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1. Environmental Activities & Performance (5)

Environment-related Investment and Environment Accounting
Environment-related Investment
Measures are being promoted on all fronts to reduce the environmental impact, with several billion yen invested annually in environmental facilities and more than 20 billion yen allocated each year to maintenance and management costs of plant and equipment. During 2007, additional capital investment was directed to installing dust-control nets and similar measures in response to the emissions problem. Energy-saving investment such as simplifying production processes for greater efficiency and recovering waste heat was also made.
Environmental Measures: Total Investment
Environmental Measures: Total Investment
Environmental Measures: Total Maintenance and Management Costs
Environmental Measures: Total Maintenance and Management Costs
Energy-saving Measures: Total Investment
Energy-saving Measures: Total Investment
Environment Accounting
Capital investment for 2007 totaled approximately 13.6 billion yen and expenditure reached about 39.5 billion yen. Of this expenditure, 49% went to air pollution prevention, 16% went to water pollution prevention, about 23% went to waste and byproduct processing. Also, lowering environmental impact accounted for approximately 6% of R&D expenditure, or 2.4 billion yen.
Environment-related Investment and Costs
(unit: billion yen)
Category Capital expenditure Costs
Environment protection measures Atmospheric pollution prevention
111.8
193.2
Water pollution prevention
11.7
61.6
Global environment conservation* Energy-saving measures
11.8
-
Recycling Byproducts, waste processing
0.2
89.7
Monitoring and control EMS formulation, maintenance, environmental education
-
0.1
Monitoring and recording environmental impact
4.9
Personnel costs for environmental measures
15.8
R&D Eco products, lowering environment impact of manufacturing processes
-
24.0
Community activities Planting, support for environmental groups, publicity
-
0.8
Others SOx levies
-
5.2
  TOTAL
135.5
395.3
* As the cost for global environment conservation is already included in operations, only the investment amount is posted.