Recycling

Toshiba develops and provides environmentally conscious products which contribute to reducing environmental impacts throughout the product life cycle. We implement product design that uses recycled materials for laptops, adopt materials that are easy to recycle, and promote materials recycling.

Products and used batteries should not be treated as household waste and should be collected separately. By ensuring proper product disposal, you will help prevent potential negative consequences for the environment and human health, which could otherwise be caused by inappropriate waste handling of products.

The aim of recycling is to gain an environmental benefit by means of re-use, reconditioning, and/or recovery of material. Dedicated recycling sites ensure that environmentally harmful components are properly handled and securely disposed. Toshiba and its partners have contracted competent service providers to ensure the best recycling of our products, including recyling of batteries and packaging.

Information for Recycling Partners
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Greening in logistics

Transportation and logistics contribute strongly to greenhouse gas emissions, so Toshiba aims to reduce weight and packaging. This results in a reduction of energy needed for transportation of goods:

Toshiba Regensburg Technologie and Service Center (TSC) improved the PC cushion delivered from a factory in China: Before they used cushions with non-separated structure in the big boxes covering six devices. Nowadays those cushions can be separated for using the single parts when repacking the devices one by one in the resale boxes. This means that the cushions used for the shipping to Europe no longer have to be disposed of. This logistical improvement has led to a yearly waste reduction of 96.707 tons or 377 tons CO₂.

Efficient packaging design plays an important role in helping to reduce emissions produced in the logistic process. Smaller package form factor means that more product boxes are able to fit on one palette; more palettes thus fit on each truck, and therefore fewer trucks are required for transportation. This subsequently results in less CO₂ emissions.

Shrinking packaging of an average 15" laptop leads to 25 per cent weight reduction, 38 per cent volume reduction, and makes it possible to pack 52 instead of only 34 pieces on a pallet.

Instead of a completely printed manual Toshiba delivers laptops with a Quick Start Guide. The complete manual is installed on the machine and can be downloaded on Toshiba's website. This initiative makes huge multi language manuals dispensable and is expected to save around 2600 trees per year.

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