Environmentally-Conscious Products

Panasonic has been utilizing an environmental assessment system for its products. Under this system, we assess the environmental impact of our products right from their planning and design stages. Based on the assessment results, we accredit products and services with higher environmental performance as Green Products (GPs).
Furthermore, we accredit products that have achieved top environmental performance in the industry as Superior GPs and trend-setting products towards achieving a sustainable society as Super GPs.

We are making the GP accreditation criteria stricter each year, thereby ensuring continuous improvement in the GHG efficiency*¹ and resource efficiency*² of our products. In addition, we are endeavoring to manage all chemical substances that might adversely affect the environment in an appropriate manner.

• *1 (Product life x product function)/GHG emissions over the entire life cycle
• *2 (Product life x product function)/Amount of non-circulating resources over the entire life cycle

• *1 Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle
• *2 A method of quantitatively assessing the environmental impact of products at each life cycle stage.

• *1 GHG efficiency of the product to be evaluated/GHG efficiency of a benchmark product
• *2 Resource efficiency of the product to be evaluated/Resource efficiency of a benchmark product
• *3 Target: Products in which PVC resin was used in fiscal 2001