ENVIRONMENT

Welcome to the Verbatim Environmental page.

As you know the earth has limited resources and humans are in the majority making a negative environmental impact on it. Here at Verbatim we have a number of measures in place to reduce the impact that our company has on the environment. These include our logistics operations, our manufacturing and our packaging. We also have a toner recycling initiative in place, so that you too can help to recycle our products.

Environmental Policy from our parent company Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation:

Responsible Care for the Environment:
We will commit ourselves to the protection of the environment and endeavour to reduce environmental burden in the course of all our business activites, including promotion of resource and energy conservation, waste reduction, resuse and recycling, as well as environmental conservation and development of its technologies.

The Environment & Logistics:

Inbound:

• We reduce air freight to an absolute minimum and prefer transportation by sea vessels as the CO2 emissions per ton/mile is much lower.
• We use ships from the far east to Europe with longer travel times as the CO2 emissions are much lower than faster ships.

Warehouse:

• Our main Warehouse is situated directly on the River Rhine in Germany so that containers can be transported from the port of Rotterdam by barges instead of trucks.
• Our new warehouse was constructed according to the latest energy efficiency standards.

Outbound:

• We only work with forwarders which have the newest trucks and equipment and which reach the highest stadards in regards to CO2 emissions by the EU.
• Wherever possible we maximise truck loads to reduce the number of vehicles on the roads.

The Environment & Packaging:

• Our factories have environmental management systems in place which comply with ISO 18001.
• We use recycled materials in our packaging. For example we use recycled paper and plastic in our optical products.
• Wherever possible we are reducing packaging and blister sizes to minimise waste. Smaller packaging also means less shipments as you can fit more units into the same amount of space, more units per shipment.
• Verbatim Multimedia Markers are non-toxic. The ink is water based and not harmful to the environment.
• Verbatim Toner and Storage Cases are made from recycled material.
• Inkjet Paper is manufactured from material from well managed forests that are accredited by the Forest Stewardship Council.
• We have reduced the packaging sizes of our USB, Memory Card and 3.5" External Hard Drive products.

Packaging logos

	Recyclable Symbol: This indicates that the packaging can be recycled.
	Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE): The presence of this logo on any product indicates that the product should not be placed in the general refuse and that it should be seperately collected for approved recycling or disposal operations.
	The Green Point / Der Grüne Punkt: This indicates that the manufacturer of the product contributes to the cost of recovery or recycling. Manufacturers pay licence fees and the cost depends on the type of packaging material used. This encourages manufacturers to cut down on packaging as this saves on the cost of the licence fees.
	CE Marking: In order to offer electrical and certain other products for sale in Europe, they must be CE marked. Displaying the CE mark indicates that the product complies with all relevant CE marking directives.
	Federal Communications Commission (FCC): This is a US based commission. This logo indicates that the product does not cause interferance with other devices within the home or office.
	China RoHS: This logo indicates that the product does not contain any of the substances under the RoHS (Restriction of Hazardous Substances) directive and also the Chinese Maximum Concentration Values (MCV) of these substances. Because the vast majority of electronics today use one or more of the EU RoHS directive exceptions and contain levels of some of these substances in excess of China RoHS MCV's, very few products will show this logo.
	Forest Stewardship Commission: This logo indicates that this product group comes from well managed forests and other controlled sources.
	PET/PETE logos: These logos indicate the type of plastic that is used to assist in recycling. The number in the middle indicates the type of plastic. 1 = Polyethylene Teraphthalate. This is the most common plastic found in packaging.
	5 = Polypropylene
	6 = Polystyrene

Toner Recycling

You can help to keep 1.8 kilogrammes (4 pounds) of plastic and corrugated cardboard out of landfill by recycling your Verbatim toner. Please click here to find out how.