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UNITIKA CSR Report

Message from the President

Environmental Accounting

The Unitika Group implements environmental accounting as part of our environment-conscious business activities.
In conducting our environmental accounting, we follow the 2005 edition of the environmental accounting guidelines published by the Japanese Ministry of the Environment in February 2005. The Unitika Group will continue to release clear and accurate environmental accounting data.

Purpose of Environmental Accounting

  • - To make environmental preservation more efficient by quantitatively identifying the amounts of investments and expenses for environmental preservation, and to make decision-making processes in a more reasonable way.
  • - To disclose environmental accounting information to our stakeholders and to fulfill our responsibility to keep them informed.

Method of Tallying Environmental Accounting Data

Data provided by : Unitika Domestic production sites & Internal Group Companies and Union Co., Ltd.
Applicable period : April 1, 2009 to March 31, 2010
Calculation method : Investment amounts include the environmental investment on items for which the environment is not the main objective.
Expense amounts include labor costs, general expenses and depreciation.

Unitika's fiscal 2009 environmental investment was 199 million yen. Most of these funds were used on items related to energy savings and global warming prevention.
Environmental expenses were 1,488 million yen, mainly for maintenance and management of equipment to prevent pollution, waste processing (including recycling expenses), and product R&D to reduce environmental impact.

Environmental Preservation Costs

(Millions of yen)
Category Capital
investment		 Cost Remarks
Business
area costs		 Pollution prevention costs 34 651 Pollution (water, air and noise pollution) prevention measures
Environmental
preservation costs		 104 27 Energy saving, global warming prevention
Resource recycling costs 61 377 Waste disposal, recycling
Upstream/downstream costs - 43 Packaging material recycling
Management activity costs - 73 Environmental management system maintenance environmental education, impact monitoring
R&D costs - 260 Developing environmentally-friendly products
CSR costs - 38 Forestation improvements, beautification campaigns
Environmental damage costs - 19 Quantity-based tax on environmental impact of SO× emissions
Total 199 1,488  

Economic Effects

The table lists items with a clear basis for calculation that have high substantive benefits for environmental preservation.
Note that inferred benefits have not been calculated.

(Millions of yen)
Item Amount
Reduction in energy expenses 105
Reduction of costs associated with energy-efficient power sources and industrial waste reduction 7
Income from sale of recycled resources 119