Environmental Reporting

【Notes】As a result of the change in months in each fiscal year, the environmental data and information contained in this report including graphs are as follows.

    ・Fiscal 2014: Actuals for 9 months from April to December + Actuals for January to March 2014 (or estimated value) [Partially overlaps with fiscal 2013]
  • ・After fiscal 2015 : Actuals for 12 months from January to December

Environmental Accounting

●Total investments for the current period: ¥50.0 billion
●Total research and development expenses for the current period: ¥14.4 billion

Costs for Environmental Conservation (Millions of yen)

Category Investments Cost Principal activities
Costs within the sites Pollution prevention costs 923 1,475 Operating cost of environmental facilities, measures to prevent emissions of toxic chemical substances
Global environmental preservation costs 86 77 Cost of energy conservation activities
Resource recycling costs 415 808 Recycling costs and waste processing costs
Total 1,424 2,360  
Upstream and downstream costs - 105 Recycling and reuse of packaging materials, improvement of container packaging
Administrative costs 97 91 ISO 14001, environmental measurements, environmental education
Research and development costs 154 422 Development of environmentally friendly products
Social activity costs - 0 Afforestation, beautification, provision of environmental information to host community residents
Environmental damage costs - -  
Total 1,674 2,978  
  • Note: Environmental damage costs are included in pollution prevention costs.

Environmental Preservation Effects (Kuraray)

Category Unit FY2017 FY2018(1) FY2019(2) Change
[(2)-(1)]
Pollution prevention activities SOx emissions Tons 407 350 550 200
NOx emissions Tons 1,855 1,779 1,770 (9)
Soot and dust emissions Tons 33 31 31 0
PRTR substance emissions Tons 976 902 855 (47)
COD load Tons 514 554 512 (42)
Global environment preservation activities GHG emissions 1,000 tons-CO2 1,319 1,310 1,301 (9)
Energy consumption 1,000 kL
(crude oil equivalent)
434 433 431 (2)
Resource recycling activities Unutilized externally processed industrial waste Tons 849 875 1,735 860
Rate of effective waste utilization % 96.7 97.8 97.1 (1)
Water resource usage* million m³ 71 72 71 (1)
Total discharge of wastewater* million m³ 64 65 61 (4)
  • * Excluding seawater

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Environmental data

(1) Basis for environmental accounting calculations
  • Reporting period: January 1, 2019 to December 31, 2019
  • Scope covered: Kuraray sites
(2) Environmental conservation cost calculation criteria
  • Depreciation: Straight-line method
  • Standard for allocating costs: In principle, 100% of costs are allocated to individual environmental conservation items. However, a portion of costs is allocated on a pro-rata basis.
(3) Standard for calculating environmental conservation effects
  • Effects are calculated in a simple comparison with the total environmental load of the previous fiscal year and are not adjusted for production volume.
(4) Standard for calculating economic effects (benefits) of environmental conservation measures.
  • Although material effects such as income from recycling are known, benefits are deducted from environmental conservation costs.