| Year |
Activities |
| 1971 |
• Establishes the Environmental Technology Center |
| 1972 |
• Establishes 10 Consumer Information Centers around Japan |
| 1973 |
• Formulates the Business Philosophy and Business Creed |
| 1979 |
• Establishes the First Synthetic Energy Committee |
| 1987 |
• Establishes the CFC Regulation Countermeasure Committee |
| 1988 |
Establishes the Legal Affairs Division |
| 1991 |
• Appoints a Corporate Director for Environmental Management
• Establishes the Environmental Activities Promotion Department |
| 1992 |
• Enacts the Sharp Environmental Charter and Basic Environmental Conservation Guidelines |
| 1993 |
• Holds the First Environmental Strategy Conference
• Announces the Voluntary Plan on the Environment
• Begins registration of persons in charge of environmental management at overseas bases |
| 1994 |
• Phases out ozone-depleting chemicals in the cleansing process of all operations
• Phases out vinyl chloride in all packaging
• Establishes the C-PA (Chemical Product Assessment) system |
| 1995 |
• Revises the Product Assessment Guidelines |
| 1996 |
• Achieves the Waste Reduction Voluntary Plan goal
• Starts an all-company effort to create Green Products |
| 1997 |
• Holds the Global Environmental Conference
• Establishes the Environmental Protection Group |
| 1998 |
• Begins the environmental 3G-1R strategy
• Green Products Guidelines published
• Sharp Green Seal system introduced
• Green Mind Campaign started
• Institutes the Sharp Business Standards and Action Guidelines
• Establishes the Investor Relations Office |
| 1999 |
• Environmental Report published
• Kansai Recycling Systems Co., Ltd. established
• Trial introduction of the environmental accounting system
• Issues Green Factory Guidelines |
| 2000 |
• All Japanese sites introduce the Green Procurement System
• Introduces environmental accounting system
• Launches environmental solutions business
• Establishes company-wide chemical substance management committee |
2001 |
• Launches Green Engineering training
• Starts Super Green Initiatives
• Acquires ISO 14001 certification at major bases of all sales and service companies in Japan
• Establishes the BRM (Business Risk Management) Committee |
| 2002 |
• Achieves zero discharge to landfill at all Japanese production sites
• Establishes the Environmental Compliance Committee |
| 2003 |
• Puts closed-loop plastic material recycling technology to practical use
• Establishes the Sharp Green Club
• Starts Super Green Strategy
• Certifies the Kameyama Plant as Sharp's first Super Green Factory
• Revises the Sharp Business Standards and Action Guidelines into the Sharp Charter of Conduct
• Begins renewed R-CATS small-group activities
• Establishes the CSR Promotion Department
• Reorganizes the BRM Committee into the CSR/BRM Committee |
| 2004 |
• Formulates the corporate vision of "Sharps' energy-creating and energy-saving products will more than balance out Sharp's greenhouse gas emissions"
• Establishes the mid-term objective of becoming an "environmentally advanced company"
• Begins certification of Super Green Products
• Begins certification of Green Devices
• Begins creation of Sharp Forests in Japan
• Establishes the Information Security Promotion Department and Personal Information Protection Promotion Department
• Revises the Basic Purchasing Principles from the viewpoint of CSR
• Establishes the Corporate Equal Partnership Project Team |
| 2005 |
• Develops practical plant-based paint and adopts them for use in AQUOS LCD TVs
• Begins certification of Super Green Devices
• Certifies SMF in France as the first Super Green Factory outside of Japan
• Establishes the Committee for Compliance with the Energy Conservation Law as a Shipper
• Revises the Sharp Charter of Conduct into the Sharp Group Charter of Corporate Behavior and the Sharp Code of Conduct
• Revises the Basic Purchasing Principles
• Expands coverage of the social dimention of Sharp's CSR activities in the Environmental Report and changes its title to "Environmental and Social Report" |
| 2006 |
• Begins environmental education for elementary schools in cooperation with the Weathercaster Network NPO
• Kansai Recycling Systems begins operation of a second plant
• Introduces an Integrated Management System for the first time in the industry
• Establishes the Internal Control Committee |
| 2007 |
• Begins purification of reservoir water, a new environmental social contribution activity
• Publishes the Sharp Supply-Chain CSR Deployment Guidebook
• Establishes the Sharp Voluntary Product Safety Action Policy
• Introduces the Green Office certification system |
| 2008 |
• Reorganizes the CSR Promotion Department and the Legal Affairs Division to establish the CSR Promotion Group
• Begins the new SGF II environmental policy at its plants
• Introduces the executive officer system
• Begins environmental education for elementary schools overseas
• AQUOS R Series LCD TVs become the first consumer electronics products to bear the GE (Green Energy) Mark
• Establishes the Compliance Committee
• Establishes the Social Contribution Promotion Department under the CSR Promotion Group
• Sharp Corporation acquires the Privacy Mark
• Establishes the positions of Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) and Compliance Officer (CO) to strengthen the compliance promotion system company-wide
• Environmental education program given to a total of 1,000 schools in Japan
• Begins craftsmanship education program for elementary schools
• Reorganizes the Corporate Equal Partnership Project Team into the Diversity Development Team
• Builds a flat-panel TV recycling line at Plant No. 2 of Kansai Recycling Systems |
| 2009 |
• Establishes the Compliance Promotion Team within the Legal Affairs Division of the CSR Promotion Group
• Sharp’s test site certified to carry out testing needed to apply for the Blue Angel Mark, a German environmental label
• Achieves its fiscal 2010 environmental vision two years earlier than planned and sets forth a new environmental vision of “Becoming an Eco-Positive Company”
• Appoints an outside director
• Joins the United Nations Global Compact
• Environmental education given to a total of 100,000 children in Japan
• Begins outdoor environmental education program in Japan
• Distributes Sharp Group Compliance Guidebook for all employees in Japan
• Begins environmental education at special-needs schools for the hearing impaired in Japan
• Joins WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) Japan
• Total volume of plastic recycled and used by closed-loop material recycling reaches 5,050 tons
• Begins Eco Best Practice Forums |
| 2010 |
• Revises Sharp Group Charter of Corporate Behavior and the Sharp Code of Conduct
• Establishes “Eco-Positive Company” as Sharp's corporate vision
• Begins an educational program that combines factory tours and environmental/craftsmanship lessons
• Expresses support for the Women’s Empowerment Principles, created by UNIFEM (now UN Women) and the UN Global Compact
• Creates 12th Sharp Forest in Japan
• Completes acquisition of OHSAS 18001 certification at main production sites in Japan
• Sharp and 10 other companies of GREEN FRONT SAKAI acquire ISO 14001 certification
• Constructs the Global Green Supply Chain, a new scheme for managing substances
• Constructs an environmental safety operations audit system
|
| 2011 |
• Appoints Sharp’s first female executive officer
• Environmental education given to a total of 150,000 children in Japan |