Toshiba e-STUDIO Products Added to EPEAT Registry Of Greener Electronics

     Company’s Multifunction Products Meet New Environmental Standards and Qualify for Inclusion in the Definitive Green-Rating System’s Imaging Equipment Category

 
    (November 15, 2013) IRVINE, California - To underscore its commitment to designing and delivering products to help facilitate customers' environmental stewardship, Toshiba America Business Solutions, Inc. today announces 34 of its e-STUDIO™ multifunction products (MFPs) are registered in EPEAT. EPEAT is the definitive global rating system for greener electronics.

 
    Toshiba, the leading managed print services (MPS) provider and business printing solutions innovator registered its multifunction products in the recently added imaging equipment category of the EPEAT Registry. The EPEAT system rates products on a lifecycle basis and considers, among other things, its absence of toxic substances, its use of recycled and recyclable materials, and its design for recycling, product longevity, energy efficiency, corporate performance and packaging.

 
    "Toshiba has been a valued EPEAT participant for six years, and I commend the company for providing leadership in the new imaging equipment category," said Robert Frisbee, CEO of the Green Electronics Council. "Toshiba's dedication to create greener business products underscores its commitment to the environment and demonstrates the value it sees in the EPEAT system."

 
    "We are elated to have our products meet such stringent criteria to become EPEAT registered," said Tom Walter, director of aftermarket sales, marketing and operations for Toshiba America Business Solutions, Inc. "Creating greener, more sustainable products speaks to Toshiba's philosophy of fostering a more sustainable global environment. This deeply established ethos parallels the principles EPEAT has created."

 
    To be added to the EPEAT Registry, an imaging device must meet at least 33 required environmental performance criteria. Products may achieve higher ratings by meeting some or all of 26 additional optional criteria. The rating criteria were developed during a four-year stakeholder consensus process that involved hundreds of representatives from the environmental, research, governmental and manufacturing sectors.

 
    EPEAT is used as an environmental purchasing requirement by eight national governments, including the United States, and is integrated into hundreds of municipal, educational, healthcare and enterprise IT contracts worldwide. For more than six years, EPEAT ratings have helped companies, governments and consumers compare and purchase greener PCs and monitors, resulting in significant environmental benefits. The EPEAT system expanded in 2013 to include televisions and imaging equipment such as printers, copiers, scanners and multifunction devices.

 
    According to the Green Electronics Council, since 2006, purchasers choosing EPEAT-registered electronics over products that don't meet the system's criteria have eliminated greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to 11 million U.S. vehicles' annual impact, avoided more than 394,000 metric tons of hazardous waste and reduced solid waste by nearly 167,000 metric tons - equivalent to nearly 86,000 U.S. households' annual waste.

Source: Toshiba America Business Solutions, Inc.