【Notes】As a result of the change in months in each fiscal year, the environmental data and information contained in this report including graphs are as follows.
- ・Fiscal 2014: Actuals for 9 months from April to December + Actuals for January to March 2014 (or estimated value) [Partially overlaps with fiscal 2013]
- ・After fiscal 2015 : Actuals for 12 months from January to December
Environmental Accounting
●Total investments for the current period: ¥50.0 billion
●Total research and development expenses for the current period: ¥14.4 billion
Costs for Environmental Conservation (Millions of yen)
| Category | Investments | Cost | Principal activities | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Costs within the sites | Pollution prevention costs | 923 | 1,475 | Operating cost of environmental facilities, measures to prevent emissions of toxic chemical substances |
| Global environmental preservation costs | 86 | 77 | Cost of energy conservation activities | |
| Resource recycling costs | 415 | 808 | Recycling costs and waste processing costs | |
| Total | 1,424 | 2,360 | ||
| Upstream and downstream costs | - | 105 | Recycling and reuse of packaging materials, improvement of container packaging | |
| Administrative costs | 97 | 91 | ISO 14001, environmental measurements, environmental education | |
| Research and development costs | 154 | 422 | Development of environmentally friendly products | |
| Social activity costs | - | 0 | Afforestation, beautification, provision of environmental information to host community residents | |
| Environmental damage costs | - | - | ||
| Total | 1,674 | 2,978 | ||
- Note: Environmental damage costs are included in pollution prevention costs.
Environmental Preservation Effects (Kuraray)
| Category | Unit | FY2017 | FY2018(1) | FY2019(2) | Change [(2)-(1)] |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pollution prevention activities | SOx emissions | Tons | 407 | 350 | 550 | 200 |
| NOx emissions | Tons | 1,855 | 1,779 | 1,770 | (9) | |
| Soot and dust emissions | Tons | 33 | 31 | 31 | 0 | |
| PRTR substance emissions | Tons | 976 | 902 | 855 | (47) | |
| COD load | Tons | 514 | 554 | 512 | (42) | |
| Global environment preservation activities | GHG emissions | 1,000 tons-CO2 | 1,319 | 1,310 | 1,301 | (9) |
| Energy consumption | 1,000 kL (crude oil equivalent) |
434 | 433 | 431 | (2) | |
| Resource recycling activities | Unutilized externally processed industrial waste | Tons | 849 | 875 | 1,735 | 860 |
| Rate of effective waste utilization | % | 96.7 | 97.8 | 97.1 | (1) | |
| Water resource usage* | million m³ | 71 | 72 | 71 | (1) | |
| Total discharge of wastewater* | million m³ | 64 | 65 | 61 | (4) | |
- * Excluding seawater
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Environmental data
- (1) Basis for environmental accounting calculations
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- Reporting period: January 1, 2019 to December 31, 2019
- Scope covered: Kuraray sites
- (2) Environmental conservation cost calculation criteria
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- Depreciation: Straight-line method
- Standard for allocating costs: In principle, 100% of costs are allocated to individual environmental conservation items. However, a portion of costs is allocated on a pro-rata basis.
- (3) Standard for calculating environmental conservation effects
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- Effects are calculated in a simple comparison with the total environmental load of the previous fiscal year and are not adjusted for production volume.
- (4) Standard for calculating economic effects (benefits) of environmental conservation measures.
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- Although material effects such as income from recycling are known, benefits are deducted from environmental conservation costs.
