Environmental Report 2002

CASIO Environmental Report 2002

CONTENTS
1 Contents, Editorial Policy, Period
and Scope

2 Top Commitment
3 Benefitting the Environment with
Cutting-Edge Technology

5 The Casio Group’s Relationshipwith Society and the Environment

7 The Casio Group’s Environmental
Action Plan “Clean & Green 21”
Initiative

9 Green Products through Product
Assessment

10 Casio Green Products(Environmentally Conscious
Products)

11 New Vision of Green Products
12 Reducing the Use of Resources
in Packaging

13 Thorough Environmental

Editorial Policy• This Environmental Report 2002 was prepared on the basis of the Ministry of the Environment’s (MOE) “Environmental Report Guidelines” (2000 edition).
• In response to last year’s questionnaire results, this year’s report employs many figures, tables, and images. Efforts have also been made so that Casio Green Productdescriptions and other textual items are easy to read.
• The report explains the Casio Group’s business activities and environmental aspects,
describes the group-wide environmental philosophy, environmental policies, institutions, Environmental Action Plan, and other environmental management efforts to reduce the impact of the group on the environment, and presents the achievements ofindividual initiatives.
• To facilitate two-way communication with readers and provide information, the backcover gives contact information and our website URL. There is also a separate questionnaire form.

About the Data
• Energy Consumption
Data have been compiled in accordance with the method set forth in the electric andelectronics industry’s Voluntary Plan for Energy Consumption. The CO2 conversion coefficient for electricity and fuel consumption is that used in the same plan.
• Wastes
Data are compiled in accordance with the definitions for emissions and recycling ofwastes prescribed by the electric and electronics industry.
• Air and Water Pollution
The report uses data from compliance certificates under the Air and Water Pollution
Control Laws.
• Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (PRTR)
Data are compiled in accordance with PRTR Guidelines (revised in March 2001) for theelectric and electronics industry.
• Designations of Casio Business Operations
The division that produces liquid crystal displays and other electronic components iscalled the Electronic Component Division, while that producing electronic equipment
is called the Electronics Equipment Division. (Last year’s report called these“electronic component facilities” and “assembly/processing facilities,” but here they
are changed to make them readily understandable to the general reader.)Period and Scope

Management

15 Green Procurement in Japan andOverseas

16 Improving Distribution Efficiency
17 Product Recovery and Recycling• This Environmental Report 2002 mainly summarizes the Casio Group’s environmental
conservation initiatives for FY2001 (April 1, 2001 to March 31, 2002).
• Environmental performance data compiled and published are those for all Casio Groupdomestic sites except for sales, service, and information processing. These data
therefore represent most of the group’s domestic environmental burden.
• The Casio Computer Hachioji Laboratory is included in the Electronic Component Division, and the Head Office, Hamura Research & Development Center, and Tokyo Product Control and Technical Center are included in the Electronics Equipment Division.
Scope

Accounting

20 Environmental Performance

24 Expanded Activities to Benefit
Society

25 Facilitating Environmental

Electronics Equipment Division

Awards and Activities in Recent
Years

Main businesses
Head Office functions

Number ofsites
1Tokyo Product Control Development, design, and materials procurement for
and Technical Center system equipment

1

Hamura Research &Development Center

Development, design, and procurement for electronic
calculators, electronic timepieces, etc.

1

Hachioji Laboratory Research and development for electronic devices (LCDs, etc.)

1

Kofu Casio Co., Ltd.*3

Manufacture of electronic calculators, mobile information devices, systems
equipment, LCD devices, plastic parts, molds, and other products

2

Kochi Casio Co., Ltd.

Development and manufacture of liquid crystals and other electronic devices

1

Casio Micronics Co., Ltd.*3

Development, manufacture, and sales of electronic devices

2

Yamagata Casio Co., Ltd.*3

Casio Electronic Manufacturing Co., Ltd.*2

Manufacture of electronic timepieces, communications
equipment, and other products
Manufacture of digital cameras, electronic musical instruments,
communications equipment, and other products
Manufacture of page printers

Casio Refre Co., Ltd.*2

Refurbishing and sales of electronic calculators andother electronic equipment

5

Casio Techno Co., Ltd.*2

Repair, sales, and maintenance of equipment and otherelectronic equipment

1

Casio Media System Co., Ltd.*4

Manufacture and sales of home audio equipment

CCP Co., Ltd.*4

Manufacture and sales of toys and sundry goods

Casio Computer
Co., Ltd.

Domestic

23 Environmental Conservation

Head Office *2

Electronic Component
Division

21 Site-Specific Information

Scope of Environmental Action Plan

(Data Section)*1

Scope of Compiled and Published Environmental Performance Data

19 Publicly Disclosed Environmental

Casio Group sites

Aichi Casio Co., Ltd.

2
1
1

2

Others (sales, service, information processing, and other sites)

Communication
Overseas Group companies

26 Independent Message*1: Overseas facilities are not included in the Environmental Action Plan for energy conservation, waste reduction, and green procurement.
*2: Facilities added since FY1998. *3: New sites added since FY2000. *4: Facilities added since FY2000.

Top Commitment

Working toward the Recycling-based Society

Kazuo Kashio
President

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unique standards for environmental conscious
design, which we have defined as “Green
Products.”
The Green Product concept signifies that
products are not merely energy-saving, but also strive toward the three Rs (reuse, reduce,and recycle). Environmental consciousness isthe added value created by Green Products.
Henceforth we plan to set Green Products
at the core of our product line, expand them toinclude items such as our new solar-powered
and radio-controlled watches and credit-cardsized LCD digital camera, and raise theproportion of such products in our total sales.
Through these environmental initiatives wewill reduce the environmental burden of
products throughout their life cycles, and at
the same time strive to use less energy andgenerate less waste at our facilities, thereby
mitigating our environmental burden throughthe totality of Casio Group activities.
This Environmental Report 2002 provides
the details and achievements of the Casio
Group’s environmental activities from our
FY2001 global perspective. We hope that it will
help as many readers as possible understandour efforts, and that readers’ frank opinions
and observations will help us broaden thescope of our endeavors.
July 2002

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In the 21st century — the environmental
century — the Casio Group perceives its
corporate role as “building the recycling-basedsociety to conserve the global environment andachieve sustainable development,” and to thatend we conduct a wide range of environmental
activities.
In FY2001 the Casio Group was presented
with an entirely new set of circumstances by
the passage of the Basic Law for Establishinga Recycling-Based Society, the Law for the
Promotion of Utilisation of Recyclable Resources, and the Law Concerning the Promotion of
Procurement of Eco-Friendly Goods and Service by the State and other Entities.
Further, with the ratification of the Kyoto
Protocol in June 2002, the Casio Group ismaking renewed efforts at saving energy tostem global warming.
To address these circumstances, we set up
a new program to recover and recycle used information and communications equipmentfrom corporate users. This program commenced after gaining authorization from the
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI)
and the MOE.
In product design we have systematized
technologies for lightweight, compactness,and power saving as the Casio Group’s own

Benefitting the Environment with Cutting-Edge Technology

2002

Executive Vice President Kashio

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Since its foundation, Casio has always striven
to “benefit society through creative products.”
Now that the environment is consideredparamount, engineers working on technologies inareas such as timepieces, digital cameras, andrecycling got together with Executive Vice
President Yukio Kashio, one of the company’s
founders, and Managing Director Osamu Shimizu
for an enthusiastic discussion on what Casio
technology can do for the environment.

• Designing the environment into products
To keep making environmentally compatible
products that deeply impress customers is one’ssocial responsibility as a manufacturer, and it also
helps grow one’s business.
The fundamental thinking behind Casio’s productcreation — “lightweight, compactness, and power saving” — performs double duty for the environment byleading to resource- and energy-saving technologies.
Customers of course expect quality, function, andreasonable pricing from manufacturers, but eco-compatibility is also an important consideration. (Kashio)
Through Green Product development, the Casio
Group tries to mitigate the environmental burden throughout a product’s totallife cycle (from planning, development,
design, procurement, production, andsale, to the customers’ product use,
disposal and recycling). (Yamada)
Yamada• More green products needed
In 2001 the Casio Group established its “Casio
Guidelines for Green Product Development” to facilitate the making ofenvironmentally conscious products.
When developing a new product,
we try to make it environmental
conscious from the two perspectives
Ozawa
of its “environmental design” and“environmental compliance.” New products are
rigorously assessed, and only those which meet the
Casio’s Standards are approved as Casio Green
Products. (Ozawa)
The first Green Product we developed was a USB electronic calculator.
It obtained the Eco Mark, and what’smore the calculator and cable do notcontain vinyl chloride and lead-freesolders are used. (Deguchi)
Deguchi
The life cycle assessment (LCA)
concept is important in making environmental
conscious products. At Casio we especially work on
minimizing the environmental burden of a productduring customer use. (Yamada)And that resulted in our solar-powered and radiocontrolled watch. The solar power technology
developed for the watch eliminated the environmental
burden of spent batteries. For its microprocessor, themost important part, we used a
newly developed LSI (SOI) that
consumes 50% less power thanprevious processors. At a glance it
looks like an ordinary wristwatch, but
it incorporates several innovative
Kasuo
technologies. (Kasuo)
Liquid crystal panels in digital watches and cellular
phones have until now been the most energyconsuming component, but recently
the idea of using sunlight as backlightassumed tangible form, and wedeveloped a liquid crystal panel thatsaves energy and is also easy to see.
We’ll build it into many products from
Sawatsubashi
now on. (Sawatsubashi)
We are now putting all our efforts into developing
fuel cells, which are indispensable as a next-Engineers from many fields push the envelope: “How can Casio help the environment?”• Eco-compatibility is now a business requirement

