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Working with Customers to Preserve the Environment
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| Takara Shuzo takes the impact of its business activities on the environment into account. We also pay attention to the burden our products impose on the environment throughout the product life cycles. To this end, we engage in the development of eco-products using lighter containers and adopting sales methods that do not use containers. |
| Reducing the Burden on the Environment After Consumption |
To reduce the burden on the environment, we need to implement measures throughout the lifecycle of our products. Our products are offered in various containers such as glass bottles, PET bottles, cans and drink boxes. After consumption, these containers become waste. We are keenly aware of the impact of these empty containers on the environment and endeavor to reduce the burden in cooperation with client companies and customers by (1) selling in bulk, (2) using lighter containers and packages, (3) promoting the use of returnable and reuseable bottles, and (4) adopting container designs that can easily be recycled. |
 We live an era where we consume large volumes of resources and energy to save on manpower and working hours in preference to efficiency. Bulk selling is a sales system that works in the opposite direction based on the concept of reducing resources and energy consumption by investing manpower and time.
Wishing to add the concept of “refuse” (to refuse to buy items that will become waste) to the 3Rs (reduce, reuse and recycle), Takara Shuzo started bulk selling of shochu in cooperation with JCLU Urashimaya Corporation (Hachioji, Tokyo) in 1998. We deliver 1-kiloliter or 200-liter special tanks of shochu to retail stores directly from our factory. Customers bring their own bottles and fill these with only as much product as they require.
Currently, 220 outlets participate in this effort nationwide. As of March 2005, approximately 2.81 million 2.7-liter PET bottles and 470,000 cardboard boxes were saved. |
*voice#2 [a staff in charge]
*voice#3 [a retailer] |
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