Our Approach to a Sustainable Society

Goal 1

Poverty

• With the improvement of the efficiency and the profitability of our business, including those of the Resource Circulation Business, we will increase the income of the employees and improve their quality of life.

Goal 3

Health

• We prevent water and soil pollution and contamination by properly managing scrap materials at our plants which comply with safety and environmental standards.
• We are promoting new ways of working, including telecommuting and the flex-time scheme, as part of measures to prevent the expansion of COVID-19 to employees and the general public.

Goal 4Goal 10

Education/Equality

• Under government sponsored programs such as the pre-employment transition support program and the type B continuous employment support program, we provide an environment where persons with disabilities are able to acquire knowledge and skills, and support them to be continuously engaged in rewarding work.
• We run various employee training programs to improve their skills, including a business school for employees.

Goal 5Goal 8

Gender/Working Environment

• We have introduced systems for telecommuting and shortened working hours for permanent employees, and provide an environment that lets employees, including those raising children or performing family care, choose a working style that fits them best.
• We thoroughly implement measures to prevent work accidents in order to ensure the safety of employees.
• Envipro Holdings Inc. began recruiting new graduates in fiscal 2019. To build upon the current practice of hiring persons with disabilities, we will be offering worthy job opportunities for people of different backgrounds.

Goal 7

Energy

• We joined “RE100*¹” in July 2018, setting a goal to match 100% of the electricity consumed in our business activities with electricity generated from renewable sources by 2050. We have adopted renewable energy to power our factories, and promote the introduction of renewable-energy power systems such as the installation of solar panels on factory roofs.
• We promote international transactions of PKS (Palm Kernel Shell) by establishing container yards in South East Asia. We will contribute to increasing the supply of sustainable biomass fuel by expanding our involvement in the supply of wood pellets in the future.

*1 RE100 : a global initiative which brings together companies committed to using 100% renewable energy for the electricity consumed in their businesses.

Goals 9Goal 12

Technology Innovation/Consumption and Production

• We contribute to the circulation of limited resources and reducing waste by engaging in the recycling business to collect precious metals from metal scrap and waste, and the remanufacturing business to produce recycled raw materials.
  At the laboratories of ENVIPRO HOLDINGS Inc., we are working on the development of technology to recover the minor metals cobalt and nickel with high purity from waste lithium ion batteries through hydrometallurgy, and the enhancement of analysis accuracy, to contribute to the development of technology that will form the basis of a circular economy and a decarbonized society.

Goal 11

Community Development

• “Plaza Azumino” contributes to revitalizing the local community and the development of a sustainable community through recycling and creating employment: the collection and recycling of waste and items disposed by households, and the hiring of persons with disabilities at the factory.

Goal 13

Climate Change

Under the goal we have set of achieving carbon neutrality by2050,
we will work to reduce CO₂ emissions from our business activities.

• We contribute to the reduction of CO₂ emissions across supply chains through our engagement in the recycling and remanufacturing businesses, the mainstay of our company. Furthermore, we promote CO₂ emission reductions in the recycling and manufacturing processes by promoting the purchase of electricity generated from renewable sources and adopting a renewable-energy power system.
• We help companies reduce CO₂ emissions by providing consulting services for them to formulate their decarbonization strategies as well as solution services such as the adoption of renewable energy.
• In May 2019, we publicly endorsed the Recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). We will identify and evaluate opportunities and risks placed on our businesses by climate change, integrate these into our business strategies, and engage in appropriate information disclosure.

Goal 14

Marine Resources

• We contribute to preventing marine pollution caused by plastics by developing technologies which sort waste plastics and recycle them into pellets, and expanding the range of recycled raw material use.

Goal 17

Partnerships

• We contribute to promoting global resource circulation and the control of environmental pollution through the export of reusable products, including used cars from Japan and international transactions of resources.
• By joining the following initiatives, we acknowledge our engagement in environmental businesses and promote activities which will lead to the realization of a sustainable society.
  ・Japan Climate Leaders’ Partnership (JCLP)
  ・RE100
  ・CDP*² Scoring partner
  ・CLOMA（Clean Ocean Material Alliance）

*2 CDP: A global initiative concerning the disclosure of climate change-related information.