Nakazawa• Profit through environmental management
I’d like to dig into Casio’s “lightweight, compactness, and power saving,”
develop high-added-value
products like solar-powered and radio-controlled
watches, credit-card-sized
LCD digital camera, andfuel cells, and profit
through environmentallyconscious business.
(Managing Director Shimizu)Managing Director Shimizu• In-house communication about environmental
technology
Today’s topic led to much useful discussion, andI’d like to see these ideas used in green productdevelopment meetings for sharing environmental
technologies. Sales personnel too should perceive
the environment as basic to their jobs, and make itpart of their work. (Yamada)

The Participants
Department
Executive Vice President

Name

Yukio Kashio

Managing Director

Osamu Shimizu

General Manager
Quality & Environment Center

Yoshinobu Yamada

Assistant Manager
Planning Section, Development Dept.-1
Consumer Unit-1, Development HQ
LeaderProduct Development Group PV project
Development Center
Manager, CES Marketing Section
Consumer & Educational Products Department
Global Marketing Headquaters

Area of responsibility

Koji Deguchi

Electronic stationery

Takahiro Mizushina Credit-card-sized
LCD digital camera
Takuya Ono

Sales

Design Section Manager
TFT Department , Electronic Takeshi Sawatsubashi LCD devices
Device Division
LeaderDevelopment Dept.
Timepiece Division

Tomoo Kasuo

Timepieces

LeaderRecovery system
Information Technology System HQ. Yoneo Nakazawa
Environmental Management Section,
Quality & Environment Center

Naofumi Ozawa

Environmental
management

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Since the Green Purchasing Law became effectivein April 2000, more and more customers, especially
corporations, are saying they’ll buy only environmental
conscious products. In recent years there’s been ajump in the use of the general stationery supply
catalog for corporate users, but these days we can’t
have our products listed in the catalog unless they’reenvironmentally compatible. We mustn’t hesitate toincorporate environmental concerns when developing
products. Since we’re all here, I’mtaking this opportunity to ask this ofeveryone, from sales to development
and manufacturing. The “Eco-Tape”
consumable used in the Name Land
resulted from just such a requirement.
We’re also working on its recovery
Onoand recycling. (Ono)
Pursuant to the Law for the Promotion of Utilisationof Recycled Resources, we received authorizationfrom METI and MOE, and have begun recycling used
PCs and information and communications equipmentfrom corporate users. In collaboration
with a parcel delivery service, we got
the jump on other companies bystarting the recovery service, accepting
even single units, and at the same pricenationwide. Casio recycles 96.7% of
the PCs it recovers. (Nakazawa)

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generation energy supply. In the near future many
Casio products will use them. Our work is directed atmaking them endure long-term use, as well as
reducing size and improving function. (Managing
Director Shimizu)
Our digital photo developer digital photo vending
machine is helping reduce pollutant emissions because it can make just the number ofprints one wants when they’re needed, and without using developing fluid
or film. Sometime I’d like to performan LCA to show that its environmental
burden is smaller than that of film
Mizushina
photographs. (Mizushina)

The Casio Group’s Relationship with Society and the Environment
Casio’s Conduct of Business

Energyconservation

Solar energy

Green procurement(p. 15)
Coatings
Metal materials

Shift to transportby rail container (p. 16)

Dry cells

Use of hazardous
substances banned
Use of CFC
substitutes
banned(p. 8)

Resource
conservation

Financial Support for the Dolphin,
Whale and Human Fund(p. 24)

Environmental
Education (p. 13)

2002

Let’s
considerthe Earth’s
future.

Eco-friendly
calculators(p. 10)5Preventing waterpollution (p. 20)

Roads cleaned
around plants (p. 24)

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Credit-card-sized
LCD digital
Recovery of printerdrums and toner sets camera (p. 10)(p. 18)

Solar-powered andradio-controlled
watches (p. 10)

Watch boxes(p. 12)The Casio Group’s business operations cover abroad range comprising development, design, procurement, production, sales, service, and recycling.
In development and design, we put new efforts into
expanding solar-powered radio-controlled watches
and credit-card-sized LCD digital camera as “Green
Products” characterized by lightweight, compactness,and power saving.
In a bid to achieve a green procurement target of
80% in FY2003, we are moving toward this target
beginning with domestic suppliers.
Production sites are actively participating in activities aimed at achieving Environmental Action Plan for
reducing the amounts of energy and water used andtheir emissions of wastes and carbon dioxide (CO2),
and also in community conservation activities.
Since 1994, Casio has been supporting theInternational Dolphin & Whale Conference as a way of
doing our part for society.
Our recovery and recycling program is saving resources by recycling printer consumables (drums andtoner sets), rechargeable batteries, and informationand communications equipment that corporate users
have scrapped.
Casio employees receive environmental education
by means of programs conducted via ISO 14001
maintenance and improvement.

Casio’s Inputs and Outputs (environmental burdens imposed by inputs and emissions of materials and energy)
conscious development and design activities, green
procurement activities, distribution measures, and otherefforts help indirectly reduce the environmental burdens of
product use and disposal, procurement activities with
suppliers, and product transport.
The Electronic Component Division tends to use moreenergy and water, and generate more wastes, CO2, and other emissions, which gives it a larger environmental footprint.

Casio’s operations are divided into an Electronic
Component Division that manufactures liquid crystal
displays and other electronic components, and an
Electronics Equipment Division that manufactures various
kinds of electronic equipment. The environmental aspects
that the Casio Group can directly control are development,
design and procurement, and the inputs and emissions offacilities involved in manufacturing. Environmentally

InputsREC

Emissions

CO2, wastes

STOP

Bump*1

TFT LCD modules

6

COF*2

Emissions
WastesGenerated: 3,882.6 t
Landfilled disposal: 67.1 t

Flue gases
5.8t
SOx
18.0t
NOx
3
1,933,800m effluent

Recovery of
packaging

Packaging materials

Electronics Equipment Division
InputsEnergyElectricity: 31.3 million kWh
Fuel: 1,345kl (crude oil equiv.)

Chemical substances
Lead andits compounds: 1.9 t Etc.

Consumables,
energies, etc.

Musical instruments

End users

PDAs

Printers

Products

Product manufacturing

Development,
design, procurement

Supplies

Business activities

Green
procurement

Water
213,000m3

Computers

1 2 :0 0

12:00
G

Watches
Digital cameras

Cellular phones

EmissionsCO2
16,688t-CO2

Flue gases
Wastes
3.5t
SOx
Generated: 1,698.6 t
NOx
Landfilled disposal: 201.7 t 2.6t
3196,700m effluent

18mm

Printers

CK INK

Recovery of PCs,consumables, etc. Drum andCO2, wastes
Tape cartridges

toner sets

GlossaryWH

ITE TAPE
XR-18WE
BLA

Computers

Bump

COF

A technology for forming small projections (pins) on LSIs for joining LSI
chips with chip-on-glass (COG) or tape carrier package (TCP) assemblies.

Chip-on-film. A method of directly joining an LSI chip to a thin resin film
to achieve high-density packaging of LSI circuits in a limited space.

2002

CO2
67,647 t- CO2

Consumables,
energies, etc.

End users

Electronic components

Part manufacturing

Development,
design, procurement

Supplies

Business activities

Green
procurement

Resourcesand energies

Finished productmanufacturers

Chemical substances
Xylene:43.4 tCopper salts: 23.8 t(water-soluble, except
complex salts) Etc.

EnergyWater
Electricity: 112.83 million kWh 2.186million m3
Fuel: 7,506 kl (crude oil equiv.)

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Environmental Action Plan “Clean & Green 21” Initiative
Casio Environmental Charter
To conserve the global environment, Casio recognizes the importance of its corporate environmental responsibility across the operations of its entire group.
Casio establishes basic policies and specific measures for contributing to world prosperity and humanhappiness from the broad perspective of international society, and endeavors to implement them.

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Fundamental Environmental Policies

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1. Casio Group members shall comply with all environmental laws, agreements, and standards inJapan and overseas.
2. The Group shall establish voluntary “Casio Environmental Conservation Rules”* 1 based on
consideration for the environment at all productstages of development, design, manufacture,
distribution, repair services, and recovery/disposal.
All Casio business divisions shall assume responsibility for their implementation, additionallyauditing the degree of compliance and making
continual improvements.
3. From the standpoint of corporate social responsibility, and as good corporate citizens, all Casio
Group members shall apprehend the importanceof global environmental conservation and try toheighten their awareness.
4. These Policies shall apply to all Casio Groupbusiness divisions in Japan and overseas.

From the Casio Environmental Charter and Fundamental
Environmental Policies to Environmental Action Plan

Casio Environmental Charter

Fundamental Environmental Policies

Casio Voluntary Plan for the Environment (CVPE)
Environmental action guidelines for the
Casio Group that set forth specificthemes and measures to be implemented at each stage: development, design,
manufacture, distribution, repair services, and recovery/disposal.

The Casio Group’s Environmental Action Plan
”Clean & Green 21” Initiative
Policies of the quantitative targets or
deadlines among the items stipulated by
the CVPE.

*1 The Casio Environmental Conservation Rules are specific action programsfor environmental conservation, set forth in the “Casio Voluntary Plan for theEnvironment (CVPE).”

Casio Group Environmental Action Plan
The Casio Group formulated the Voluntary Planfor the Environment (CVPE) in January 1993 to
implement the Casio Environmental Charter and thefour Fundamental Environmental Policies, and began
pursuing environmental conservation activities as agroup-wide effort. In November 2000 the CVPE wasrevised for the sixth time in response to changing
social circumstances and progress in our activities.
The CVPE stipulates “Casio Environmental Conservation Rules,” as specific action programs for environmental conservation at each stage: development,
design, manufacture, distribution, repair services, andrecovery/disposal.

Based on these rules Casio established the Casio
Group’s Environmental Action Plan “Clean & Green
21” Initiative in June 1996. The Initiative explicitly sets
forth specific quantitative targets and implementation
deadlines for energy conservation, waste reduction,and other environmental activities, and clarifies themedium-term action plan for the entire Casio Group.
Efforts are underway to implement the plan.
The facing page presents the June 2002 revisions
to the Environmental Action Plan.

