Being fully aware of the impacts of both business activities and product development on the environment, Toshiba strives to reduce such environmental impacts and focuses on three perspectives: prevention of global warming, control of chemical substances and efficient utilization of resources.

Factor T. Environmental responsibility is always a factor.
Toshiba has responsibility down to a science. With Factor T, Toshiba has created a unique indictor that can reveal the eco-efficiency of any Toshiba product. Factor T uses a mathematical formula to balance the value of a product with its overall environmental impact. The resulting number is then used to determine benchmarks for improvement.

Green Procurement. Green on the inside.
Thanks to innovative procurement standards, Toshiba products are built responsibly from the ground up. In 2000, Toshiba launched a company-wide initiative to promote the green procurement of manufacturing supplies, including environmentally conscious parts, components and raw materials. Toshiba suppliers take a stringent, 22-point environmental performance survey. Priority is then assigned to suppliers with the highest survey scores. The innovative program not only results in greener products, it gives suppliers the incentives and resources needed to improve their environmental practices.

Toshiba’s Environmental Recovery and Recycling Effort (TERRE)
What happens when non-functioning PCs are sent to landfills? Many of the materials used to make notebook computers, projectors, LCD monitors and Pocket PCs contain toxic elements that pose environmental risks and can also affect our personal health when they seep into our ecosystem.
What is TERRE? TERRE is a proactive program to ensure that end-of-life computers are disposed of in an environmentally respectful manner. Toshiba will recycle any manufacturer’s notebook computer, projector, LCD monitor, or pocket PC free of charge.

Learn more about Toshiba Canada's Commitment to the Environment:

TERRE (Toshiba's Environmental Recovery and Recycling Effort)
- About TERRE
- The Computer Recycling Process

Recycling Laptop Batteries

In addition to offering resources to support responsible recycling of consumer electronics products, Toshiba maintains its commitment to preserving the environment by sponsoring Call2Recycle, a program of the Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation. For more information and for drop-off locations, visit www.rbrc.org or call 800-8-BATTERY.

The international ENERGY STAR symbol is a simple way to identify products that are among the most energy-efficient on the market. The use of energy-efficient products helps save the environment. In many parts of Canada, fossil fuels are often burned to produce electricity. The burning of fossil fuels is a major source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, a leading cause of climate change and other pollutants that contribute to urban smog and acid rain. When less energy is used by selecting energy-efficient products, less electricity needs to be produced, reducing GHG emissions and promoting cleaner air. ENERGY STAR products use 25 to 50% less energy without compromising quality or performance. Toshiba is proud to be an ENERGY STAR partner.

All 2009 Toshiba LCD TVs have earned the Energy Star 3.0 label.

EPEAT: Toshiba is proud to be a registered manufacturer with EPEAT, which stands for the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool. EPEAT helps government technology purchasers compare and evaluate computers, notebooks and monitors based on their environmental attributes. All EPEAT-registered computers have reduced levels of cadmium, lead and mercury for an environmentally conscious approach that benefits both technology users and the environment. EPEAT computers are also more energy efficient and easier to upgrade and recycle.

Regulatory Compliance

A leading global citizen, Toshiba meets and exceeds the strict standards set by these world-recognized directives:

WEEE (Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment) Protects the environment by promoting the reuse, recycling and recovery of electronic materials.

RoHS (Restriction on Hazardous Substance Standard) Seeks to reduce the use of manufacturing substances that harm human health or the environment.

The result? We've kept tons of toxic chemicals and other substances out of the ecosystem.

Greenpeace Names Toshiba Portégé R600 Greenest Notebook

The Toshiba Portégé R600 was named the greenest notebook in Greenpeace’s second annual “Green Electronics: The Search Continues” survey, stating that, “Toshiba is ahead of everyone else when it comes to the elimination of toxic chemicals.” The survey assessed more than fifty consumer electronics on their use of hazardous chemicals, energy efficiency, overall product lifecycle (ability to be recycled and upgraded) and other factors such as the promotion of environmental friendliness and innovation.

Through valuable products and services that utilize a sustainable approach, Toshiba has contributed to the environment’s well-being by restricting hazardous substances from the Portégé R600, including cadmium, mercury and lead from batteries and other components.An LED backlit display, the latest CPUs, and the use of a SSD (Solid State Drive) as a storage medium also results in low energy consumption and long battery life that further reduces its environmental impact.
Toshiba also stresses green procurement in all aspects of the Portégé series’ development. Collaboration with component and part suppliers further helps Toshiba achieve the targeted carbon footprint. The factory in which the Portégé series is manufactured recovers and recycles waste generated during the manufacturing process, including silver, copper and tin.

Toshiba Green Event 2008

On May 14, 2008 Toshiba of Canada held a Green Event at its Head Office location in Markham, Ontario. The aim of the event was to Launch its Leave No Trace partnership with Scouts Canada and actively contribute to a greener Markham through a clean up of Milne Park.

Toshiba of Canada is proud to partner with Scouts Canada to provide a Leave No Trace environmental education program for leaders and youth. The goal of the Toshiba and Scouts Canada Leave No Trace program is to provide fun and informative resources for Scouts Canada’s leaders to educate our youth about the seven Leave No Trace principles. This partnership will provide resources and materials that, in time, will affect hundreds of thousands of youth and adults, impressing upon them proper respect and care for the environment.

It is truly remarkable what the efforts of a small group can accomplish. The Toshiba employees who assisted with the Milne Park clean up not only helped to improve the look of the Park by picking up litter but contributed to the protection of an important and sensitive watershed in the Markham area. Removal of this litter is very important since much of it eventually ends up in the river at the Park, compromising water quality and presenting a hazard to fish and other wildlife.

Click here to view a training resource for the Leave No Trace Program made possible through the Toshiba of Canada and Scouts Canada partnership.

Click the links below to view videos of the Toshiba of Canada and Scouts Canada partnership.
Toshiba of Canada and Scouts Canada Video 1
Toshiba of Canada and Scouts Canada Video 2

Toshiba's REGZA TV Wins First-Ever PC Magazine GreenTech HDTV Award

PC Magazine, a leading technology publication delivering authoritative, labs-based comparative reviews to more than 6.6 million technology buyers, has selected Toshiba's 42XV540U REGZA LCD TV as its first-ever GreenTech Approved HDTV. According to PC Magazine's tests, the 42XV540U exhibits low power consumption and solid energy efficiency for a 42-inch LCD.
Although the 42XV540U was deemed environmentally friendly on its own, Toshiba's TV earned the seal in part because Toshiba, as a company, is working to minimize waste and reduce energy consumption.

Toshiba has been a fixture on the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (DJSJ) of the world's 300 leading companies for nine consecutive years since 2000. The DJSI, compiled by Dow Jones of the U.S. and SAM of Switzerland, is an influential ranking system that seeks to promote socially responsible investment (SRI). DJSI assesses the sustainability performance of the world's 2,500 largest companies and selects the top 10% for the index. Toshiba was selected as four leading companies among 39 in "Diversified Industrials" of "DJSI World 2008”, and obtained the highest score in the environmental sector.

Electronics Product Stewardship Canada (EPS Canada) is developing a national electronics end-of-life program in Canada. As a not-for-profit organization, EPS Canada works with an array of partners and stakeholders to design, promote and implement sustainable solutions for Canada's electronic waste problem. The founding companies and associations of EPS Canada want to see Canada's electronic waste properly managed. These industry leaders are aware of both the pressures on municipalities for landfill management and the environmental necessity to handle the potentially hazardous content of electronics products and reuse the valuable resources they contain. Toshiba is one of the original 16 founding members of EPS.