Environmental Risk Management - Initiatives to Address PCB Pollution

Panasonic discontinued the use of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) in its products in 1972 and has since been strictly managing its PCB waste. In July 2001, the Law concerning Special Measures against PCB Waste was enforced in Japan and we have been storing and making notifications about our PCB waste according to this law. Further, we are making efforts to appropriately dispose of PCB waste as early as possible in collaboration with Japan Environmental Safety Corporation (JESCO).
   We will continue to make efforts for the early decontamination of PCB waste in collaboration with the Japan Environmental Safety Corporation (JESCO) and intend to quickly complete all the remedial measures for the soil contaminated with PCBs, thereby reducing our PCB-related environmental risks.

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• Treatment of PCB-filled capacitors
• Towards the early decontamination of PCB waste
• Towards the purification of PCB-contaminated soil