Environment and Safety
Environmental Accounting

Quantitative Evaluation of Environmental Conservation

With the aim of facilitating the transparency of our activities and the efficiency of our environmental conservation efforts, since FY2002, Polyplastics has carried out environmental accounting focused on quantitatively ascertaining and assessing environmental conservation-related investment, expenses, and outcomes.
Our environmental accounting is conducted in accordance with the “Environmental Accounting Guidelines 2005” issued by the Japanese Ministry of the Environment.
Initiative details and environmental conservation results can be found on the relevant pages linked to in the table below.
“Investments” is the actual value of environmental conservation-related capital investment for the fiscal year.
“Costs” is the actual value of environmental conservation-related depreciation, running costs, labor costs, etc.

Environmental Conservation Costs

(Unit: Millions of yen)
Category Main Activities Investments Costs
On-site costs Pollution control costs Reduction of air/water pollution and emissions of chemical substances into the environment Related page 28 1,045
Global environmental conservation costs Energy-saving (global warming prevention) 26 26
Resource recycling costs Reduction, separation, and recycling of industrial waste Related page 0 227
Subtotal 54 1,298
Upstream/downstream costs Assessment of environmentally hazardous substances in products; information provision; green purchasing Related page 0 49
Administrative activities costs Labor costs for environmental management; ISO 14001 operation and maintenance costs; environmental training costs; environmental impact reduction costs 0 30
Research and development costs Research and development related to environmental impact reduction in materials development and processes 0 42
Community activities costs Greening, beautification, and other environmental improvement activities, community event participation, and membership fees 0 29
Environmental damage costs Air pollution charges 0 13
Other related costs 0 1
Total 54 1,460
  • Period: April 2022 – March 2023
  • Scope: Japan/Fuji Plant; Kaohsiung Plant; Malaysia/Kuantan Plant; China/Nantong Plant (PTM/PNL); Germany/Oberhausen Plant; Germany/Leuna Plant

Environmental Capital Investment

Environmental Capital InvestmentEnvironmental Capital Investment

Environmental Conservation Costs

Environmental Conservation CostsEnvironmental Conservation Costs
  • *Note: Taiwan and Malaysia are included from FY2004, China (PTM) from FY2008, China (PNL) from FY2014, and Germany from FY2015.
    Data is from January to December up to FY2012, January to March of the same year for FY2013, and April to March of the following year for FY2014 onward.

Environmental Conservation Activities as a Percentage of Business Activities

(Unit: %)
Category 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
Environmental conservation-focused R&D costs as a percentage of total R&D costs 10.9 5.8 1.8 2.4 1.7 3.2 3.1 2.3 2.1 1.3
Environmental conservation-focused investment as a percentage of total capital investment 2.5 2.0 2.8 8.1 5.2 4.0 1.2 1.5 1.0 0.2