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Xerox Report Covers Sustainability Efforts

Xerox 2018 Global Corporate Social Responsibility Report details commitment to sustainability, social investment, governance.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Contributing Editor, Coatings World and Ink World

Xerox published its 2018 Global Corporate Social Responsibility Report detailing the impact of the company’s sustainability efforts across operations in 160 countries.
 
Highlights from this year’s report include:

  • 100% of newly launched eligible Xerox products satisfied the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT®) and EPA ENERGY STAR® eco-labels;
  • 100% of products and parts returned by customers at end-of-life, diverted from entering landfills. Instead, we remanufactured, reused, recycled, or provided the waste to suppliers who converted it into an energy source;
  • 6% of the US employee population are military veterans;
  • 9% of our total supplier spend is with small Tier I businesses, minority, woman or veteran-owned businesses;
  • Employees provided 91,000 hours to local community involvement projects.
 Earlier this year, the company published the first-ever 2018 Corporate Social Responsibility Progress Report, a data-driven and evergreen summary of goals and performance in the environment, social and governance categories. The progress report was created to enhance stakeholder communication and provide an easy to use reference that will provide real-time, updated data as well as goals for each category.
 
Xerox is announcing two new sustainability goals: reducing energy use by 25% and also by 2025, reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 25% from the 2016 baseline.
 
“Xerox is an iconic company driven by innovation, the smart investments that create the products and services to help our customers be more productive, profitable and sustainable,” said John Visentin, vice chairman and CEO, Xerox.
 
 

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