Environmental Accounting
JSR and its domestic Group companies calculate environmental protection costs and associated benefits in accordance with the Ministry of the Environment's “Environmental Accounting Guidelines (2005 Edition)” and the Japan Chemical Industry Association's “Environmental Accounting Guidelines for Chemical Companies (November 2003).
Hereafter, the results compiled as JSR (Head Office, Yokkaichi Plant, Tsukuba Research Laboratories, and JSR BiRD) are summarized in “1. Environmental Protection Costs” and “2. Economic Effects of Environmental Protection Measures,” and the results including production sites of domestic Group companies are summarized in “3. Consolidated Accounting.”
1.Environmental Protection Costs*1
Classification | Content of main activities | Investment | Expense | |||
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FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2022 | FY2023 | |||
(1) Business area costs | 54 | 122 | 347 | 297 | ||
Breakdown | (1)-1 Pollution prevention costs |
Investments: Water pollution prevention facilities, etc. Expenses: Water pollution prevention costs, etc. |
23 | 55 | 78 | 65 |
(1)-2 Global environmental protection costs |
Investments: Switch to LED lighting and upgrade to energy efficient water heating equipment, etc. Expenses: Costs for prevention of global warming and energy efficiency, etc. |
31 | 67 | 14 | 10 | |
(1)-3 Resource circulation costs |
Investments: None Expenses: Industrial waste recycling, disposal, etc. |
0 | 0 | 255 | 222 | |
(2) Upstream/downstream costs | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
(3) Management activity costs | Expenses: Environmental management system maintenance and operational costs, information disclosure, labor costs for environmental conservation measures, etc. | 0 | 0 | 200 | 209 | |
(4) Research and development costs | Expenses: Development of environmentally friendly products, etc. | 0 | 0 | 1,114 | 1,148 | |
(5) Social activity costs | Expenses: Funding of environmental protection organizations, etc. | 0 | 0 | 23 | 7 | |
(6) Environmental pollution response costs | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Total | 54 | 122 | 1,684 | 1,661 |
*1 Mainly calculated on an actual basis. Some expense items are calculated under certain assumptions.
2.Economical Effects of Environmental Protection Measures*2
Effect (for one year) | Benefit | ||
---|---|---|---|
FY2022 | FY2023 | ||
Cost reduction | By saving energy | 9 | 5 |
*2 The above figures are actual effects and do not include risk aversion effects or deemed effects converted into monetary values.
3.Consolidated Accounting*3
Investments | Expense | Benefit | ||||
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FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2022 | FY2023 | |
JSR | 54 | 122 | 1,684 | 1,661 | 9 | 5 |
Domestic Group companies total |
193 | 496 | 1,878 | 1,952 | 34 | 41 |
Total* | 247 | 618 | 3,563 | 3,614 | 43 | 46 |
* 3 Production bases of eight domestic Group companies
JSR Micro Kyushu Corporation, JSR ARTON Manufacturing Corporation, Emulsion Technology Co., Ltd., Techno-UMG Co., Ltd., Japan Coloring Co., Ltd., UJK Co., Ltd.,
Medical & Biological Laboratories Co., Ltd., and JSR Logistics & Customer Center Co., Ltd.