FY2001 Progress on the Casio Group’s Environmental Action Plan “Clean & Green 21” Initiative
Product-related initiatives
Items

FY2001 Targets

FY2001 results

Newly added targets for FY2002

Eco-friendly productdevelopment target

FY2003
Green products accountfor 30% of sales

Green products account for 3% ofsalesContinuing
20% reduction in packaging material
use by FY2003 (compared to FY2000)

Hazardous substancephaseout target

From FY2001, gradually increase
products using lead-free solder

Already began using lead-free solder in products during FY2001

Removed from FY2002 targets

Totally phase out leaded solder by
FY2004

Calculator: Eco-friendly calculators
Watch: G-SHOCK

Continuing
Discontinue by 2005 the use of thesubstances lead, cadmium, mercury, and hexavalent chromium
specified in the RoHS Directive*

FY2001 Targets

FY2001 results

Newly added targets for FY2002

Energy conservation
targets

Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions perunit manufactured compared to
FY1990FY2005 10% cut
FY2010 25% cut

Increased 19.2% over previous year
largely owing to increased energy use
in the pre-production operation andadjustment in conjunction with enlargement of Casio Micronics (Yamanashi) and Kochi Casio. FY2005 target attainment appears likely becauseof smooth production start.

Continuing

Waste reduction targets

Achieve zero emissions (no landfilled wastes) by FY2005.

Thanks to sorting, recycling, and otherefforts, wastes landfilled in FY2001
were 269 t, down 75% from the 1,087 t
of FY2000. Target attainment onschedule because of intensified efforts.

Continuing

FY2005
Reduce waste generation per unit manufactured by 30%(compared to FY2000).

Thanks to sorting, recycling, and otherefforts, 5,581 t of wastes were generated in FY2001, down 1,033 t (15.6%)
from the 6,614 t of FY2000. Althoughpartly attributable to decreased production, a 6% drop in waste generation perunit manufactured over the previous
year indicates steady progress.

Continuing

Phase out use of CFC substitutes*
in the group by the end of FY2001.

By the end of FY2001, the Casio Group
had met its goal of completely phasingout CFC substitutes.

Removed from FY2002 targets

Phase out use of CFC substitutes at
all production sites including subcontractors by end of FY2002.

Currently used by some suppliers (2domestic companies, 1 overseas), but
total phaseout scheduled for the endof September 2002.

The phrase “phaseout by end of2002” expanded to include newsubcontractors and changed to “besure of phaseout by end of 2002.”

By FY2005 detoxify PCB-containing
equipment in storage.

The Casio Group has 19 capacitors (4still in use) and 258 small ballasts fluorescent lamp that contain PCBs.
Best detoxification method underconsideration.

Continuing

Gain certification under ISO 14001(environmental management
system)All Casio Group overseas production sites
acquire certification by end of FY2001.

All major domestic and overseas sites
initially planned to do so had certification by the end of FY2001.

Removed from FY2002 targets

Green procurement
implementation targets

FY2003
Green procurement rateof 80% from domestic suppliers

Domestic site suppliers had 61%
green procurement rate (as of end of
May 2002).

Continuing

Facility-related initiatives
Items

Glossary

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Hazardous substancephaseout targets

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Total of 10 product types

Substances designated by the RoHS Directive

CFC Substitutes

Emission / Waste generation per unit manufactured

Hazardous substances designated by the
Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS)
Directive, which will likely take effectthroughout the EU in 2006. The substances
are lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalentchromium, PBBs (polybrominated biphenyls),
and PBDEs (polybrominated diphenyl ethers).

Substances used in the semiconductor
manufacturing process for cleaning and as
refrigerants in refrigerators and otherappliances in place of CFCs, which
deplete the ozone layer. They includehydrofluorocarbons (HFCs).

CO2 emission per unit manufactured (t CO2/¥1
million), obtained by dividing CO2 emissions (tCO2) by production (¥1 million), and waste
landfilling per unit manufactured (t/¥1 million),obtained by dividing wastes generation (t) byproduction (¥1 million).

Green Products through Product Assessment
Making Ecologically Compatible Products
Under its Casio Voluntary Plan for the Environment(CVPE), the Casio Group conducts productassessments of new products. In May 2001 wecreated the “Casio Guidelines for Green ProductDevelopment”* to clarify standards for taking theenvironment into account and to facilitate the makingof eco-compatible products. In accordance with theseguidelines we prepare product environmental audit
sheets that are used to conduct product assessmentsfrom the planning stage.

Product Assessment Process
Product assessments are conducted at threestages: the first at the product planning stage, thesecond when determining the design, and the third
when deciding to start mass production.
Assessment results are audited and confirmed by
the Quality & Environment Center.

Product Assessment Results

2002* Casio Group Guidelines for Green Product Development
These guidelines establish procedures for auditing and assessing theprocess of making eco-compatible products at every stage from product planning to design for the development of environmentally soundproducts (Casio Green Products).

FY2000 results

FY2001 results

60

121

Electronic Component Division products

61

45

Total

121

166

How Product Assessments Work
Product assessments comprise the two components ofenvironmental design and environmental compliance.
Assessing environmental design involves rating basic ecocompatible design such as design for easy recyclability, whileassessing environmental compliance entails determining how
much more advanced a product’s environmental design isthan previous or competing products in terms of energy andresource conservation, elimination of lead, and otherconsiderations. Products that satisfy both standards, or that
qualify for a type I eco-label (Eco Mark, Blue Angel, etc.)
become authorized “Casio Green Products.”

Environmental Design Assessment

Environmental Compliance Assessment

How good is basic
eco-friendly design?
• Recycling ease, etc.

How advanced in terms of
eco-friendly design?
• Energy and resource savings,
no lead, etc.

Assessment

Product environmental audit sheets

In-house Standards for Green Products
1. Consumer Product Assessment Contents
Minimum required score is 90 out of total 100 points.
1

Material labeling for recycling

2

Easily recyclable structure3

Use of common type of resin

4

Easy disassembly

5Easy battery recycling

6

Reuse of packaging materials

7

No hazardous chemicals

8

Segregated packaging materials

9

Use of recycled resources

10

Purchased from green supplier

11

Production facility uses no CFC substitutes or chlorine-based solvents

Qualification under at least two of five items

Environmental compliance assessment• Musical instruments• Digital cameras• Cellular phones• Timepieces(clocks, watches)• Electronic dictionaries• Electronic stationery• Electronic calculators• LCD TVs
• PDAs (personal use)

Environmental design assessment

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Product type
Electronics Equipment Division products

1Resource-saving, recyclability: products other than timepieces (watches)
Safety (allergies): timepieces (watches)

2

Energy conservation

3

Good disassembly for easy part sorting, shortened
disassembly time4

Resource-saving and easily recyclable packaging

5

No hazardous substances: lead solder, halogenatedflame retardants, PVC, etc.

2. System Products Assessment Contents
Qualification under at least two of nine items

Minimum required score is 90 out of total 900 points.
1

Energy conservation

2

Reducing resource use

3

Reuse

4

Recycling

5

Easy processing

6

Environmental soundness

7

Packaging materials

8

Information disclosure

9

User manuals, catalogs, etc.

Environmental compliance assessment

Environmental design assessment• Printers• Handheld terminals• Office computers• PCs• PDA/HPC (for business users)• Slip issuing system(Rakuichi)• Electronic cash
registers/POS terminals

1

Top runner in resource savings

2

Top runner in energy savings

3

Top runner in environmental burden

4

No lead5

No hazardous substances

6

No chrome

7

No PVC

8

Qualified for energy-saving label

9

Recovery/recycling

Casio Green Products (Environmentally Conscious Products)
Some Authorized Green Products
Eco-friendly Calculator
This Earth-friendly photocell-powered calculator’s case is made of 100% recycled materials, and it contains no hazardous substances. It
is an early example of the use of lead-free solder.

Solar-powered and Radio-Controlled Watch
ing the standard time signal, but also needs nobattery because it is powered by the sun. Its silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology reduces thecircuit packaging area and power consumption

Casio’s advanced high-density
packaging technology (multi-chipmodule, or MCM*) substantiallyreduced the circuit packaging area by about 70%.
We also achieved an approximate one-third
reduction in power consumption and noise. The
camera harmonizes technology and ecology, and it
has an easily recyclable stainless steel case.
* MCM: A technology that modularizes four chips —CPU, ASIC, SRAM, and flash memory — at the siliconchip level.

(LSI section uses 50% less power than before).
* SOI: A C-MOS IC wafer structure in which circuits are set in a thinoxidized layer on a Si substrate.

70%
smallerLabel Printer Eco-tape
The spent cartridge recovery and recycling
formerly only for corporate users has now been extended to all products (excluding special products).
The cartridges now use 100% recycled materials,
and we actively promote recovery and recycling
even from general consumers through retail stores.

EXILIM

Our former model

MCM (multi chip module)

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2002

Products Using Lead-free Solder*As part of our efforts to reduce hazardous
substances harmful to human health and theenvironment, in 1999 our Eco-friendly calculators
began using lead-free solder, whose use has now
expanded to 10 models. In 2002 Casio was first to use
this solder in watches.
Casio set a target of totally phasing out leaded
solder by FY2004, and we are currently assessing thereliability of lead-free solder in various products.

G-SHOCK

Eco-friendly calculator

Boosting Sales of Green Products to 30% of Total
Casio plans to boost sales of Green Products to
30% of total sales on a value basis in FY2003.
By pursuing this goal, we are endeavoring to
make products in which the environment is added
value.

Ratio of green products in total sales
First target
30%

30%
20%

20%
10%
3%

2001

2002

2003

Ratio of green products in total sales

Glossary

Lead-free Solder
Currently used solder is an alloy of tin and lead, which isfrowned upon environmentally because lead leaches out

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This watch not only keeps accurate time us-

Credit-card-sized
LCD Digital Camera

of discarded printed circuit boards. Lead-free solder dispenses with lead, ahazardous heavy metal, and combines tin with silver, copper, or other metals.

