The JVCKENWOOD Group is actively engaged in initiatives such as waste reduction, diligently disassembling and sorting waste generated in the production processes and reusing it within the company or turning it into valuables. As a result, the Group’s business in Japan has achieved a recycling rate of 96.6% (FY2024), and the waste generation inside and outside Japan also declined. Our goal had been to reduce waste generation by 1% from the FY2019 level annually through FY2030. We have already achieved this goal and established the following targets in order to move forward with zero emissions globally and proceed further with reduction of total waste generation and recycling.

■Reduction of waste (waste recycling rate)

• ・Maintain the recycling rate of at least 90% (total, global)
   

■Reduction in waste generation

• ・11% reduction from FY2019 levels by FY2030 (per unit of net sales, global)
   

■Reduction of plastics

• ・Plastic consumption volume for containers and packaging 35.9% reduction from FY2019 levels by FY2030(total, global)
   

The Hakusan Business Center works to reduce and recycle waste in accordance with instructions from the local government. All recyclable waste is recycled by an outsourced waste management provider. Solid waste generated from the business center is collected in recycling bins which are separated into 16 categories and then further sorted into 35 sub-categories in accordance with the waste sorting rules of the business center before it is delivered to the outsourced waste management provider. In FY2024, approximately 90% of the waste collected from the business center was recycled. 

As part of the efforts to promote environmentally friendly corporate management, the JVCKENWOOD Group has installed large monitors and projectors in meeting rooms to improve the quality of meetings and reduce paper usage for meetings and other purposes to protect resources and reduce waste.

Moreover, our management teams take the initiative to promote paperless meetings by introducing tablets and IT devices at Board of Directors meetings, thereby reducing paper-based meeting materials. Going forward, we will continue working to reform the meeting process to enhance productivity and reduce environmental loads.

There is a growing demand in society for resource recycling related to plastics following the enforcement of the Plastic Resource Circulation Act from April 2022. The JVCKENWOOD Group is also taking various measures to reduce the amount of plastic used in its products and packaging materials.

We have set a target of reducing plastic consumption volume for containers and packaging by 35.9% by 2030 compared with FY2019, and as of FY2024, we had achieved a 49.9% reduction compared with FY2019.