Environmental Consideration throughout Entire Life Cycle of Products

摘要

The Fujitsu Group is currently engaged in promoting Design for Environment (DfE) in its products and reducing environmental burden throughout the entire life cycle of products.The Group has been implementing product environment assessment since FY1993 with the purpose of reducing energy consumption, saving resources and improving the recycling rate based on power saving and energy conservation technologies, while eliminating harmful substances through chemical substance management.Setting the target of providing customers with high-performance products in addition to reducing environmental burden, the Fujitsu Group has developed Green Products which are DfE products in the Fujitsu Group, developed Super Green Products integrating supreme elements in terms of environmental consideration, and taken approaches to enhance the environmental efficiency of products through introducing the eco-efficiency factor.Further, since FY2013, emphases have been placed particularly on improving the energy efficiency and resource efficiency of products to further promote the development of DfE products.In this paper, the Fujitsu Group's past approaches in the DfE area are outlined and its efforts to improve energy efficiency and resource efficiency of products are introduced in the Fujitsu Group Environmental Action Plan, Stage VII (FY2013–FY2015).