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Pursuing coexistence with the global environment in its business vision, Panasonic places
reduction of the environmental impact in all its business activities as one of the important
themes in its midterm management plan. In its ‘eco ideas’ Strategy, which focuses in particular
on rapid implementation of measures to prevent global warming and global promotion of envi
ronmental sustainability management, Panasonic is advancing three key initiatives: ‘eco ideas’
for Manufacturing, ‘eco ideas’ for Products, and ‘eco ideas’ for Everybody, Everywhere.
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We are approaching a global turning
corner and it would not be an ex ag
geration to call it the ‘Environmental
Industrial Revolution’. Based on this
rec og nition, Panasonic has built an
‘eco ideas’ House on the premise of our
showroom, Panasonic Center Tokyo in
April 2009 in order to help create a
carbonfree society and reduce CO
2
emissions from a household sector.
The concept of this ‘eco ideas’ House
can be described as follows:
1. Virtually zero CO
2
emissions in an
entire house envisaged in three to
ve years into the future
2. Synergy of technology and nature
Aforementioned concepts shows that
Panasonic is not only aware of it´s en vi
ron mental responsibility moreover
this Panasonic takes action.
We will reduce CO
2
emissions across all
our manufacturing sites.
In each of our factories a CO
2
emissions
of 10% reduction till 2010.
Our factories are evaluated with regard to
CO
2
emission, waste disposal, recycling
measures as well as chemical and water
consumption within the scope of the
‘Clean Factory’ program and they are set
performance targets according to these
indicators.
The Wakayama Plant of the Energy Com
pany is strengthening its management
structure to cut CO
2
emissions from the
main production bases for LithiumIon
batteries, which are a core component of
Panasonic’s energy business. As a result,
it has succeeded in roughly halving CO
2
emissions per production unit, as well as
sharply curbing an increase in CO
2
emis
sions even as production has expanded.
We will produce energyefcient pro
ducts.
In March 2010 at least 20 products with
the ‘Superior Green Products‘ classi
cation should be available.
The developers at Panasonic carry out
an environmental impact assessment
for all our products. Products that meet
the highest environmental requirements
in the branch with regard to conservation
of energy and energy efciency are
classied as a ‘Superior Green Product’
and awarded the Panasonic logo ‘eco
ideas’.
We have dispensed with the use of
highly toxic Lithium Thionyl Chloride in
the production of our Lithium batteries.
This is quite rightly classified as highly
toxic and should never under any cir
cumstances be released into the envi
ronment.
We will encourage the spread of environ
mental activities throughout the world.
Intensive commitment on the part of the
company owners, international coopera
tions and involvement of the employees.
Not only do we sponsor the work of the
WWF for the Arctic, Panasonic has also
launched a couple of other environmen
tal
initiatives such as the ECO RELAY ini
tiative in which hundreds of colleagues
the world over take part voluntarily for
several days in environmental campaigns.
With the support of the GRS Batterien
(German
Battery Recycling Association)
Panasonic arranged a battery collection
day with the aim of collecting as many of
these spent energy sources as possible
and giving out information about
the
recycling loop of batteries from which
valuable raw materials such as Zinc,
Manganese and Iron can be recovered.