Pitney Bowes’ Commitment
to the Environment
Waste Minimization
Design for Environmental
Quality (DFEQ)
Pitney Bowes’ commitment to minimize our products' environmental
impact has led us to focus upon
product design. It is at this point
that the most fundamental
improvements can be accomplished. Our aggressive DFEQ program goals include:
• Using fewer resources to produce
a product
• Minimizing use of environmentally sensitive substances
• Reducing energy use in product
manufacture, transport and customer use
• Improving product reusability,
recyclability and ease of disassembly
• Reducing volume and increasing
recyclability of packaging
• Increasing recycled content of
product, packaging and manuals
Environmentally
Responsible Procurement
Pitney Bowes’ program for greening our supply chain includes working with our suppliers to identify
opportunities for improving their
environmental programs, while also
providing an opportunity for us to
learn from them. This relationship
between partners generates
changes that working in isolation
would not deliver.
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Pitney Bowes realized that industrial waste is a manifestation of operating inefficiency, so we made a
commitment in 1989 to eliminate
hazardous emissions to air, water
and land. By year-end 1998, our
emissions had decreased 96%,
95% and 93% respectively. Other
wastes targeted for reduction
include: packaging, styrofoam dinnerware, paper from office operations and pre-launch testing products. Over 5,700 tons of these
materials have been diverted from
the waste stream through various
programs.
End of Life Asset
Management
With over seventy-five years of
end-of-life asset management
experience, Pitney Bowes is well
suited to meet the growing customer demand for producer takeback programs. As we receive
returned equipment, we implement
extensive product remanufacture
and parts harvesting processes for
mailing, facsimile and copier
equipment. These processes significantly reduce the environmental
burden of bringing equipment to
market and servicing products.
All products not reused are sent to
vendors that recycle the base
materials to the extent economically feasible.
We are also focusing on creating
products that minimize power use
in our customers’ operations.
Pitney Bowes worked with the
USEPA to create an Energy Star ®
class for mailing machines in
1996. To date we have qualified
six new designs to this standard,
and we expect future machines to
achieve EPA’s Energy Star ® standards. The majority of our new
copiers and fax machines are
already Energy Star ® certified.
Corporate Sponsorship of
Environmental,
Conservation Programs
Pitney Bowes actively promotes
environmental awareness in the
communities in which we live and
work. We accomplish this by providing direct financial support to
environmental organizations, as
well as by matching employee
donations to qualified organizations.
Major, New Initiatives
Pitney Bowes recently announced
our intention to ensure that the
paper we buy is not sourced from
old growth forests. We are also
seeking to reduce our consumption of all wood content fibers. The
first step in this journey will be to
maximize the post-consumer content within the paper products we
purchase, to the extent economically and technically feasible.
Energy Management
Pitney Bowes sees energy management as a tremendous opportunity
for environmental improvement.
On a weather-normalized basis, we
have reduced our energy consumption by 14.8% since 1997.
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Galaxy® Mailing Machine
The Galaxy® Series Mailing System – Working For Mailers And The Environment
Energy Efficiency
Wall thickness
has been
reduced by
over 20% in
several of the
Galaxy®
System’s larger plastic cover
pieces, as compared to previous
generation mail
machines, resulting
in less material used
for each product.
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Improved
Manufacturing
Processes
To minimize
use of the
ecologicallytaxing
process of
electroplating
in the manufacture of the
Galaxy®
System, Pitney
Bowes now
applies electrically conductive
paints to several of
Galaxy® System’s large
components in lieu of
electroplating.
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Efficient Use
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Resources
Pitney Bowes has designed the majority of the
packaging materials for the Galaxy® System,
including a transport skid, from corrugated fiber
to ensure easy recyclability of the packaging.
Additionally, any returned products not included
in the remanufacture program are sent to recycling vendors to recover the base materials. In 1999, over 7.5 million
pounds of base material was
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Reduce Your Operating Costs!
The Galaxy® Mailing System
was designed to achieve EPA’s
aggressive Energy Star ® performance standards. The Galaxy®
System immediately reduces
energy use by 70% following completion of mail processing activities. This feature
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results in lower operating
costs for the customer
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and reduced environm
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Recyclability
Reuse via Remanufacturing
Pitney Bowes remanufactures many
mailing products, making them available for
resale. Our plan is to add the Galaxy® Mailing
System to our remanufacturing program sometime in the future. Pitney Bowes also uses recovered product as a source for service parts. In
1999, an average of 34% of Pitney Bowes’ service components were derived from recovered
equipment.
Recycled Paper-Friendly
Use of recycled-content paper can be a challenge to newer printing technologies. During
incorporation of digital printing capabilities,
Pitney Bowes ensured the Galaxy® System could
accommodate the use of recycled paper.
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Galaxy® Mailing Machine