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Disclosing the result of the Green-Ink Accounting
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| Takara Shuzo regards business activities fundamentally impact the environment. We take these facts seriously and believe that it is our corporate responsibility to reduce the burden on the environment and undertake natural conservation activities and voluntary or other social contribution activities. The results of these activities have been included in our Green-Ink Accounting in ECO to report our performance. |
As the results of economic activities are expressed in black-ink or red-ink, we thought then the results of environmental activities are expressed in green-ink, a term that conveys an image of green representing the environment. Starting from 1998, we released the results of our environmental activities in Green-Ink Accounting every year. From 2005, we will make this accounting serve as an indicator not only of our environmental activities, but also of our overall CSR activities in satisfying our stakeholders. |
| What is Green-Ink Accounting? |
Green-Ink Accounting selects important categories that indicate Takara Shuzo’s environmental impact and efforts and social activities. The degree of improvement (results) in these categories is expressed as an integrated indicator called an ECO. Takara Shuzo discloses the results of accounting related to our environmental and social activities in ECO to all our stakeholders. We also use this indicator to improve our management. The reason why we express the results of our activities with this single indicator is to show whether the results of individual activities with different degrees of importance, and expressed in different units, are generally beneficial or detrimental to the environment, in an easy-to-understand manner.
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| Revised Points for the Third Period |
Categories covered by Green-Ink Accounting will be reexamined according to the needs and problems of the times, and their importance will also be reviewed. The following points have been changed in our Third-Term Green-Ink Accounting covering the period from fiscal 2005 to fiscal 2007. |
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Communications with the general public have been facilitated by incorporating the opinions of members of the Environment Committee of the Nippon Association of Consumer Specialists and the opinions resulting from polls taken on the Internet. |
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As a first step toward CSR accounting, two categories related to social contribution have been added. |
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Attaching importance to global warming, CO2 emissions have been separated into Production CO2 and Distribution CO2. |
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The percentage of waste recycled during the production process has reached a high level; therefore, we included a reduction in the gross amount from this year. |
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The mid-term management goals, the targets relating to the ISO 14001 and Green-Ink Accounting categories have been interlinked and integrated into a single goal. |
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