New Vision of Green Products

2002

Fuel Cells: A New Environmentally Benign Power Source
processing technology and condensing our“microreactor technology,” we succeeded in making the reformer into a postage stamp-sized plate,thereby achieving both compactness and highperformance. This fuel cell’s continuous use timeis at least four-fold that of the usual rechargeable
Li-ion batteries, and it weighs about half as much.
(This comparison assumes the cell is used with a
Casio notebook PC.)

The long, slim part is the fuel cell.

Casio reports the environmental burden of green products as found by life cycle assessments (LCAs).*This table shows the results of an environmental
burden analysis using the simple LCA method on ourmodel JS-20 Keco-N Eco-friendly calculator. Fivestages are covered: materials procurement, productmanufacture, transport/distribution, use, and recy-cling/disposal. Environmental burden is indicated quantitatively.

Eco-friendly calculator (JS-20 Keco-N)

Eco-calculator life cycle assessment analysis results (one calculator)
Category

Use (inputs)

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In March 2002 Casio successfully completed
the research and development for a small, highperformance fuel cell. Further development isunderway for use in products in 2004.
Fuel cells generate power through a reaction
between the hydrogen in alcohol, etc. on the one
hand, and oxygen in the air on the other hand.
There is no troublesome charging because one cankeep using them by supplying more fuel.
Fuel cell types are the “direct type,” which is
structurally simple but low-output, and the“reformer type,” which produces high output but isstructurally complex and difficult to make small.
Casio worked on reducing the size of the reformer
type, which extracts hydrogen from its fuel, so thatit can be combined with portable informationequipment. By applying our unique semiconductor

Soil
Atmospheric Water
emissions emissions emissions

Emissions (outputs)

Environmental
burden type
Energyconsumed
Fossil fuels*3
Mineral resources*4
Wood
Water
CO2
SOx
NOx
BOD
COD
Solid wastes (dry)Sludge (wet)Waste liquids

Stage
Units

Materials
procurement

Product
manufacture

Transport/
distribution*5

Use*6

Recycling/
disposal

Stage total*7

MJ*1
Mcal*2
kg
kg
kg
kg
kg
g
g
g
g
kg
kg
kg

31.57
7.54
0.54
0.19
0.14
116.08
8.41
7.76
7.89
–
0.08
0.02
0.04
–

85.66
20.45
1.83
0.00
–
2.12
5.50
0.34
3.05
–
–
0.00
–
–

0.05
0.01
0.00
0.00
–
–
0.00
0.00
0.00
–
–
0.00
–
–

0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.22
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
–

0.21
0.05
0.00
0.00
–
0.05
0.10
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.01
0.22
0.00
–

117.49
28.05
2.37
0.19

0.00: Calculated value is comparatively negligible.
–: Data cannot be calculated or estimated.

Glossary*1 MJ (megajoules): 106 J (1J = 4.19 x 1 cal).
*2 Mcal (megacalories): 106 cal (*1 and *2 areboth heat quantity units).
*3 Fossil fuels: coal, petroleum, and natural gas.
*4 Mineral resources: iron ore, copper ore,bauxite, etc.

14.23
8.10
10.94

0.24

*5 Transport distance is set at 100 km.
*6 Usage time is assumed to be 10 years.
*7 Results for all stages are totaled only for thoseenvironmental burden types whose cells include no“–” but contain numerical values.
Stages with a “–” have no totals in their total cells.

Life cycle assessment (LCA)
A method of quantitatively assessing the environmental
burden imposed by a single product over its entire lifetime

including materials procurement, product manufacture, transport/distribution, use, and recycling/disposal.

Reducing the Use of Resources in Packaging
Benefitting the Environment through Packaging Innovation
The Casio Group works mainly through its Packaging Committee to reduce the amount of packaging
used, to use recycled resources, and to make packaging smaller. The entire group actively strives to diminish

environmental burden by extending this initiative from improvement of individual packages to thereform of packaging distribution.

1. Packaging-related Environmental Initiatives

Design Center
5. Using Recycled Materials
Hideki Sakurai, Section Manager• Increase use of recycled paper- Increase use of pulp molds- Increase use of recycled paper through aclosed system*

Packaging Committee• Cut use of packaging materials• Reduce use of polystyrene foam
Switch from polystyrene foam to paper-based materials.

• Use of recycled resources

Increase use of recycled paper through a closed system
Recovery of
wastepaper

Actively use recycled paper and resins.

Raw materials• Returnable packaging
Use same packaging repeatedly (in an effort to eliminate wastes)

Used paper

Papermaking
process

Processing

Paper
SludgeClipped waste
paper,testprinted paper

Packagingboxes• LCA research
Use LCA data to develop packaging with low environmental burden.

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Make 20% cut in amount of packaging material usedby the end of FY2003 (compared to FY2000).

2. Total packaging used in FY2001(Packaging materials used: total emissions of plastics, polystyrene foam, paper, cardboard)
14,000Tons

12,000FY200010,000FY20018,000

Compared

Emission Emission to previous

6,000

year

4,000

Packaging 12,270
total

2,000
0

FY200010,51386%

FY2001

2,000

Tons

1,600

FY2000FY2001

1,200

Compared

Emission Emission to previous

800

year

400

Plastics

1,403

1,083

77%

0

FY2000FY2001< Name Land >Resin use cut 50% by changing packaging form and materials.

4. Amount of polystyrene foam used in FY2001
500

Tons

400

FY2000FY2001300

Compared

Emission Emission to previous

200

year

100

Polystyrene
foam

0

FY2000

406

291

72%

FY2001< Printing calculator >Switching from polystyrene foam cushioning material to pulp molds

Glossary

Since June 2001 we have been recycling
documents discarded from the Hamura Research &Development Center and using them as packages
for G-SHOCK watches. Paper used in the center fordesigning and administrative tasks is collected in
special recycling boxes and sent to packaging
manufacturers, that make it into boxes for products.
For even greater environmental friendliness, weelected not to apply coatings that would make thepackaging harder to recycle. Although non-coatedpaper board has the drawbacks of poor coloring andgloss, we took advantage of those characteristics toproduce a design of subdued sophistication.
6. Packaging-related LCA initiatives
When designing packaging, we have to consider
how serious is the environmental burden produced,
give quantitative values to material selection,
processing, production, disposal, and other items,
and then find ways to decrease them.
Our concrete efforts for this purpose were to
calculate LCA values for each packaging type, andcreate environmental burden determination criteria
allowing us to predict the magnitude of environmental
burden when designing the packaging.
From now on we shall use that LCA data infurther efforts to develop and improve packaging
with a lower environmental burden.

Closed system
This describes a closed loop in which in-house use ismade of recycled materials that use Casio-made packag-

ing materials and other items as part of their raw materials.

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3. Amount of resin materials used in FY2001

Reused watch boxes

Thorough Environmental Management
The Thinking Behind Environmental Management
The environmental management system (EMS)
is an important tool that places each company
department into one of the parts of our PDCA
(Plan-Do-Check-Action) cycle, and brings about
environmental management through continual
improvement of environmental initiatives.
The Casio Group strives, both as a group andat individual facilities, to diminish environmental
burden.
The Casio Voluntary Plan for the Environment(page 7) and the Environmental Action Plan (page8) are seen as a group-wide plan. Each facility
uses its environmental management system toprovide for continual improvement and to reduce
its environmental burden.

Casio’s environmental conservation system
Casio Environmental Conservation Committee
Chairman, vice president, co-chairman, Managing Director Shimizu

ACTION

PLAN

Casio Environmental Conference

Promotion Office

CHECK

PLAN

Environmental Audit Organizations

Special Committees

Implementation Organization
Divisions, Head Office, facility staff members, branches, sales offices,
domestic and overseas sales companies, group companies

DO
Roles
Casio Environmental
Conference

Special Committees

Implementation Organizations

2002

Promotion OfficeEnvironmental Audit Organization

Deliberates on and decides Casio Group’s environmental policy and action plan
Exchanges information with Special Committees and Implementation Organization on state of activities, environmental trends, etc.
Promotes strategic themes that entire group works on together;
comprises the following four Special Committees• Packaging Committee• Green Procurement Committee• Eco-Product Development Committee• Environmental Accounting Committee
Implements environmental conservation activities
Plans Casio Group’s environmental policies, action plan, and conservation rules
Provides information on domestic and overseas environmental trends
Runs the Casio Environmental Conservation Committee
Internally audits how well environmental conservation activities are being carried out

Casio Environmental Conference

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The Casio Environmental Conference meets
twice a year to discuss and decide policies, plans,
and other matters relating to the Casio Group’s
environmental conservation activities. By pursuingthese in an integrated manner, the Conference
endeavors to enhance environmental conservation.

Environmental Education
1. Total Environmental Education and Seminars
Casio conducts environmental education andawareness activities making it possible to beconstantly mindful of the environment. New
employees are given general environmental education
before being assigned. General education gives all
employees a thorough awareness of environmental
issues and policies, goals, plans, and the like, while
specialized education gives intensive procedural
training to employees whose tasks have heavy
environmental burden. Casio also provides the latest
information on environmental laws and regulations,
ISO 14001-related matters, the Casio Voluntary Planfor the Environment, industry trends, and otherenvironment-related items. Through other activities,
such as the inclusion of articles on environmental

Glossary

activities in our in-house monthly magazine (page 25),
Casio works to raise its employees’ consciousness
and give them shared expertise.

2. Site-specific Education and Seminars
Individual facilities that have obtained ISO 14001
certification endeavor to improve environmental
awareness and knowledge through general andspecialized education conducted separately for
general employees, managers, environmental officers,
and other distinct employee categories.
In FY2001 our efforts included tours of individual
facilities at environmentally advanced companies,
tours of final waste disposal sites, participation inclasses on controlling global warming, and participation in energy conservation training sessions.

