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Expenses for Environmental Preservation and Reductions in Impacts

FY 1999 Comparative Effectiveness Environmental Accounting
The main objective of TaKaRa's environmental accounting is to identify how much money is spent on environmental activities and how much environmental impact is reduced accordingly. To that end we carried out our analysis of the 11 categories of environmental impact reduction used in green ink accounting, and their associated costs. Because a weight is assigned to each of the environmental impact categories in green ink accounting, it is possible to compare the cost effectiveness of the environmental impact reduction of each activity category.

Analysis of the FY 1999 Environmental Accounts
  1. About 57% of the 1,182.98 million yen in total environmental impact reduction costs, 674.344 million yen, was used for container and packaging recycling. This emphasizes the importance the container and packaging recycle problem presents to the alcohol and food industries.

  2. In the chart, there are 10 categories of environmental impact reduction activities that cover raw material procurement to factory wastes. These activities are relatively cost-effective and are company policies to deal with in-house generated environmental problems. In contrast, the effects of investments aimed at the container and packaging recycling problem are not as straightforward. We found that a 1 ECO improvement in post-use container and packaging disposal was more expensive than an ECO of improvement in any other category -- at 19.085 million yen, nearly 19 times as expensive as reducing similar solid waste in the factory.

  3. From the above item, we can see that container and packaging recycling is not an activity of corporations alone, but requires that corporations, government and citizens cooperate effectively. For this reason, it is important to publicize information on container and packaging recycling.

  4. The average cost for 1 ECO in FY99 "Environmental Impact Reduction Green Ink" was 47.319 million yen. By comparing these costs year to year, we can find the relative effectiveness of the total cost of environmental activities.


* FY 1999 Comparative Effectiveness Environmental Accounting
(Environmental Impact Reduction Green Ink data)
Environmental Impact Reduction Green Ink data
Social Contributions Green Ink data
Social Contributions Green Ink data

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