The JVCKENWOOD Group is actively engaged in 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 99.7%, and the waste generation inside and outside Japan also declined. Our goal had been to reduce waste generation by 1% from the FY2012 level annually through FY2020. 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

• ・Target1: Achieve a recycling rate of at least 90% by FY2025 (Global)

■Reduction of the use of plastics

• ・ Target2: Monitor and reduce plastic consumption

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 FY2020, approximately 90% of the waste collected from the business center was recycled. 

JVCKENWOOD Creative Media Corporation uses a waste plastic compressor to reduce the volume of waste and the frequency of waste collection.

This has reduced not only exhaust gas emissions and fuel consumption of waste collection trucks but also waste management costs. 

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 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.