ISO 14001
An international standard containing requirements for acompany or an organization to set its own environmental
policy and to construct a mechanism (environmental

management systems) for implementing, on a continual basis, a series ofprograms including planning, implementation operation, checking andcorrective action, and management review.

Obtaining ISO 14001 Certification

Casio conducts environmental risk management
activities through the operation of ISO 14001 environmental management systems.

• Complaints and Accidents
In FY2001 there were no environment-related
complaints or accidents.

• PRTR*
Each facility prepares a manual in accordancewith the revised edition (March 2001) of the PRTR
guidelines for the electric and electronics industry.
Facilities track each substance and submit reports
for substances whose emissions exceed prescribed
levels.

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The Casio Group has endeavored to get eachfacility certified because it believes that ISO 14001
certification is an effective means to standardize ingroup environmental management systems and towork on continual improvement of environmental
conservation activities.
In FY2001 certification was acquired by Casio Softin Japan, and by the overseas sites Asahi Electronics(Thailand) Co., Ltd., Casio (Taiwan) Ltd., and Casio
Electronics (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.
Already during FY2002 Casio Techno Co., Ltd. inJapan and Casio Electronics (Zhongshan) Co., Ltd. in
China have completed certification. Our certified
facility total now stands at 13 domestic facilities and12 overseas facilities.

Risk Management• PCB-containing Equipment in Storage
ISO 14001-certified Facilities
Sites

As of June 2002

When certified

Overseas

Jan 1997

Yamagata Casio Co., Ltd.

Nov 1997

Kofu Casio Co., Ltd.

Jan 1998

Kochi Casio Co., Ltd.

Mar 1988

Casio Electronic Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Sep 1999

Casio Refre Co., Ltd.

Jan 2000

Casio Micronics Co., Ltd.

Mar 2000

Casio Computer Co., Ltd., Tokyo Product Control and Technical Center

Jun 2000

Casio Computer Co., Ltd., Hamura Research & Development CenterOct 2000

Casio Computer Co., Ltd., Hachioji Laboratory

Oct 2000

Casio Computer Co., Ltd., Head Office

Dec 2000

Casio Soft Co., Ltd.

Dec 2001

Casio Techno Co., Ltd.

May 2002

Casio Korea Co., Ltd.

Apr 1998

Casio Electromex S.A. de C.V.

Dec 1998

Casio Computer (Hong Kong) Panyu FactorySep 1999

Casio Computer (Hong Kong) Ltd.

Dec 1999

Casio (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd.

May 2000

Asahi Industries (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd.

Aug 2000

Casio Electronics (Zhuhai),Sep 2000

Pt. Asahi Electronics Indonesia

Feb 2001

Casio (Thailand) Co., Ltd.

Sep 2001

Casio Taiwan Ltd.

Dec 2001

Casio Electronics (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.

Feb 2002

Casio Electronics (Zhongshan) Co., Ltd.

Apr 2002

Glossary• Hazardous Air Pollutants
The Casio Group uses none of the 13
substances specified for control in the “Guidelines
for Promoting Self-imposed Control of Hazardous
Air-polluting Substance by Companies” establishedin October 1996 by the Ministry of Economy, Tradeand Industry.

• Groundwater Monitoring
We perform regular tests of groundwater quality
at regular intervals every year, but we have yet todetect hazardous substances exceeding thestandard values.

PRTR
The Pollutant Release and Transfer Register for chemical substances that may be hazardous to human healthand the ecosystem is a program under which the gov-

ernment uses information from reports submitted by businesses to compile
data on the transfers of substances and their releases to the air, water, and
soil.

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Domestic

Aichi Casio Co., Ltd.

As of the end of FY2001, four Casio Groupfacilities had a total of 19 capacitors (four still inuse) and 258 small ballasts fluorescent lamp that
contain PCBs. The capacitors are kept in special
storage boxes to keep them from tipping over, andthe small ballasts are kept in stainless steel barrels.
All are under strict safekeeping that includes regularinspections. Increases since FY2000 includes spentunits that were put in storage.

Green Procurement in Japan and Overseas

2002Green Procurement by the Casio GroupPursuant to its Casio Group Green Procurement
Standard Manual, the Casio Group preferentially buys
components with low environmental burden from ecoconscious suppliers. Casio asks all its suppliers of
products, components, and raw materials to assess
the state of ISO 14001-based environmental
management systems in their production facilities, andthe energy- and resource-saving qualities, recyclability,and hazardous chemical substance content of
products for purchase. We started this research in
FY2000. Its results are put into a database and usedas criteria for the preferential procurement of green
components and for green product development.
Casio gives the name “green suppliers” tofactories that meet our environmental standards, andthe name “green components” to components that are
produced at those factories and that meet ourstandards. The proportion in monetary terms of green
components in total part purchasing from regularsuppliers is defined as our “green procurement ratio.”

To help push the green
procurement ratio higher, we
determine three internal indicators
called “green operation rate,”“green supplier ratio,” and“green component ratio.”

Green Procurement Committee
Plan-execution Section
Strategic Procurement Division

Hiroshi Yamada, Director

Green procurement ratio (%) =Green components purchasing (¥)
Total components purchasing (¥)

100

Green procurement ratio (domestic facilities)%
100

FYE Mar 2003 targetFYE Mar 2002 target

80%
70%

61%
55%
50

0
Dec 31, 2001
results

May 31, Dec 31,
2002
2002 target
progress to date

Dec 31,
2003 target

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FY2001 Achievements
Our domestic facilities’ green procurement ratio at
the end of FY2001 was 55% (that year’s target was50%), and we are now working to attain 70% at theend of FY2002. We have also published an overseas
edition of our Casio Group Green Procurement
Standard Manual, and have begun green procurementat our overseas production facilities.
A green procurement presentation in China

Future Initiatives
We shall continue efforts to raise our green
procurement ratio to attain the environmental action
target of “80% domestic green procurement ratio in
FY2003.” While preferentially purchasing green
components, we shall request improvements ofsuppliers not yet meeting standards, and ask forcooperation from suppliers that have yet to respond.
Casio Group Green Procurement includes
investigating the content of chemical substances ofpotential harm to the environment. We havedesignated 9 banned substances and 18 substances
for reduction. Components containing banned

Glossary

substances must not be purchased, and we cooperatewith suppliers in decreasing any substances for
reduction found in their components. We plan todatabase this information and use it to reduce
hazardous chemical substances in products, tocomply with WEEE, RoHS,* and other environmental
laws and regulations, and to obtain eco-labels.
These data are maintained and managed so thatthe assessment database will allow us to correctly
choose parts and materials with low environmental
burden at the development and design stages.

WEEE & RoHS
European Union directives on electric and electronicequipment. They require the recovery and recycling of

discarded equipment, and prohibit the inclusion of lead, cadmium, mercury,hexavalent chromium, PBDEs, and PBBs in products.

Improving Distribution Efficiency
Current Initiatives

Future Initiatives
1. Joint Delivery

Our policy is to switch to rail freight transport fromtrucks, which impose a heavy environmental burden.
Our achievements so far:

In cooperation with distribution companies affiliated withother manufacturers, Casio iscurrently pursuing joint delivery
Logistics Department
Business System Headquarters
to large retailers in certain areas
Yasuyuki Tsukamotoin Tokyo and other places.
From now on Casio will actively continue and expand
joint delivery for both internal and sales distribution.

1) Utilization rate
By volumetric ratio, 22% of our freight goes byrail container, and 78% goes by truck. These percentages are the same as FY2000.
Rail Container and Truck Utilization
100

Utilization (%)

80
60

78

82

78

40
20
0

22

FY2001

Truck transport

Rail container transport

2) CO2 Reduction
Total transport distance decreased 1,392,382 tkm from FY2000. The breakdown of decreases is1,064,665 t-km by rail and 327,717 t-km by truck.
This reduced total CO2 emissions 81 t from FY2000,
the decrease breakdown being 23 t for rail and 58 t
for trucks.
Total CO2 emission

5,943,853

6,383,665
4,991,283

5,000,000
4,000,000
3,000,000
2,000,000
1,000,000

CO2 emission (t)Transport distance (t-km)

6,000,000

500
400

FY1999FY2000

Truck transport

FY2001

Rail containertransport

403

316

200

258

100

80
FY1999101
FY2000

Truck transport

78
FY2001

Rail containertransport

2. Fewer Delivery Trucks
We cut CO2 emission 2.9 t by switching fromchartered trucks especially for Casio products toordinary parcel delivery services.
No. of trucks cut Nine two-ton vehicles
Avg. distance traveled 77.1 km/vehicle/month =925.2 km/vehicle/year

Consumer appliance volume retailer
Company B

Joint delivery truck

Home improvement center
Company C
Supermarket
Company D

16Company A Distribution Center

2. Distribution-inspired Efforts to Improve Packaging Design

300

0

0

Casio Distribution Center

Casio is working on improvements to productpackaging design in an effort to diminish our environmental burden through better distribution efficiency.

600

7,000,000

Specific area:
Joint delivery area

CO2 reduction 2.9 t

Calculation: 9 vehicles x 925.2 km/vehicle/year x 2 t x 48 g-C x 44 / 12 = 2.9 t CO2

1) Smaller box volume• Reconsider external box material: Make cardboard as thin as possible.
• Reconsider excess space in boxes: Reduce
excess space as much as possible withouthindering insertion of product.
• Simplified packaging: Packaging form should
reduce use of materials to the maximum.
• Discontinue inner boxes: Discontinue inner boxes
enclosing small lots, and put products directly
into external boxes.

2) Adopt returnable packaging• Use resin boxboard that can be used many times.
• Use returnable simplified packaging for large products.

3) Review dropping and vibration standards• Reduce box volume and materials through areview of dropping and vibration standards.

