Japanese telecoms firm OKI Electric Industry is to start recycling its corporate uniforms with the help of Teijin Fibers and garment maker Chikuma to reduce its carbon footprint.

The telecoms firm said that by March 2009 it plans to recycle approximately 2000 uniforms, equivalent to a gross weight of 1.2 tons and it has calculated that this process will immediately reduce its CO2 footprint by 3.7 tons.

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