environmental issues.
BLI Most Energy Efficient Laser A4 Brand Award 2023 – 2025
Market research institution Buyers Laboratory Inc. found that our laser A4 devices were significantly ahead of the market in terms of energy efficiency. The 12 Canon laser A4 devices tested used 37% less energy than the next two competitors combined, leading to the Most Energy Efficient Laser A4 Brand Award 2023 – 2025.
ISO 14001
In 2023, Canon Inc. and Group companies operating in 40 countries and regions (in total, 120 companies/553 operational sites) had gained ISO 14001 certification.
Blue Angel
88% of relevant products qualified for the German government’s Blue Angel environmental label in 2022, meeting stringent criteria on quality.
Sustainability for production
Learn how we work to reduce the environmental impact of our production print portfolio.
Sustainability
Sustainability is key to our mission of using imaging to transform our world. Learn more about how we do that through our social and environmental initiatives.