| Green Procurement and Purchasing Activities ("Upstream" Activities) |
A corporation purchases many different things
to procure raw materials for products or to undertake sales and administrative
activities. By giving priority to environmentally considerate materials
products when purchasing, environmental impact is reduced and support
of organizations promoting environmentally friendly activities is achieved.
Takara Shuzo's Activities
- Establishment of "Guidelines for Promoting the 3 R's" for containers and packaging, and efforts to reduce environmental impact of containers and packaging based on "Rules for Banned Materials", "Environmental Consideration during the Planning Stages", and "Gaining Understanding from Vendors". We also promote purchasing activities for the promotion of the 3 R's and request that our vendors used environmentally consideration as put forth by our guidelines. (3R's: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle)
- We sell some non-alcoholic drinks that are manufactured under consignment by other companies, under the product planning regulations of Takara. We request that these companies cooperate in our environmental policies to reduce impact on the environment. (About 12% of drink and food products are produced under consignment.)
- We are promoting green purchasing through the creation of a Green Purchasing Handbook for the purchase of sales promotion items and office supplies, based on ISO 14001.
* The eight offices promoting Green Purchasing spent 8.696 million yen in FY2000 for office supplies (about 45% of total office supply expenditure).
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