Melville, New York-based Canon Solutions America, a wholly owned subsidiary that serves as the sales arm of Canon U.S.A., announces its continued partnership with environmental group Trees for the Future, a nonprofit that plants millions of trees in ways that help end hunger and poverty for impoverished people throughout Sub-Saharan Africa.

The partnership, part of Canon Solutions America’s Eco Start Program, was launched out of  the company’s production print solutions division, which donated 214,350 trees in 2015. Since the start of the program more than one million trees have been planted.

The company says the partnership with Trees for the Future is part of an ongoing commitment it has to the environment and sustainability that runs across all aspects of its business. That commitment, it says, starts in the product development stage and continues all the way through the remainder of the product’s lifecycle, utilizing energy efficient manufacturing processes and eliminating hazardous substances from its products and services whenever possible.

The Eco Start Program is an extension of this commitment and was designed as a first step to helping customers achieve carbon-neutral production. In the case of its Trees for the Future partnership, Canon Solutions America plants trees every time an Océ production system is purchased in order to offset its CO2 emissions from energy consumption during its first year in operation.

Trees for the Future has helped thousands of communities across the world improve their livelihoods and environment by planting over 127 million trees, removing approximately two million tons of CO2 from the atmosphere each year. The nonprofit has earned a four star ranking—the highest possible rank—from the watchdog group Charity Navigator.