【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.
- ・Before fiscal 2013: Actuals in 12 months from April to March of the following year
- ・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: ¥31.9 billion
●Total research and development expenses for the current period: ¥14.1 billion
Costs for Environmental Conservation (Millions of yen)
| Category | Investments | Cost | Principal activities | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Costs within the production sites | Pollution prevention costs | 1,190 | 1,413 | Operating cost of environmental facilities, measures to prevent emissions of toxic chemical substances |
| Global environmental conservation costs | 77 | 25 | Cost of energy conservation activities | |
| Resource recycling costs | 548 | 748 | Recycling costs and waste processing costs | |
| Total | 1,815 | 2,186 | ||
| Upstream and downstream costs | - | 99 | Recycling and reuse of packaging materials, improvement of container packaging | |
| Administrative costs | 73 | 116 | ISO 14001, environmental measurements, environmental education | |
| Research and development costs | 195 | 209 | Development of environmentally friendly products | |
| Social activity costs | - | 0 | Afforestation, beautification, provision of environmental information to host community residents | |
| Environmental damage costs | - | - | ||
| Total | 2,084 | 2,609 | ||
- Note: Environmental damage costs are included in pollution prevention costs.
Environmental Conservation Effects (Kuraray)
| Category | Unit | FY2018 | FY2019(1) | FY2020(2) | Change [(2)-(1)] |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pollution prevention activities | SOx emissions | Tons | 350 | 550 | 280 | ▲ 270 |
| NOx emissions | Tons | 1,779 | 1,770 | 1,623 | ▲ 147 | |
| Soot and dust emissions | Tons | 31 | 31 | 32 | 1 | |
| PRTR substance emissions | Tons | 902 | 855 | 719 | ▲ 136 | |
| COD load | Tons | 554 | 512 | 516 | 4 | |
| Global environment conservation activities | GHG emissions | 1,000 tons-CO2 | 1,310 | 1,301 | 1,221 | ▲ 80 |
| Energy consumption | 1,000 kL (crude oil equivalent) |
433 | 431 | 402 | ▲ 29 | |
| Resource recycling activities | Unutilized externally processed industrial waste | Tons | 875 | 1,735 | 1,772 | 37 |
| Rate of effective waste utilization | % | 97.8 | 97.1 | 97.2 | 0.1 | |
| Water resource usage* | million m³ | 72 | 71 | 71 | 0 | |
| Total discharge of wastewater* | million m³ | 65 | 61 | 65 | 4 | |
- * Excluding seawater
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Environmental data
- (1) Basis for environmental accounting calculations
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- Reporting period: January 1, 2020 to December 31, 2020
- Scope covered: Kuraray
- (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.
