Module 9

Business Ethics
Environmental Ethics
Maintaining and Improvement of Environment
affect the corporate activities
Recognizing the impacts the company's design, development and
manufacturing activities as well as its products and services may have
on the environment, we strive to provide environmentally-friendly
products and services, promote effective use of resources and energy
and prevent environmental pollution in an effort to maintain and
improve the environment.
Comply with laws and regulations as well as requirements.
Comply with laws and regulations applicable to the company as well as
requirements the company agrees to.

Promote environmental awareness and eradicate unreasonableness,

waste and inconsistency.
Increase all employees' environmental awareness so as to lead to
eradication of unreasonableness, waste and inconsistency (in materials,
energy and so on).
Green Factory
• We have integrated various kinds of processes for preventing air and
water pollution due to smoke and wastewater emitted from the plant.
We are also committed the reduction of resource and energy
consumption in order to coexist and live together with the local
society.
Promotion of Green Procurement
• We procure materials and sub materials that can be recycled. We
thoroughly prohibit using any hazardous chemical substances and have
shifted to using materials with fewer environmental wastes.
Packing and wrapping of products
• We make efforts to reduce the use of packing and wrapping materials
and reuse them by simplifying the wrapping of products, reviewing the
packing materials, and using returnable containers.
Reduction in the amount of refuse and recycling
• We make efforts to reduce the amount of refuse discharged from the
plant by improving the yield ratio of materials and reducing the
defective ratio, as well as actively promoting recycling of resources.
Office
• We reduced the amount of paper, electricity used, waste discharged,
and fully recycled paper by sorting out used paper.
Compliance with the laws
• We tighten management and monitoring of our facilities by setting our
self-imposed management criteria that is more strict than the current
laws and regulations.
Environmental Volunteers
• A number of our employees have participated in the environmental
volunteer activities for "Clean Beach & River in Kaga (city)" and
other cleaning activities to create a clean town together with the people
of the local societies.
What the Green Movement Got Wrong:
environmentalists respond
Adam Werbach, former Sierra Club president say that
• Let me be clear. The environmental movement needs to change. The
world is radically different than it was in the 1960's and 1970's when
the modern movement was formed. The environmental movement
needs to mature its view of the role of people, technology and
corporations. People are the solution not the problem. Technology and
innovation allows us to survive on a resource-limited planet. Big
corporations are not always the enemy.