Brother is proud to support the United Nation’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals – the global plan to build a better world for people and our planet by 2030. They recognize that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth – all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests.
The Brother group will create social value globally through our businesses to contribute to the achievement of the SDGs based on the Brother group environmental policy.
The circular economy involves closing the materials loop so that waste materials don’t fall out at the end. It is about moving away from the traditional linear economy of make, use, dispose. It is about ‘designing out’ waste from the product life cycle, recovering and regenerating products and materials at the end of each service life. Our toner remanufacturing ensures that toner cartridges get a new life, contributing to a sustainable circular economy.
Our toner recycling schemes enable us to calculate how much CO2 our customers are saving through recycling their toner cartridges. In just one year, we saved 5,300 tonnes of CO2 through our toner recycling activities in the UK and Slovakia. Offering efficiency as well as quality, each remanufactured toner cartridge offers an average 36% reduction in CO2 emissions over a newly manufactured model.
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We have achieved carbon neutality status since 2020 and have commited to implementing carbon neutral plans to reduce emissions year on year.
The certification, carried out by independent expert DNV, includes the calculation on Brother Industries (U.K.) Ltd's scope 1 & 2 emissions, which includes the direct green house gas emissions associated with vehicles, and the company’s indirect emissions from sources such as electricity.
The DNV methology is based on BSI PAS 2060:2014 standard for carbon neutrality which is an internationally recognised standard. The company's carbon footprint was also independantly verified by DNV.
View StatementWe have been a fully accredited zero waste to landfill site (Valpak) since 2013. We are committed to reducing waste in all aspects of our business from our production lines to our offices to ensure that absolutely nothing goes to landfill
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The Brother Group Environmental Vision 2050 recognizes the key social issues of climate change, resource depletion, environmental pollution, and destruction of the ecosystem as business risks for the Brother Group and clearly states the group's continuous commitment toward solving these issues over the long term as a company that uses energy and resources to provide products using bio-based items such as paper, thread and cloth.