Office Furniture, etc. 1 Basic Policy on Promoting Green Purchasing

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4. Office Furniture, etc. 1

Items and Evaluation Criteria Chairs Desks Shelves Storage furniture without shelf Low partitions Coat hangers Umbrella stands Bulletin boards Blackboards Whiteboards Evaluation Criteria Shelves and storage furniture comprised primarily of metal should fulfill requirements outlined in 1 and 5. For all other products, one of the following should be met. Products whose primary material aside from metal is plastic, wood and paper should fulfill the requirements outlined in 2 and 5, 3 and 5, and 4 and 5, respectively. For products that include wood as a non-primary material should fulfill 3 a; products that include paper as a non-primary material should fulfill 4 b. 1 Products included in Table 1 must fulfill both a. b. and c listed below. Other products must fulfill both b. and c. listed below. a. Does not exceed criteria listed in Table 1 for each category. b. Ratio of dismantle-possibility into single material must be 85 or higher. c. Takes into account environmentally conscious design noted in Table 2 for each evaluation criteria. 2 Recycled plastic makes up at least 10 by weight; otherwise, vegetable based plastics whose reductive effect of environmental load has been confirmed makes up at least 25 by weight of total plastic used. 3 Must fulfill the following: a. Lumber obtained from thinning, recycled wood pieces obtained from plywood or lumber factories, or virgin pulp used as the raw material must be in compliance with the regulations concerning forestry in its country or geographical area of origin. b. Discharge rate of formaldehyde from materials is no greater than 0.02 mgm²h, or the equivalent. 4 Must fulfill the following: a. At least 50 recycled pulp content. b. If virgin pulp is used as the raw material, the pulpwood used is to be in compliance with the regulations concerning forestry in its country or geographical area of origin. This does not apply to virgin pulp manufactured with lumber obtained from thinning, or virgin pulp manufactured by using recycled wood pieces obtained from plywood or lumber factories, material left over from forestry, or lumber with small diameter. 5 Supply of the service parts and spare parts shall be continued 32 for 5 years or more after the termination of product manufacturing. Factors for Consideration 1 Designed for long-term use, taking into account maintenance, repair and the replaceability of parts that wear. Designed to enable component reuse and easy disassembly for refurbishment and recycling, or the appropriate disposal of the separated parts after the item’s useful life. Special care taken in the design of item’s metal components to enable long-term use, conservation of resources, and reuse of materials, based on the evaluation criteria of the Law to Promote Effective Use of Resources Law No. 48 of 1991. 2 Organic solvent, or paint with as low odor as possible such as powder paint and water-based paint is used as coating. 3 A system for collection and reuserecycling of used products, and a system for the proper disposal of components which cannot be reused or recycled is considered. 4 If wood is one of the materials used in the product, lumber that is used as the raw material is to be obtained from a forest that is conducting a sustainable operation. This does not apply to virgin pulp manufactured with lumber obtained from thinning, or virgin pulp manufactured by using recycled wood pieces obtained from plywood or lumber factories. 5 If paper is one of the material used in the product, and furthermore, if virgin pulp is used, pulpwood that is used as the raw material is to be obtained from a forest that is conducting a sustainable operation. This does not apply to virgin pulp manufactured with lumber obtained from thinning, or virgin pulp manufactured by lumber using recycled wood pieces obtained from plywood or lumber factories. 6 Packaging and stowage is made as simple as possible, and takes into account ease of recycling and reduced environmental impact upon disposal. 7 A system for the collection and reuserecycling of packaging, etc. is considered. Note: 1. White board under consideration in the evaluation criteria in this section includes all types of writing boards excluding chalk boards. 2. Comprised primarily of metal indicates that metal used for the product comprises 95 or more of the total product by weight. 3. Ratio of dismantle-possibility into single material in Evaluation Criteria 1 will be determined using the following formula. 33 Ratio of dismantle-possibility into single material = number of parts that can be dismantled into a single material number of parts in the product x 100 Parts to which one of the following is applicable will not be included when calculating ratio of dismantle-possibility into single material. a. Parts used to prevent overturning due to theft, earthquakes or as a part of the operating process includes locks, overturning prevention parts, drawer guide-rails, etc.. b. Parts that maintain sections that project from the main product hinges, drawer guide-rails, etc.. c. Accessory bolts used to secure or connect a part that meet the Japan Industrial Standards or its equivalent. 4. The definition of Recycled paper and The percentage of recycled paper pulp content is according to “2. Paper 2 Recycled paper and the percentage of recycled paper pulp content” in this Basic Policy. 5. Recycled plastic denotes part or all of plastic once used as a part of a useful product that has been discarded, remnants discarded during the manufacturing process, or the recyclereuse of defective articles This excludes, however, plastic that has been recycled in the process of manufacturing the product. 6. Vegetable based plastics whose reductive effect of environmental load has been confirmed denotes material whose reductive effect of environmental load has been confirmed by a third party such as an LCA expert through a quantitative, objective and scientific analysis and evaluation, including effects of trade off, of the environmental load of the product throughout its lifecycle. 7. Discharge rate of no greater than 0.02 mgm²h, or the equivalent, denotes the following. Office furniture-Desks and Tables that fills standard of JIS S 1031, Office furniture-Chairs that fills standard of JIS S1032, Shelves and Racks that fills standard of JIS S 1039 and Office furniture-Storage cabinets that fills standard of JIS S 1033 meet this criteria. a. Wood material with a corresponding Japan Industrial Standard or Japan Agricultural Standards, whose criteria for formaldehyde discharge is regulated, must meet the criteria for F 34 Table 1: Function weight criteria for bookcase shelves and office storage furniture shelves comprised primarily of metal Categories Criteria Shelves of storage furniture excluding those for special purposes such as medical chart storage 0.1 Shelves of bookcases, lightweight shelving systems, and mid-weight shelving systems 0.1 Note: the formula for calculating the function weight criteria to use for shelves is as follows: Function weight criteria = shelf weight kg shelf resistance load kg Table 2: Items for environmentally conscious design concerning bookcases and storage furniture comprised primarily of metal Purpose Evaluation items Evaluation criteria Design with consideration for reduction Reduction of raw material use Use of raw material is reduced. Reduction of weight, use of light-weight material Reduction of weight, use of light-weight material is taken into consideration for parts and material. Design with consideration for recycling Use of recyclable material M aterial that can be recycled is used. Consideration for the ease of separating and dismantling reusable parts Assembly takes into consideration the ease of separating and dismantling reusable parts. All other parts can be easily taken apart. Use as recycled resource M aterial used in the synthetic resin portion is listed. Design takes into consideration separation of material. 2 Target Setting Guideline Ratio of the number of goods of a certain type that meet the criteria, to the total number of goods of that type to be purchased in the fiscal year. 35

5. Office Automation Machines 5-1.Copiers, etc.