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- Our Policy and Vision
- Our Progress and Results
- Environmental Management
- Environmentally Friendly Products and Services
- Environmentally Sound Products from the NEC Group
- What Are NEC’s Environmentally Sound Products?
- NEC's "Eco Symbol" and "Eco Symbol Star" Environmental Labels
- Examples of Eco Symbol Star Products (Hardware)
- Using Bioplastics in Products
- Green Procurement
- Activities for Control of Chemical Substances in Products
- Collection and Recycling
- What Are NEC's Eco Software Services?
- Examples of Eco Symbol Star Products (Software and Services)
- Activities toward Ecosystem and Biodiversity Preservation
- Activities within Business Operations
- Environmental Communications
- Social Contributions through Environmental Activities
- Overseas Engagements of the NEC Group
- Environmental Data
ECO Symbol Standard
| ECO Symbol Standard | Compliance condition | |
|---|---|---|
| Global warming prevention | The reduction in the power consumption of the products achieves the target for FY2011*. *Target for FY2011: The amount of CO? emissions (performance based) of the products are reduced by 50% or more (end of FY2011, compared with that of FY2006) |
♦ |
| The reduction in the power consumption of the products achieves the medium term "target of the subsequent year" *. *FY2009 30%, FY2010 40%, FY2011 50% (Compared with that of FY2006) |
o | |
| LCA is implemented for similar product groups from the manufacturing stage to the disposal stage. | ♦ | |
| Applicable to the International Energy Star Program (Targets: PC, printer, large high-performance display of 30 inches or more) |
o | |
| Legal compliance | Complies with the Energy Saving Act. | o |
| Complies with the Act on Promoting Green Purchasing. | o | |
| Resource recycling | Eco plastics* are used for the product. *: Recycled plastics, Eco-polyca (including recycled Eco-polyca), bioplastics, and so on |
o |
| Advantages over third party products | Has obtained Eco labels other than the TypeII. *: (Eco Mark, Eco Leaf (Japan), Blue Angel (Germany), TCO (Sweden), and so on) |
o |
| Environmental technologies that are more advanced than other companies are introduced. "First in the world", "First in Japan", "First in the industry", and so on | ♦ | |
| New technologies*5 are introduced. *5: "Lead-free soldering in the network infrastructure/server" and "Use of organic materials as alternative materials", and so on |
o | |
| Satisfies all the Eco product standards. | o | |
| Superior to third-party comparative products or existing products. | o | |
| Transparency | Information such as environmentally oriented items and appeal points are disclosed through the Internet homepages, manuals, and catalogs (information distribution). For the information specific to particular customers, the environmental information is presented to the customers. | o |
Compatibility conditions*:
♦: Satisfies one or more installation/implementation item of the top-runner technology that is more advanced than other manufacturers
o: Satisfies three or more items for securing compliance and transparency and has more contributions than those of the existing products.
