Environmental Activities

Panasonic leads the way...with ‘eco ideas’
With three ‘eco ideas’, we are striving to promote environmental activities in order to contribute to coexistence with the global environment.

‘eco ideas’ Special site

We introduce our initiatives for three ‘eco ideas’ in an easy-to-understand manner.

Environmental Sustainability Management

Pursuing contribution to ‘Coexistence with the global environment’, as one of our business visions, we're promoting environmental sustainability management based on ‘eco ideas’ Strategy and Environmental Action Plan.

• ‘eco ideas’ Strategy

‘eco ideas’ for Products

In addition to giving environmental consideration to materials and promoting recycling-oriented designs, we will accelerate the development of energy conservation technologies as our biggest target in implementing ‘eco ideas’ for Products. Based on this concept, we will increase the number of products with the No.1 energy efficiency performance in the industry, while eliminating products with low energy efficiency.

‘eco ideas’ for Manufacturing^*

We will improve productivity in all our manufacturing processes, including product planning, procurement, marketing, logistics, and recycling in addition to production activities at factories, thereby reducing CO₂ emissions in all the Group’s activities.

• * ‘Manufacturing’ stands for the entire business operation to deliver the value to the customers, such as R&D, procurement, product designing, manufacturing, sales, logistics, recycling, administration and others.

‘eco ideas’ for Everybody, Everywhere

We will expand ‘eco’ activities to local communities throughout the world jointly with not only our employees but all people in society. We are also working on two-way communication with stakeholders while disclosing information on our environmental activities in an easy-to-understand manner.

Environmental Data

Reporting environmental initiatives by each subsidiary and manufacturing site as well as by Panasonic Group as a whole. We also post back numbers of our environmental reports.

Reports Back Number

Scope of this Data File

Scope of data

Performance data are calculated based on the following definitions when no notes are indicated.

The fiscal year

April 1- March 31（Example：Fiscal year 2007 (April 1, 2006 - March 31, 2007)）

Organization covered

Panasonic (Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.) and its group subsidiaries inside and outside Japan (called “the Group” in this report)

Data covered

All manufacturing sites that have established Panasonic Environmental Management Systems (297 sites) (When companies included in the data target are changed, the data will be corrected in a retrospective manner.)

• Japanese