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Environmental Data File - Clean Factories

Environmentally-Conscious Factories
Factory Energy Conservation
Chemical Substance Management at Factories
Reducing Waste from Factories
Effective Use of Water Resources
Management of the Factory Environment
Initiatives at Offices

Environmentally-Conscious Factories

Our concept of Clean Factories

Concept

78% of factories accredited as CFs

Activity

Superior CFs

Activity

Superior CFs in fiscal 2007 [PanaHome Corporation's Head Office Plant]

Case

Superior CFs in fiscal 2007 [Panasonic Wanbao Compressor (Guangzhou) Co., Ltd.]

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Factory Energy Conservation

Reducing global CO₂ emissions through our Three-Year Plan

Concept

Promoting energy conservation initiatives in the device segment and in China

Activity

Promoting factory energy conservation as CDM projects

Activity

Visualizing energy losses

Activity

Use of Co-generation system (CGS)

Activity

CO₂ emissions per basic unit

Data

Energy consumption

Data

Composition of GHG emissions (tons- CO₂)

Data

Effects on power generation by co-generation systems (CGS)

Data

(Japan) Achieving a 15% reduction by careful management of factory facilities

Case

(China) Achieving a 5% reduction in the use of steam by using waste heat

Case

(Malaysia) Expansion of CDM initiatives in Southeast Asia and China

Case

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Chemical Substance Management at Factories

Management of chemical substances according to three ranks

Concept

Reduction of Key Reduction-Target Substances

Activity

Breakdown of release/transfer of Key Reduction-target Substances

Data

Breakdown of substances requiring management

Data

(Japan) Reduction of chemicals use in production facility improvement

Case

(Japan) Reduction in the use of solvents and waste reduction by improving the manufacturing process

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Reducing Waste from Factories

Reducing absolute waste generation

Concept

Zero waste emissions

Activity

Reducing total global waste arisings by 5%

Activity

IT-based waste management

Activity

Total waste arisings

Data

Treatment and results of total waste arisings (Japan)

Data

Amount of in-house circulating resources (global)

Data

(Japan) Vigorous reduction in the use of cardboard packaging

Case

(Indonesia) Reusing wooden pallets for the transportation of refrigerators

Case

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Effective Use of Water Resources

Reducing global water consumption by 4%

Concept

Water consumption

Data

(China) Recycling of water

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Management of the Factory Environment

Management by setting voluntary standards more stringent than national laws

Concept

Cases in which pollutant levels exceeded legal criteria

Data

Impact on the air

Data

Impact on the public waterways

Data

Prevention measures for excess of COD level at Panasonic Battery Shanghai

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Initiatives at Offices

Environmentally-conscious initiatives in the office

Concept

CO₂ emissions from office buildings

Data

Green Purchasing

Activity

Green Purchasing results (Japan)

Data

Building management based on the concept of "energy tuning"

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