Resource Conservation in Products

In recent years, the use of packaging materials has been increasing due to an increase in the number of large products. Panasonic has been implementing measures to reduce the environmental impact of packaging materials without compromising the safety of the products to be transported. Specifically, we are reducing the use of cardboard and foamed polystyrene materials, reusing packaging materials for transportation between our factories, and improving load efficiency in transportation. Moreover, we are making efforts to curb the increased use of packaging materials. For example, we are improving product strength and selecting and designing appropriate buffer materials for each product item, by repeating tests.

We have developed environmentally-conscious packages by reducing the use of inks through monochrome printing and also by reducing the packaging materials themselves.
Packages that meet our criteria^*1 are labeled as ‘eco ideas’ packages. For the plasma TV, we reduced about 40%^*2 use of packaging materials by improving the strength of the product and optimizing the package design.

• *1 20% or more reduction in the printing space, 15% or more reduction in an amount of packaging material use, 15% or more reduction in an amount of expanded polystyrene use, no use of expanded polystyrene, etc.
• *2 Reduced the material by 4.74 kg in TH-42PX80 (2008 model) compared to the TH-42PX70 (2007 model).

‘eco ideas’ package / ‘eco ideas’ package mark