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Manufacturing affiliate Ricoh Asia Industry
(Shenzhen) Ltd. (RAI) has been regularly
removing an exotic plant called Mikania
micrantha from a park near its factory since
2004. Mikania micrantha is sometimes referred
to as a killer plant because of its characteristic
of tangling up in plants, depriving the plants
of water and sunshine and killing them. Many
parks in Shenzhen, where the company is
located, have been damaged because of
Mikania micrantha. Roughly 20 RAI employees
began removing the plant in 2004 in order to
contribute to the environmental preservation
of the local community. By 2008, the activity
had become a huge project conducted jointly
with the Ricoh Group's manufacturing and
sales firms located in South China. Roughly |
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