Japanese Corporation Toshiba intends to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by about 120 million tons per year till 2025, that equivalent to emissions of the Tokyo for two years, as said the company.
"In its "Environment Plan Toshiba 2050" the company has developed a criterion for measuring the impact on the environment, but also set a goal to increase eco-efficiency by 10 times. Ecological criterion evaluates not only the emission of greenhouse gases, but also other factors affecting the environment, such as radioactive materials using in the manufacture and disposal of waste, "- notes the report.
"The plan for 40 years might seem unrealistic. Nevertheless, the environment can not change instantaneously, this would take long steps. Toshiba in its "Environment Plan 2050" focused on the future, and we are pleased to see the progress made by our company in 2008 year "- are contained in the message, the word vice president of emerging markets EMEA division of Computer Systems Toshiba Peter Paul Ickx.
Toshiba Corporation has already made significant progress in improving the environmental performance of its products and business processes. Thanks to the use of energy-saving technologies have been a number of Toshiba notebooks certified ENERGY STAR. The use of LCD displays with low power consumption, LED-backlighting manually adjustable and solid-state drives instead of hard disks can reduce overall energy consumption. Also, Toshiba has introduced a new program to manage power consumption, offers the user four different treatment for different scenarios of laptop using. |
