Clean Factories - Reducing Waste from Factories

The ET Manifest system uses a digital industrial waste management table (a manifest) and enables us to register and store data in the manifest in a database for integrated management. With the cooperation of waste disposers and collection and transportation contractors, and by using GPS, the system issues an electronic manifest^* that allows us to monitor the entire process of industrial waste disposal through transport data and visual representations. The system was introduced into all Panasonic's 92 manufacturing sites in Japan.

• * Electronic manifest: Ledger system for industrial waste management that uses digital data, operated by Japan Industrial Waste Technology Center, in compliance with the Waste Management Law.

ET Manifest system for industrial wastes

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• Reducing absolute waste generation
• Zero waste emissions
• Reducing total global waste arisings by 5%
• Total waste arisings
• Treatment and results of total waste arisings (Japan)
• Amount of in-house circulating resources(global)
• (Japan)Vigorous reduction in the use of cardboard packaging
• (Indonesia)Reusing wooden pallets for the transportation of refrigerators