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Environmental Data File
Scope of this Data File
Reporting period: Fiscal year 2007 (April 1, 2006 - March 31, 2007)
The abbreviated year indication in graphs means the fiscal year (April 1- March 31).
Organization covered: Panasonic (Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.) and its group subsidiaries inside and outside Japan globally (called "the Group" in this report).
Data covered: All manufacturing sites (including some nonmanufacturing sites) that have established environmental management systems. Sales prior to fiscal 2004 used for the basic unit include sales by MEW and PanaHome and exclude sales within the Group.
* Where there are no indications of fiscal year or region in the performance data, results are for fiscal 2007 (on a global basis).
Manufacuturing (Japan)
Electricity: 3.17 billion kWh
Petroleum: 48,000kL
Gas: 180 million m3
LPG: 50 million kg
Water: 42.81 million m3
Packaging materials: 145,000 tons
CO2: 2.06 million tons
NOx: 1,267 tons
SOx: 164 tons
Wastewater: 19.62 million m3
Release and transfer of chemical substances: 5,335 tons
Total waste arisings (including revenue-generating waste)
Generation: 262,000 tons
Final disposal: 1,000 tons
- Reducing global CO2 emissions through our Three-Year Plan
- Promoting energy conservation initiatives in the device segment and in China
- Promoting factory energy conservation as CDM projects
- Visualizing energy losses
- Use of Co-generation system (CGS)
- CO2 emissions per basic unit
- Energy consumption
- Composition of GHG emissions (tons- CO2)
- Effects on power generation by co-generation systems (CGS)
- (Japan) Achieving a 15% reduction by careful management of factory facilities
- (China) Achieving a 5% reduction in the use of steam by using waste heat
- (Malaysia) Expansion of CDM initiatives in Southeast Asia and China
- Management of chemical substances according to three ranks
- Reduction of Key Reduction-Target Substances
- Breakdown of release/transfer of Key Reduction-target Substances
- Breakdown of substances requiring management
- (Japan) Reduction of chemicals use in production facility improvement
- (Japan) Reduction in the use of solvents and waste reduction by improving the manufacturing process
- Reducing absolute waste generation
- Zero waste emissions
- Reducing total global waste arisings by 5%
- IT-based waste management
- Total waste arisings
- Treatment and results of total waste arisings (Japan)
- Amount of in-house circulating resources (global)
- (Japan) Vigorous reduction in the use of cardboard packaging
- (Indonesia) Reusing wooden pallets for the transportation of refrigerators
Calculation model
156 manufacturing sites in Japan
[Input items] electricity: amount purchased from power utilities; petroleum: used volume of heavy oil, and kerosene; water: used volume of water, industrial water and underground water; packaging materials: corrugated cardboard, polystyrene foam, paper board, etc. (excepting PanaHome).
[Output items] CO2: CO2 emissions associated with the use of electricity, gas, LPG and petroleum; NOx and Sox: emissions from business sites governed by legal regulations and ordinances; water: discharge to sewage and public water districts.
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