Limiting the Amount of Waste Generated
Our Approach
The Fujitsu Group considers wastes as valuable resources and has continued to work toward recovering resources from its waste or using the waste as a source of energy. In Japan, our volume of final waste disposal has been decreasing every year. However, the environment surrounding waste disposal remains challenging as building new disposal sites is difficult and the existing ones have limited lifespans.
We are actively working to install new equipment and reuse waste with the objective to reduce the amounts of waste acid, waste alkali and sludge generated in the production of semiconductors and printed circuit boards. These efforts are in line with Japan's
Fundamental Law for Establishing a Sound Material-Cycle Society to (1) reduce waste generated, (2) reuse it, (3) recycle it and (4) recover heat from it.
We have also established the company-wide Standards for Consignment of Waste Disposal to properly dispose waste, based on the Waste Management and Public Cleansing Law.
On-site Audits for Outsourcing Contractors
We conclude contracts with waste processing companies. These contracts are common for the whole Fujitsu Group. We conduct on-site audits of the waste processing companies with which we have contracts to periodically confirm that waste is being appropriately processed. If multiple business sites have contracts with the same processing company, then a representative business site conducts on-site audits based on the representative auditing regulations. In other cases, each business site individually conducts audits to confirm that waste processing is appropriate.
FY 2019 Performance
| Targets Under the Fujitsu Group Environmental Action Plan (Stage IX) | FY 2019 Performance |
|---|---|
| Reduce the amount of waste generated by 5% or more of the average amount generated from FY 2012 to FY 2014 (Target 14,226 t/year or less）（*1） | 18.0% reduction |
- （*1）Boundary : Fujitsu and Fujitsu Group manufacturing sites excluded MIFS
Promoting Measures to Reduce Waste Generation and Plastic Waste
At Shinko Electric Industry Co., Ltd., we reduced the amount of waste generated by 40 tons by changing equipment in some exposure processes to reduce the amount of masks. In addition, starting in January 2020, Fujitsu I-Network Systems Ltd. reduced the amount of waste it generated by 1.5 tons by taking parts reels, which had previously been waste material, and converting them into valuable resources. Such efforts have enabled us to achieve our target by reducing the amount of waste generated to 12,284 tons (generation rate/sales revenue: 0.32 tons/100 million yen).
In accordance with China's ban on importing waste plastic which went into effect in 2018, we have begun collaborating with external reuse companies to partially reuse parts trays used at the time of delivery of procured parts, as a new measure to reduce the amount of waste plastic we generate.
Waste Generated, Effective Use, and Final Disposal (in tons)
| Type of Waste | Waste Generated | Effective Use | Final Disposal |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sludge | 1,414 | 1,358 | 56 |
| Waste oil | 813 | 798 | 15 |
| Waste acid | 720 | 719 | 1 |
| Waste alkali | 2,365 | 2,249 | 116 |
| Waste plastic | 2,659 | 2,612 | 48 |
| Waste wood | 991 | 949 | 42 |
| Waste metal | 461 | 461 | 0 |
| Glass/ceramic waste | 189 | 186 | 3 |
| Other（*2） | 2,672 | 2,478 | 194 |
| Total | 12,284 | 11,810 | 474 |
- （*2）Other includes general waste, wastepaper, septic tank sludge, cinders, rubble, textile waste, animal and plant residue, and infectious waste.
