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Environmental Efforts
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◆Eco-mind & Management
◆Eco Products
◆Eco-factories
◆Recycling |
[Environmental Vision]
As a global citizen, we will globally promote our endeavors for innovation while nurturing the potential of future
generations to pioneer next-generation products and services.
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 Provision of next-generation products and services
We will continue to make innovations for highly
competitive products and services that will contribute
to structuring a sustainable society and undertake the
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 Eco-mind and global environmental management
In our entire group, we will promote an eco-mind and
the power to transform it into action while establishing
and implementing a global environmental management
and evaluation system.
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 Collaboration with stakeholders
We will strengthen environmental communications
and actively endeavor to realize concrete partnerships
with our stakeholders while clarifying our objectives
and achievements.
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 Factories and offices with a high level of consideration
for the environment
We will thoroughly carry out activities for the prevention
of global warming and continue our efforts to promote
resource circulation, and the same time, work to
augment our operational bases with consideration for
the environment. |
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Eco-mind & Management |
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| As a company aiming to provide a comfortable living environment, Hitachi
Appliances is undertaking companywide activities that promote coexistence
with the environment as one major management issue. We are employing an
environmental management system based on ISO 14001 standards, in which
5 domestic and 10 overseas production bases have obtained certification.
Efforts directed toward cultivating "eco-minded" employees are also being
conducted by implementing environmental education through e-learning
via the Internet. |
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Environmental education as part of social
contribution activities
(Taiwan Hitachi Co., Ltd.) |
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Eco Products |
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| In order to minimize environmental loads throughout product/system life
cycles, we are expanding our range of environmentally friendly products
through adopting the Guideline for Assessing Design for the Environment
in which efforts are being carried out to achieve greater energy savings
and recyclabilitly as well as to reduce product chemical content (reduction
of packaging, etc.) Of particular note, we are aggressively promoting the
employment of a refrigerant with zero ozone depletion potential (ODP) in
products such as air conditioners, air conditioning systems and refrigerators
for household use. |
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| Product display at ENEX 2006 Exhibition |
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Eco-factories |
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| On the production side, in addition to ensuring the reduction of CO2
emissions and VOC (volatile organic compounds) through energy savings,
Hitachi is also focusing efforts on reducing environmental loads through
the risk management of chemical substances and waste reductions (zero
emissions), as well as reducing the use of cardboard and wood packaging
used for product packaging.
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| Internal environmental education is also
conducted through the e-learning system
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Recycling |
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Prior to the enactment of the Law for Recycling of Specified Kinds of
Home Appliances (commonly known as the Home Appliance Recycling
Law) in April 2001, Kanto Eco Recycle Co., Ltd. Was established within
the Tochigi Works in 1999 as a recycling plant to handle recycling
operations for four categories of used household electrical appliances
(TVs, refrigerators, washing machines, air conditioners). As the only
recycling plant in Japan integrated with a product manufacturing plant,
feedback from the know-how gained by the recycling plant is evaluated
and applied toward product development. Futhermore, we are promoting
recycling by processing collected plastic for reuse in product components
and materials.
In commercial air conditioning systems as well, used equipment is also
collected for refrigerant recovery and disassembly and disposal.
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| Kanto Eco Recycle co., Ltd. |
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