Waste Reduction
Waste Management Initiatives
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 99.7% (FY2021), 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
- ・Achieve a recycling rate of at least 90% by FY2025 (Global)
■Reduction of the use of plastics
- ・Monitor and reduce plastic consumption
Total waste and recycling rates (FY2019-2021)
Total waste and recycling rates (FY2012-2021)
2012 |
2013 |
2014 |
2015 |
2016 |
2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total waste (Thousand tons) | ||||||||||
Japan |
2.1 |
1.9 |
1.6 |
1.4 |
1.3 |
1.5 |
1.3 |
1.4 |
1.1 |
1.2 |
Overseas |
0.5 |
1.2 |
0.9 |
0.8 |
0.7 |
0.6 |
0.6 |
0.6 |
0.3 |
0.3 |
Global |
2.6 |
3.1 |
2.5 |
2.2 |
2.0 |
2.1 |
1.9 |
2.0 |
1.4 |
1.5 |
| Recycling rates (%) | ||||||||||
Japan |
99.1 |
99.8 |
99.9 |
99.9 |
99.9 |
99.9 |
99.9 |
99.7 |
99.8 |
99.7 |
Overseas |
64.6 |
64.6 |
63.4 |
72.3 |
53.8 |
54.8 |
48.0 |
55.8 |
57.0 |
65.6 |
Global |
92.5 |
85.9 |
86.6 |
89.6 |
84.7 |
87.4 |
82.6 |
85.9 |
89.3 |
92.0 |
Coverage: refer to “Total waste by business location”
Note：The data of four former Kenwood overseas business locations are not included in the figures for FY2012, which are instead based on the performances of the first full fiscal year (FY2012) after the company name change to JVCKENWOOD.
Emissions per unit of sales (FY2012-2021)
(1,000 tons/100 million yen)
| 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Global |
0.85 |
0.97 |
0.85 |
0.76 |
0.68 |
0.71 |
0.62 |
0.70 |
0.51 |
0.53 |
Coverage: refer to “Total waste by business location”
Note：The data of four former Kenwood overseas business locations are not included in the figures for FY2012, which are instead based on the performances of the first full fiscal year (FY2012) after the company name change to JVCKENWOOD.
Total waste by business location (FY2018-2021)
Unit: t
Japan/ overseas |
Company name and location | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fiscal year target | 2,443 | 2,417 |
2,391 | - | |
| Overall total | 1,920 | 2,028 | 1,406 | 1,499 | |
| Japan | Head Office & Yokohama Business Center | 340 | 327 |
265 | 270 |
| Hachioji Business Center | 214 | 124 |
63 | 65 | |
| Hakusan Business Center | 55 | 55 |
38 | 36 | |
| Kurihama Business Center | 43 | 61 |
38 | 86 | |
| Yokosuka Business Center | 25 | 7 |
31 | 23 | |
| JVCKENWOOD Yamagata | 23 | 25 |
23 | 20 | |
| JVCKENWOOD Nagano | 155 | 145 |
84 | 129 | |
| JVCKENWOOD Nagaoka | 86 | 92 |
96 | 96 | |
| JVCKENWOOD Creative Media | 283 | 342 |
390 | 406 | |
| JVCKENWOOD Victor Entertainment | 53 | 53 |
31 | 31 | |
| JVCKENWOOD Video Tech | 3 | 2 |
1 | 1 | |
| JVCKENWOOD Design | 0 | 0 |
0 | 0 | |
| Other affiliate companies | - | 161 |
- | - | |
| Malaysia | JVCKENWOOD Electronics Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. | 86 | 101 |
48 | 56 |
| Thailand | JVCKENWOOD Electronics (Thailand) Co., Ltd. | 9 | 15 |
40 | 62 |
| JVCKENWOOD Optical Electronics (Thailand) Co., Ltd. | 65 | 79 |
62 | 63 | |
| Indonesia | PT JVCKENWOOD Electronics Indonesia | 176 | 173 |
123 | 110 |
| People’s Republic of China | Shanghai Kenwood Electronics Co., Ltd. | 205 | 180 |
74 | 46 |
| Singapore | JVCKENWOOD Technologies Singapore Pte. Ltd. | 100 | 86 |
0 | 0 |
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.
For more information, see the website of the City of Yokohama.
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.
Participating in external initiatives
We support the Ministry of the Environment’s Plastics Smart Campaign and Kanagawa Prefecture’s Kanagawa No Plastic Waste Declaration. Designed to encourage voluntary initiatives that address the increasingly serious problem of ocean plastic pollution, the Plastics Smart Campaign spreads the word widely on various initiatives being implemented in Japan by companies, industry groups, local governments, etc. The Kanagawa No Plastic Waste Declaration is a project launched by Kanagawa Prefecture in conjunction with this campaign as part of its efforts to achieve the SDGs. It aims to reduce non-recyclable plastic waste to zero, with a particular focus on microplastics, among other marine pollution issues. In promoting sustainability, we are working to achieve the SDGs across economic, social, and environmental dimensions, and have joined the project as a company operating in the prefecture that is implementing specific initiatives such as making environmentally friendly products and raising awareness among its employees.
Coverage: refer to “Total waste by business location”