Waste and Plastic Reduction

Waste and Plastic Management Goals

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 99.9% (FY2022), 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 FY2025. 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 and recycling.

■Improvement of the waste recycling rate

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

Reduction of waste emissions

  • ・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)
     

Waste and Plastics Reduction Performance

Reduction of waste emissions (per unit of net sales) and recycling rates (FY2019-2022)

Coverage: refer to “Total waste by business location”


Total waste and recycling rates (FY2019-2022)

 

FY2019

FY2020

FY2021

FY2022
Total waste (Thousand tons)

Japan

1.4

1.1

1.2

1.5

Overseas

0.6

0.3

0.3

0.4

Global

2.0

1.4

1.5

1.9
Recycling rate (%)

Japan

99.7

99.8

99.7

99.9

Overseas

55.8

57.0

65.6

51.5

Global

85.9

89.3

92.0

90.9

Coverage: refer to “Total waste by business location”


Emissions per unit of sales (FY2019-2022)                                       

1,000 tons/100 million yen

  FY2019 FY2020 FY2021 FY2022

Global

0.70

0.51

0.53

0.56

Coverage: refer to “Total waste by business location”


Total waste by business location (FY2019-2022)

 Unit: t

Japan/

overseas

Company name and location 2019 2020 2021 2022
Japan Head Office & Yokohama Business Center

327

265 270 316
Hachioji Business Center

124

63 65 77
Hakusan Business Center

55

38 36 82
Kurihama Business Center

61

38 86 172
Yokosuka Business Center

7

31 23 9
JVCKENWOOD Yamagata

25

23 20 21
JVCKENWOOD Nagano

145

84 129 376
JVCKENWOOD Nagaoka

92

96 96 142
JVCKENWOOD Creative Media

342

390 406 304
JVCKENWOOD Victor Entertainment

53

31 31 33
JVCKENWOOD Video Tech

2

1 1 2
JVCKENWOOD Design

0

0 0 0
Other affiliate companies

161

- - -
Malaysia JVCKENWOOD Electronics Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. 

101

48 56 63
Thailand JVCKENWOOD Electronics (Thailand) Co., Ltd. 

15

40 62 -
JVCKENWOOD Optical Electronics (Thailand) Co., Ltd. 

79

62 63 57
Indonesia PT  JVCKENWOOD Electronics Indonesia

173

123 110 128
People’s Republic of China Shanghai Kenwood Electronics Co., Ltd. 

180

74 46 53
Singapore JVCKENWOOD Technologies Singapore Pte. Ltd. 

100

86 0 49
Overall total 2,028 1,406 1,499 1,883

Plastic consumption volume for containers and packaging(FY2019-2022)

Unit:Thousand tons

  FY2019 FY2020 FY2021 FY2022

Global

146.0

146.3

127.8

101.7

Improvement of waste recycling rate

Waste recycling (Hakusan Business Center)

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 FY2021, approximately 90% of the waste collected from the business center was recycled. 


Waste recycling bins (on each floor)

Waste recycling containers (for valuables, etc.)


Recognized as one of the excellent business facilities focusing on 3Rs* by the City of Yokohama for 11 consecutive years

JVCKENWOOD's Head Office, Yokohama Business Center and Hakusan Business Center have been recognized for the past 11 consecutive years by the city of Yokohama for excellence in 3R activities. The Head Office and Yokohama Business Center successfully reduced waste by 912 kg by carefully dismantling 1,508 products by hand and sorting the components to reclaim their value, and by drying tree trimmings and grass cuttings before disposal. The Hakusan Business Center has a strict, detailed waste sorting program that uses 16 types of collection receptacle. It also has strong environmental education programs for its employees, and each day the employee cafeteria forecasts demand based on the number of employees reporting for work to help reduce food losses.

*This is an award that the City of Yokohama recognizes business facilities or a group of business facilities that have made notable achievements in sorting out business-related waste materials, as well as in 3Rs (reduce, reuse, and recycle) activities, as leading business facilities in 3Rs in order to acknowledge their day-to-day efforts and have them serve as a model for other business facilities. 



Reduction of waste emissions

Efforts to reduce office paper consumption

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.


At the paperless Board of Directors meeting

Meeting room at Hakusan Business Center


Initiatives to reduce waste at domestic order booking centers

JVCKENWOOD's order booking centers have moved to remote operations for fax orders. The purpose of this project is to increase awareness of the value of recycled materials, and by switching to paperless operations for the entire fax ordering process, it also saves on costs for paper, copy machine maintenance, and storage. The server can be accessed from anywhere with the proper telecommunications environment and is expected to improve efficiency by facilitating responses to pandemics and other unforeseen disasters, and avoiding the backups that can be experienced when order booking is concentrated at a single location.


Reduction of the use of plastics

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.

Initiatives to reduce the use of plastic materials related to the DRV-EM4800 electronic mirror dashcam

We are reducing the amount of plastic materials used in the DRV-EM4800 electronic mirror dashcam for the domestic aftermarket.
In the past, card cases and adapters were bundled with the micro SD cards. However, the DRV-EM4800 electronic mirror dashcam, which was released for the domestic aftermarket at the end of September 2023, is shipped with the micro SD card inserted into the mirror main body of the mirror, eliminating the bundling and reducing the use of plastic materials. This thereby contributes to the reduction of CO₂ emissions and saves energy.

Plastic micro SD card case (left) no longer included in the package

Plastic micro SD card adapter (right) no longer included in the package

Participating in external initiatives