Glossary

Modal shift
The freight transport shift from trucks, the current
primary means, to trains and other means that carrylarger volumes in a single load.

2002

Total transport distanceAn example of joint delivery in sales distribution

Freight pickup

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FY200013

FY1999* The Environmental Report
2001 used data for a typical transport route, fromthe Suzuka Distribution
Center to the Tobu Delivery Center.
In the Environmental
Report FY 2002, data for
all transport routes wereused to calculate utilization and total transportdistance.

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1. Modal Shift*Product Recovery and Recycling
Casio Ideas on Recovery and Recycling
Many industrial products are made primarily withresources extracted from underground, such as oiland minerals. Since these resources are limited, it isclear they will be exhausted in the future if people
continue extracting them as now. It is essential that
we quickly reduce the further extraction of resources
while reusing those which we already have.
Casio began recovering corporate-user tapecartridges from our Label Printer electronic stationeryin FY1999, and printer drums and toner sets forprinters in FY2000.
In FY2001 we started recovering PCs, informationand communications equipment, and rechargeable
batteries from corporate users, and in FY2002 webegan recovering the tape cartridges from consumerlabel printer appliances.

Specific Actions for Recovery and Recycling

2002

1. Recovery and recycling of PCs and other products• Recovered products: Casio PCs, Servers, Workstations, Printers, Monitors, Handheld terminals,
Electronic Cash Registers/POS terminals, andother information and communications equipment.

Procedure for Recovery and Recycling of PCs and Other Products

Deliverytruck Recovery

Delivery of unit

Deliverytruck

Iron/steel
Nonferrous metals(aluminum, copper)

ABS resin

Recycling contractor

Job order
Fee
Prepayment

Local sales
officeCorporate user

Estimate
Invoice
Other documents

Recovery
instructions

Parcel delivery company
order receiving center

RecoveryrequestCasio recycling
receiving center

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With the idea that promoting recovery andrecycling necessitates creating a program by which
one visits customers to take back used products, we
worked out a take-back program with a parcel
delivery company last year, and on February 21, 2002
launched a full-scale take-back program for corporate
users (see flowchart below).
Recycling of recovered products started last year,
and we have attained a 96.7% recycling rate for PCs.
With plastic resins, for example, ABS resin is reused
as a raw material. Other resins* that we werepreviously unable to reuse as raw materials are usedas the protective covers for optical fibers and othersignal cables, as tire stops in parking lots, and otherapplications.

Other resins*
Disassembly,
recycling

Wires
Printed circuit boards
Glass
RubberRechargeable batteries
Final disposal

2. Recovery and Recycling of Consumables
1) Printer Drums and Toner Sets
We provide free take-back services for corporate-users (See flowchart below).

Procedure for Recovery and Recycling of Printer Drums and Toner Sets

Reuse

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Deliverytruck

Shipping ofrecycled product

DeliveryCasio factory

Deliverytruck Recovery

Local sales
officeCorporate user

Job order

Recycling contractor

Parcel delivery
company order
receiving center

Recovery request,
recovery instructions

2) Tape cartridges of label printer electronic stationery
In addition to recovery of cartridges from corporate users, we began recovering them from consumers via
retailers in June 2002 (see flowchart below).

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Procedure for Recovery and Recycling of Label Printer Tape Cartridges

Film

Recovery and Recycling of Rechargeable Batteries
Rechargeable batteries are used to power PCs, digital cameras, andother products. Their materials include nickel (Ni), cadmium (Cd), cobalt(Co), lead (Pb), and other scarce resources. Creating good programs andrecycling are important for using these resources without wasting them.
Casio is a member of JBRC. We have put secondary battery
recovery boxes in service stations and other locations and seek to gain
the cooperation of retail stores and consumers in battery recovery andrecycling.

Glossary

Thermal recycling
Use of heat from combustion of wastes that cannot berecycled otherwise.

Rechargeable Battery
Recycling symbols

NiCd
Battery

NiMH
Battery

Li-ionSmall sealed
Battery lead-acid battery

These are recycle symbols on batteries.

Put them in this box at the store.

2002

Resin

Thermalrecycling*

Retailer/consumer

DeliveryRecovery truck

Disassembly/crushing

Recycling

Recovery box

Casio factory

Corporate user

Metal (SUS)Publicly Disclosed Environmental Accounting

2002

For FY2001 our accounting was performed under the 2002 version of the Ministry of the Environment’s “Environmental Accounting Guidebooks.”• Environment-Related Capital Investments and Costs• Economic Benefit of Energy and Resource Conservation

Environment-related capital investment in FY2001
amounted to ¥1,545 million owing to an investment by theElectronic Component Division of about ¥1,200 million in
Kochi Casio’s new Plant 3rd.
Electronics Equipment Division investment was ¥24
million in FY2001, down from the ¥229 million in FY2000,
which included ¥200 million by Casio Electronic Manufacturing Co., Ltd. Total investment therefore came to ¥1,569
million, for a substantial increase over FY2000.
Total costs came to ¥949 million, for a slight increaseof ¥52 million over the previous year. The reason that the
management activity cost component decreased ¥32
million was that in FY2000 many facilities completed their
ISO 14001 certification.
Resource cycling costs alone grew ¥18 million, but
the breakdown contains that costs for waste reduction
and recycling were up ¥68 million over the previous year,
while those for final waste disposal declined ¥54 million,
indicating that zero-emission efforts are paying off.

Overall, economic benefit was down ¥35 million to ¥279
million, which was because the cost-cutting effectiveness ofenergy conservation showed a considerable decline of ¥225 million
due to increased utility costs. This is the result of an electricity
charges increase of ¥190 million over the previous year due to, in
the Electronics Equipment Division, the expansion of operations at
Casio Electronic Manufacturing, and, in the Electronic Component
Division, the startup of Kochi Casio’s 3rd Plant and the start of a
new business at Casio Micronics’ Yamanashi facility.
Meanwhile, a total savings of ¥204 million over FY2000 was
attained through cost reduction by resource reuse, waste cost
reduction, and cost reduction by resource conservation.

Millions of yen

Capital investment amount

Costs

Electronic Component Division Electronics Equipment Division

Total

2000

2001 Change 2000

Business area
costs

CASIO Environmental ReportThanks to the increased recovery of printer drums and tonersets by Casio Electronic Manufacturing, our overall amount ofreused and recycled resources increased 424 t, and the amountof landfill decreased 818 t. Total CO2 emissions increased 5,330 t
over the year before, which was the result of increased energy
use by Casio Electronic Manufacturing, Kochi Casio, and Casio
Micronics’ Yamanashi facility. Water use increased slightly.

Environment-Related Capital Investments and Costs
Category

19• Conservation Benefit(1) Pollution
prevention costs(2) Global environmental costs(3) Resource
circulation costs

Upstream/
downstream costs
Management
activity costs
Research anddevelopment costs
Social activity
costs
Environmental
damage costs
Environmental
conservation cost
total

2001 Change 2000

2001 Change 2000

Electronic Component Division Electronics Equipment Division
2001 Change 2000

435 1,543 1,108

220

20

– 200

655 1,563

908

281

302

21

189

227

300

783

483

211

9

– 202

511

792

281

107

138

31

11

128

650

522

128

650

522

9

18

9

5

7

110

103

16

121

105

165

146

– 19

9

11

1
2

2

1

4

8

2

–1

1

–4

8

–1

6

1

229

436 1,545 1,109

24

–205

67

–1

665 1,569

–2

Total

2001 Change 2000

2001 Change

38

470

529

59

16

5

118

154

36

1

–4

14

19

5

173

210

37

338

356

18

82

114

32

82

114

32

61

–6

146

120

– 26

213

181

– 32

4

4

90

65

– 25

90

69

– 21

–1

15

17

2

27

39

12

42

56

14

904

363

384

21

534

565

31

897

949

52

Note: The table includes only those research and development costs whose main purpose is clearly mitigating environmental burdens. There were no environmental damage costs(such as environmental remediation costs or environmental lawsuit costs).

Capital Investment

Costs

Electronic Component Division

Electronics Equipment Division

FY

FY

2001

2001

Electronic Component Division

Electronics Equipment Division

FY
24

FY
384

2001

2001
565

1,545
2000

0

200

400

600

229

2000

436
800 1,000 1,200 1,400 1,600

0

50

100

150

200

Millions of yen

Pollution prevention
costs

363

2000

250

300

0

100

200

Millions of yen

Global environmental
costs

Resource circulation
costs

Upstream/downstream
costs

Cost reduction by
resource reuse

62

Waste cost reduction
Cost reduction byenergy conservation

92

Cost reduction by
resource conservation
Total effects

7
3

1

41

41

– 117

36
100

1

– 30

– 209

36
– 130

Electronics Equipment Division
2000
2001 Change

– 15

15
185

12

2
214

305

120

4

4

–4

– 16

2

4
309

95

Table includes only economic benefits calculated according to sound premises.

500

600

534
0

100

200

Management activity
costs

300

2000

Costs
2001

Change

21

7

– 14

187

104

2
314

308

121

45

45

– 121

40
279

– 225

38
– 35

Research and development
costs

400

500

600
Millions of yen

Social activity
costs

Environmental Conservation Benefit
Environmental performance items

Units

Sales of used parts,
materials and othervaluable goods

Electronic Component Division
2000
2001 Change

400

Millions of yen

Economic Benefit of Energy and Resource Conservation Millions of yen
Type of benefit

300

2000

Reused/recycled resources (group total)t

Recycling after consumable recovery(Casio Electronic Manufacturing)

FY2000 FY2001

Change fromprevious year

98

522

424

t

165

405

240

t

1,087

269

– 818

84,3355,330

CO2 emissions (9-facility total)*

tCO2 79,005
tCO2 41,733

Water use (group total)

1000m3

2,246

2,399

Landfill (group total)
CO2 emissions (group total)

37,533 – 4,200
153

Nine facilities: Kofu Casio (Head Office and Ichinomiya), Casio
Micronics (Ome), Yamagata Casio, Casio Head Office, Hamura
Research & Development Center, Tokyo Product Control andTechnical Center, Casio Techno, and CCP.

