Quantitative Evaluation of Environmental Conservation
With the aim of facilitating the transparency of our activities and the efficiency of our environmental conservation efforts, since FY2002, Polyplastics has carried out environmental accounting focused on quantitatively ascertaining and assessing environmental conservation-related investment, expenses, and outcomes.
Our environmental accounting is conducted in accordance with the “Environmental Accounting Guidelines 2005” issued by the Japanese Ministry of the Environment.
Initiative details and environmental conservation results can be found on the relevant pages linked to in the table below.
“Investments” is the actual value of environmental conservation-related capital investment for the fiscal year.
“Costs” is the actual value of environmental conservation-related depreciation, running costs, labor costs, etc.
Environmental Conservation Costs
(Unit: Millions of yen)
Category
Main Activities
Investments
Costs
On-site costs
Pollution control costs
Reduction of air/water pollution and emissions of chemical substances into the environment (Related page)
53
1,288
Global environmental conservation costs
Energy-saving (global warming prevention)
9
65
Resource recycling costs
Reduction, separation, and recycling of industrial waste (Related page)
0
428
Subtotal
62
1,781
Upstream/downstream costs
Assessment of environmentally hazardous substances in products; information provision; green purchasing (Related page)
0
61
Administrative activities costs
Labor costs for environmental management; ISO 14001 operation and maintenance costs; environmental training costs; environmental impact reduction costs
0
30
Research and development costs
Research and development related to environmental impact reduction in materials development and processes
0
52
Community activities costs
Greening, beautification, and other environmental improvement activities, community event participation, and membership fees
*Note: Taiwan and Malaysia are included from FY2004, China (PTM) from FY2008, China (PNL) from FY2014, and Germany from FY2015.
Data is from January to December up to FY2012, January to March of the same year for FY2013, and April to March of the following year for FY2014 onward.
Environmental Conservation Activities as a Percentage of Business Activities
(Unit: %)
Category
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
Environmental conservation-focused R&D costs as a percentage of total R&D costs
5.8
1.8
2.4
1.7
3.2
3.1
2.3
2.1
1.3
1.6
Environmental conservation-focused investment as a percentage of total capital investment
