Industrial Waste Initiatives

Waste separation and recovery
(Yokkaichi Plant)

Since FY2001 (April 1, 2000 to March 31, 2001), JSR has been implementing its goal of "zero waste" ¹ in activities that include prevention of waste materials and searches for recycling locations at all plants. In the period from FY2004 to FY2009, we made ongoing efforts that have enabled us to reach our goals in zero waste activities. About 80% of the total volume of generated waste materials is taken up by surplus sludge resulting from activated sludge treatment of wastewater and by coal ash generated in the coal boilers used for on-site power generation. Surplus sludge is recycled together with coal ash for use as cement materials. We are also promoting recycling of bottles, cans, drums and paper as well as fluorescent lamps, dry cell batteries and organic waste, in addition to using waste oils and other materials, as fuels. The final landfill volume in FY2009 came to 23 tons/year. This is a slight increase compared to FY2004 levels, when we reached our zero waste goals. This is due to the complete processing of gaskets containing asbestos that had been kept in storage at plants. In the future, we will strive to implement ongoing zero waste operations by further continuing our search for recycling locations, among other efforts.

1  Zero waste : The goal is to reduce the volume of final off-site waste buried at third-party landfills to less than 0.1% of the volume of waste generated

Promoting 3R to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle Packaging Materials

JSR has always been serious about environmental measures in the distribution and logistics workflow. Therefore, the company proclaims and promotes 3R to effectively utilize waste-free packaging materials and packaging containers.
JSR will actively engage in the following 3R activities for packing materials to promote recycling and effective use of resources.

Reduce:

Eliminating use of external cardboard boxes due to changes in packing container specifications, increasing the foaming ratio of foamed polystyrene; reducing volumes and handling larger sizes of liquid transport containers.

Reuse:

Preventing breakage of steel box pallets used as the packing containers for synthetic rubber.

Recycle:

Searching for recycling locations for plastic bottles and polyethylene bags that are conventionally incinerated.

Water Consumption

JSR uses industrial water, groundwater³, tap water and seawater (cooling water) as water resources. The water resource usage volume for FY2009 was approximately 16,000 thousand cubic meters, which was basically the same level as the previous fiscal year. We effectively utilize about 22% of our water by calculating it through the work process at each plant.

3  Groundwater is not used at the Yokkaichi Plant and Chiba Plant

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