"Super Green Strategy" Aiming to Become an Environmentally Advanced Company
Raising environmental sustainability management levels through unique management systems
Sharp is continuously making efforts to strengthen environmental sustainability management and raise employees' environmental awareness. The Environmental Protection Group plays a key role in realizing these targets. It is promoting advanced measures, for example building an integrated management system that is incorporated into a strategic management system and implementing systematic environmental education programs.
Developing unique environmental technologies that contribute to environmental conservation
Sharp is developing critically important environmental technologies as "one-of-a-kind" environmental technologies, in line with its strategy for company-wide technology development. That is because the development of superior environmental technologies is an essential factor in the creation of high-performance products and devices, together with the reduction of environmental impact during production.
Create products and devices with high environmental performance
Sharp is continuously improving the environmental performance of products and devices by setting higher objectives, as well as by adopting stricter assessment standards through revising its guidelines every year. As a result, in fiscal 2007 Sharp achieved its goal to increase the percentage of net sales accounted for by Green Seal Products, Super Green Products, Green Devices, and Super Green Devices.
Factories with high environmental consciousness
Applying its own unique criteria and standards, Sharp certifies a factory with a high level of environmental consciousness as a Green Factory (GF), and a factory with an extremely high level of environmental consciousness as a Super Green Factory (SGF). Sharp achieved its medium-term plan to convert all domestic and overseas Sharp Group production sites into Green Factories or higher by the end of fiscal 2007.
Recycling used products effectively
Sharp is working to expand recycling of products that have reached the end of their service life, based on three concepts: 1) realize zero landfill disposal by improving the recycling rate, 2) improve the efficiency of the recycling system to reduce recycling costs, and 3) incorporate recycling technologies into the development and design of products.
Further reduction of environmental impacts in distribution
In cooperation with shipping contractors, Sharp is creating a system to accurately assess environmental impacts in distribution. In Japan, the Sharp Group as a whole is promoting initiatives to optimize transport methods and load efficiency. Sharp also has set a goal of slashing annual CO2 emissions per sales unit by at least 1%, a mandate for certain shippers specified under Japan's revised Law Concerning the Rational Use of Energy.
Promoting Environmental Communication with its wide range of stakeholders
Sharp discloses environmental information through exhibitions and various media, including Environmental and Social Reports, websites, and newspaper ads. Each Sharp site also endeavors to promote dialogue on environmental topics with local communities by sponsoring various events and holding factory tours.
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