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About Panasonic
Measures against Environmental Risks
- Company-wide
systems
- Compliance Management at Factories
- Management of Soil
and Groundwater
Initiatives to Address
PCB Pollution
Initiatives for PCB pollution
Panasonic discontinued the production of equipment containing polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in Japan in 1972 and has since been strictly managing its PCB waste. We are storing and making necessary notifications about such materials in compliance with the Act on Special Measures concerning Promotion of Proper Treatment of PCB Waste, which was enforced in Japan in July 2001. As for the PCB-containing capacitors buried at five of our factories, which we voluntarily made public in January 2003, we completed excavations, and we are now working on countermeasure in our fomer Tsukamoto factory site. We also began full-scale treatment of the contaminated soil by commissioning it to Geosteam Corp., which has PCB contaminated soil purification facilities in Kitakyushu. By the end of March 2011, approx. 16,130 tons of contaminated soil were transported to and treated at the facilities. We will continue to treat PCB waste and contaminated soil in a prompt manner.
Numbers of PCB-containing items registered with JESCO*1 and those already decontaminated (as of March 31, 2011)
| Type of waste | Registered with JESCO | Already decontaminated |
|---|---|---|
| Transformers, capacitors, etc | 2,281 devices*2 | 1,175 devices |
| PCB and PCB-containing oil | About 4,700 kg | - |
- *1 Japan Environmental Safety Corporation (company engaged in PCB waste treatment).
- *2 Added 260 SANYO units. Two out of the registered units as of March 31, 2010 were found to be out of the scope.
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