Data Section

Environmental PerformanceThis section on environmental performance deals with items likely having large environmental burdens for the Casio Group as a whole.

CO2 emission

Water Use

90,000 t

t-CO2/¥1 million 0.90
84,33580,00079,005

0.80

2,500

0.70

70,00063,57462,67360,0000.60

56,70450,0000.50

40,0000.40
30,38930,0000.20

10,000

0.10
1990

1998

1999

2000

CO2 emission perunit manufactured

Electronics Equipment Division
Electronic Component Division

1997

1998

500
0

FY2001
Electronic Component Division
Electronics Equipment Division
Overall

1999

2000

Electronics Equipment DivisionDuring the last five years, expansion of the energy-intensive Electronic Component Division has increased CO2
emission. In FY2001 both total emission and emission per unit manufactured were higher than in FY2000 owing
to energy consumption by pre-production adjustment work in conjunction with facility expansion at two sites.

FY2001

Electronic Component Division

Water use increased owing to expansion of the Electronic Component Division,
which uses much pure water in washing processes, but efforts are being made to reduce use through the adoption of closed systems and other means.

Wastes Generated and Landfilled
7,000 tt/¥1 million 0.056
6,614

0.048

6,000
5,581

5,000

4,801
4,405

4,000
3,000

0.032

3,464

2,000

0.040

0.024
0.016

1,901

1,814

1,223

1,000

1,087

0.008
269

0
1997

1998

Wastes generated Right: landfilled
Amount landfilled Left: generated

1999

Electronics Equipment Division
Electronic Component Division

2000

Wastes generated
Landfilling per unit
manufactured

20

0.000

FY2001
Electronic Component Division
Electronics Equipment Division
Overall

2002

More wastes are generated because of higher production, but the amount of landfill decreases year by year thanks to reuse and recycling efforts.

Releases and Transfers of Class I Designated Chemical Substances under the PRTR Law, FY2000 and 2001
FY2000Substance no.

Names of Class I
DesignatedChemicalSubstances

CASIO Environmental Report

CO2 emission

1997

1,734

1,000

0.00

0

1,746

1,500

2,399

2,246

2,104

2,000

0.30

20,0001,000 m3

3,000

No. ofreporting Amountfacilities

Air

Tons

FY2001

Released toTransfer to
ConRe- Recy- No. of
PublicLandfillreporting Amountwater Soil at disposal Sew- Wastes sumption moval cled facilities
supply site at site erage

Air

Released toTransfer to
ConRe- RecyPublic
Landfillwater Soil at disposal Sew- Wastes sumption moval cled
erage
site
supplyat siteAntimony and25
its compounds

1

2.8

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.1

2.7

0.0

0.0

Ethylbenzene 40

1

5.2

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

5.2

Ethyleneglycol

43

1

1.8

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

1.8

0.0

0.0

0.0

Xylene

63

1

91.8

18.4

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

73.4

0.0

0.0

0.0

2

43.4

6.0

37.4

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

2-ethoxyethyl
101
acetate

1

1.4

1.4

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

3

9.9

3.3

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

6.6

0.0

0.0

0.0

1,1-dichloro-1132
fluoroethane *1

1

19.0

18.3

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.5

0.0

0.0

0.2

1

3.1

2.5

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.6

Thiourea

181

2

6.4

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

6.4

0.0

0.0

0.0

2

9.5

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

9.5

0.0

0.0

0.0

Water-soluble
207
copper salts

2

27.2

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

27.2

0.0

0.0

0.0

2

23.8

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

23.8

0.0

0.0

0.0

Toluene

227

1

2.0

2.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

1

2.0

2.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

Lead and its
compounds

230

1

1.3

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

1.3

0.0

0.0

Hydrogenfluoride andits watersoluble salts

283

1

6.9

0.0

3.8

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

3.1

1

5.3

0.3

0.3

0.0

0.0

0.0

4.7

0.0

0.0

0.0

Antimony and its compounds, ethylbenzene, and ethylene glycol were handled in greater amounts due to expanded operations at electronic component facilities in FY2001. Handlingof lead and its compounds grew because of expanded operations at electronic equipment facilities.
0.0: None handled.

Site-Specific Information
FY2001 Site News
Facilities achieving zero emissions
The Casio Group defines landfilling no
more than 1% of one’s wastes as zero emissions, which in FY2001 was achieved by thefollowing three facilities.
• Kofu Casio (Head Office)• Kofu Casio (Ichinomiya)• Casio Micronics (Yamanashi)Commendation Received from Director-Generalof Agency of Natural Resources and Energy
Kochi Casio received a commendation (electricity
category) from the director-general of the Agency of
Natural Resources and Energy as a plant with superiorenergy management. The plant was applauded for its
efforts for energy conservation and management, andfor the energy efficiency of its newly built 3rd Plant.

2002

The use of wastes in eco-cement and thesorting and crushing of waste plastic to makeit usable as blast furnace feedstock substantially reduced the amount of landfilled wasteby the group, from 1,087 t in FY2000 to 269 t
in FY2001.

Entire Group’s landfilled wastes
tons

1,200
1,000

FY2001 group-wide CO2 emissions per unit manufactured rose from 0.423 t CO2/¥1 million to 0.504 t
CO2/¥1 million. The cause was trial operation and adjustments at Casio Micronics (Yamanashi facility) andfacility enlargement at Kochi Casio. Once production
reaches the planned level, emission per unit manufactured is expected to drop below the 1990 level.

800

21

600
400
269

200
0
FY2000CASIO Environmental Report

CO2 emissions per unit manufactured

1,087

FY2001

Please see this Web page for details on environmental performance.

URL : http://www.casio.co.jp/env/activity/performance.html

Group-wide environmental facts
Casio Group (as a whole)

Electricity

144.13 million kWh

Fuel8,852 kl

Water

2,399,000 m

Chemicals

112,056 kg

crude oil equivalent

INPUT(under PRTR Law)3

CO284,334.9 t

NOx

20.6 tSOx

9.3 t

Soot and dust

0.9 t

OUTPUT
Effluent
BOD
Waste generation
Landfill

2,130,500 m3
16.3 t
5,581.2 t
268.8 tRatio of landfill to waste generation 4.8%

Glossary

Zero emissions
If the annual amount of wastes given final disposal
divided by the amount of wastes generated in that same

year yields a value of under 1%, the unit generating the wastes is considered
to have achieved zero emissions.

Casio’s business can be broadly categorized into an Electronic Component Division and an Electronics Equipment Division.
Electronic Component Division

Electronics Equipment Division

Percentage of
Casio total

Fuel

7,506 kl

crude oil equivalent

91%

Water
2,186,000 m3
Chemicals

98%(under PRTR Law)

109,853 kg

INPUT

80%

67,647.4 t
NOx

87%

18.0 t

22%

SOx

62%

5.8 t
Soot and dust
0.7 t
OUTPUT

Percentage of
Casio total

78%

Effluent
1,933,800 m3

91%

BOD

15%
9%

Water
213,000 m3(under PRTR Law)

2,203 kg

70%

3,882.6 t
Landfilled disposal

1,345 kl

Chemicals
2%

Generated

Fuelcrude oil equivalent97%

15.7 tElectricity
31.3 million kWh

25%

67.1 t

INPUT

CO2
16,687 t

20%

2.6 t

13%

NOx
SOx

OUTPUT

Ratio of landfill to waste
generation
1.7 %

22%

Effluent
196,700m3

9%

BOD

3%

0.5 t
Generated

201.7 tCO2
27,381.9 t

Fuel

8.7 t
SOx
2.3 t
Soot and dust
0.4 t

crude oil equivalent

INPUTOUTPUT

Chemicals

SOx
0.5 t

466 klSoot and dust
0.0 t

crude oil equivalent

INPUT

Water

BOD

Chemicals

1.9 t

7,098 kgFuel

OUTPUT

32,000 m3

Effluent
21,300 m3
BOD
0.1 t

(under PRTR Law)

808 kgGenerated

Generated

608 t

Energy consumption is high because of aroundthe-clock TFT LCD production, production equipment operation, clean room air conditioning, etc.

291.6 tLandfilled disposal

28 t
Ratio of landfill to waste
generation
4.6 %Landfilled disposal

Assembly of digital cameras and cellular phones
requires low energy.

CO2

14.7 tRatio of landfill to waste
generation
5.0 %

CO2
22,732 t

Casio Micronics

Electricity
39.4 million kWh
Fuel

4.6 t
2.7 t

2,289 kl

crude oil equivalent

Water
817,000 m3

Soot and dust
0.3 t
INPUT

OUTPUT

Chemicals(under PRTR Law)

89,293 kg
Xylene accounts for
42,088 kg

Wafer-level CSP* (W-CSP), a high-density mounting
technology, and COF production are conducted aroundthe-clock. The W-CSP process uses many chemicals.

Glossary

4,592.6 t

Yamagata Casio

NOx
SOx

0.5 t
SOx
2.6 t

432 klSoot and dust
0.1 t

crude oil equivalent

INPUT

Effluent
782,000 m3

Water

BOD

Chemicals

12.2 tNOx

Electricity
8.17 million kWhFuel

OUTPUT

75,000 m3(under PRTR Law)

1,381 kg

Generated

Effluent
69,300 m3
BOD
Public sewerage used

Generated

1,782 t427.7 tLandfilled disposal

29 tRatio of landfill to waste
generation
1.7 %Landfilled disposal

Timepiece and cellular phone production, in addition to molding operations, use much electricity.

18.3 tRatio of landfill to waste
generation
4.3 %Wafer-level CSP
Wafer-level CSP is an advanced technology making it
possible, as an LSI packaging process, for copper

22

1.4 t

Electricity
4.33 million kWh

Effluent
586,900 m3(under PRTR Law)

NOxrewiring and formation of terminals to be performed withresin sealing in the wafer form.

2002

Water
660,000 m3

3,017.1 t

Aichi Casio

NOx3,605 kl

75%

Data for Aichi Casio and Yamagata Casio are presented below as
typical examples of the Electronics Equipment Division.

CO2

Electricity
42.07 million kWh30%

1,698.6 t
Landfilled disposal
Ratio of landfill to waste
generation 11.9 %Data for Kochi Casio and Casio Micronics are presented
below as typical examples of the Electronic Component Division.

Kochi Casio

38%

3.5 t
Soot and dust
0.2 t

CASIO Environmental Report85%

Electricity
112.83 million kWh

CO2Electronics Equipment Division total

78%

Electronic Component Division total

Percentage of
Casio total

Percentage of
Casio total

Environmental Conservation Awards and Activities in Recent Years
Environmental Conservation Awards
Award/commendation nameAwarding body1999 Feb Casio Head Office

Outstanding Energy Management Facility Award from the
Kanto Region Electricity Usage Rationalization Committee

Kanto Region Electricity Usage Rationalization Committee

Hamura Research &Development Center

Best Energy Management Facility Award from the Kanto
Region Electricity Usage Rationalization Committee

Kanto Region Electricity Usage Rationalization CommitteeAward for Distinguished Service by Hazardous Materials
Tokyo Product Control Handling Personnel
and Technical Center Award for Excellence in Activities to Reduce Electricity
2001 Feb
Use

Tokyo Metropolitan Fire Department,
Director of Fire Prevention Division

Year Month2000 Feb

Facility

2000 Nov

2002 Jan Kochi Casio Co., Ltd.

2001 Award for Factory Energy Management Excellence (Electricity Division)
Agency of Natural Resources and Energy Director-General’s Commendation

Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Agency of Natural Resources
and Energy

Hamura Research &Development Center2001 Incentive Prize for Reducing Electricity Use

Tama Area Electricity Usage Rationalization Committee

2002

2002 Feb

Environmental Activities in Recent Years
Year Month
Jun

23

Sep

1999

Oct
Dec

CASIO Environmental Report

Kanto Region Electricity Usage Rationalization Committee

2000

Casio Group Environmental Conservation Activities
Establishment of Casio Group’s Environmental Action Plan “Clean & Green 21” Initiative
Establishment of Green Procurement Guideline
Revision of Casio Voluntary Plan for the Environment (5th Edition)
Initiation of recovery of tape cartridges from corporate-users of electronic stationery label printerPublication of Environmental Report 1999
Exhibit at Eco-Products 1999

Mar

Completed acquiring ISO 14001 certification of all domestic manufacturing facilities

Apr

Introduction of environmental accounting

Jun

Initiation of the full-scale recovery of printer drum and toner sets

Aug

Publication of Environmental Report 2000

Nov
Dec

Publication of “Green Procurement Standard Manual” for suppliers
Completed acquiring ISO 14001 certification at four Casio Computer facilities
Exhibit at Eco-Products 2000
Implementation of Casio Green Products 30 (C.G.P. 30)
Documents discarded by Hamura R&D Center start being recycled into watch product boxes

2001 Aug Publication of Environmental Report 2001
Sep
Dec

Feb

Joined JBRC, and began recycling secondary batteries (rechargeable batteries)
Acquirement of ISO 14001 certification at Casio (Taiwan) and Casio Soft
Exhibit at Eco-Products 2001
Launch of program to recover and recycle used PCs and information/communications
equipment from corporate users
Acquirement of ISO 14001 certification at Casio Electronics (Shenzhen)• Kofu Casio (Head Office)

Mar

2002

• Kofu Casio (Ichinomiya)

Achievement of zero emissions at the three facilities:• Casio Micronics (Yamanashi)

Apr

Discontinuance of use of CFC substitutes at the entire Casio GroupAcquirement of ISO 14001 certification at Casio Electronics (Zhongshan)

May
Jun

• Basic Law for Establishing a Recycling-Based Society enacted• Waste Management and Public
Cleansing Law amended• Law for the Promotion of Utilisation of Recyclable Resources
enacted

Revision of CVPE (6th Edition)

Casio Group Environmental Action Plan “Clean & Green 21 Initiative” revised

Jun

Other events• Law Concerning Special Measures Against Dioxins enacted• Law Concerning Reporting, etc.
of Releases to the Environmentof Specific Chemical Substancesand Promoting Improvements in
Their Management enacted

Acquirement of ISO 14001 certification at Casio Techno Head Office
Initiation of recovery of tape cartridges from consumers of electronic stationery label printer
Revision of Casio Group Environmental Action Plan “Clean & Green 21” Initiative• Law for Recycling of specified
Kinds of Home Appliances
becoming effective• Law Concerning the Promotionof Procurement of Eco-Friendly
Goods and Services by the Stateand Other Entities becoming effective• Law Concerning Special Measure against PCB Waste enacted• Construction Materials Recycling
Act becoming effective• Kyoto Protocol ratified• Soil Contamination Control Law
enactedExpanded Activities to Benefit Society
Financial Support for the Dolphin, Whale and Human Fundreceived support. On June 11 at the Casio Head Officebuilding in Hatsudai we held a lecture and talk by oneof the fund recipients, Dr. Kathleen Dudzinski, who isresearching dolphin communication in the Bahamas.
The event had 126 participants.
I.C.E.R.C Japan homepage: http://www.icerc.org/

CASIO Environmental Report

Casio supports the Dolphin, Whale and Human
Fund of the International Cetacean Education &Research Centre Japan (I.C.E.R.C Japan). This fundsupports education and research efforts by cetacean
researchers throughout the world, and provides
information about those efforts to people in Japan
interested in dolphins and whales. During FY2001 fiveresearch organizations in Japan and other countries

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Lecture and talk by Dr. Kathleen Dudzinski

Mikura Island Bottle-nosed Dolphin
Research Group watch model

2002

Clean-Up Days
Casio strives to conserve the local environment
by keeping the areas around factories clean. During
FY2001 Clean-Ups were held at the Kofu Casio Head
Office, Shirane Plant, and Ichinomiya Facility on July
19 (124 participating employees) and December 28(137 participants).

Clean-Up participants in a forest near the
Ichinomiya Facility of Kofu Casio on December 28.

Financial Assistance by the Casio Science Promotion Foundation
The Casio Science Promotion Foundation provides
financial assistance to support pioneering and original
scientific research. In FY2001 the foundation awarded
a total of ¥49.8 million in 32 research projects in thenatural sciences and 5 in the humanities.

http://www.casio.co.jp/company/zaidan/

Facilitating Environmental Communication
Casio Participates in Eco-Products Exhibit
Eco-Products is an exhibit that brings together ecofriendly products to encourage the building of a market
for them. Casio has participated from the first exhibit.
In this third exhibit, Casio displayed solar-powered andradio-controlled watches and other green products (seep. 10), and also described efforts including its personal
computer and printerdrum and toner set
recovery program,which began full-scale
operation in FY2001,
and its environmental
conservation system.

2002
CASIO Environmental Report

Casio began preparing environmental reports in
1999. Our website offers all the reports issued to date.

http://www.casio.co.jp/env/activity/report.html

Casio’s booth at Eco-Products 2001,
held at Tokyo Big Sight in December 2001.

Information Provided on the Web
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Environmental Reports

House Organ Facilitates Environmental Communication
All Casio Group employees share information on
environmental activities through the house organ.

We created a
website that comprehensively describes
and provides the latest information on
Casio’s environmental
activities.

http://www.casio.co.jp/env/

Lectures on the Environment
Communicating Locally (FY2001)
Title

Date held

Venue

No. of participants/lecturer
73 people (67 non-Casio)

Environmental Study Meeting“Clean Energy”

Feb. 2, 2001

Kofu Casio
Yuki Nara, Edogawa Representative
Head
Office Facility for Citizens Network to Consider

Jul. 6, 2001

38 people
Kofu Casio
Yamanashi Pharmaceutical Association
Head
Office Facility Mikio Kobayashi, Environmental Sani-

Global Warming in Daily Life

“What Is the PRTR?”
Environmental
Lecturestation and Testing Center Director“Safe Food and the Environment:
From Home to the Company,and from the Company to Home”

Environmental Class“Handmade Postcards from Milk Cartons”

Dec. 18, 2001

60 people (4 non-Casio)
Kofu Casio
Head
Kimiko Ashizawa, Yamanashi EcoOffice Facility Network Chairperson

Dec. 22, 2001

Kofu Casio
Head
15 people (6 non-Casio)
Office Facility

Participants made New Year’s cards.

Casio employees and others contemplated
global warming together.

Independent Message
We solicited the views of the International Cetacean Education & Research Centre Japan(I.C.E.R.C Japan), a partner of the international whale and dolphin research activities that Casio
supports, about the Casio Group’s environmental activities and this environmental report.
Since Casio manufactures products like wristwatches and digitalsolder are cited as acameras that are an intimate part of everyday life, it was with great in-

typical example ofterest that I read the report to see how the company is working on“Greenenvironmental conservation.

that have undergone

We are a private volunteer organization conducting research (forProducts”

rigorous product asViews were exchanged at a meeting
before this message was penned.

sessments,

easily understood way) to deepen understanding about cetaceans

would be a big help

and nature. Here I should like to state our view from outside the com-to consumers when choosing products from an environmental per-pany on the role that Casio plays in global environmental conserva-

spective if there were an easy explanation of why using lead is not en-tion and environmental education for consumers.

vironmentally sound. Also, the recovery and recycling of personal

but

it

I still have a fresh memory of when, in 1998, we received acomputers and other products, now in full-scale operation, should

proposal that the watches (G-SHOCK, Baby-G) which support our

cover more products, and be expanded to cover consumer products

programs be packed in paper made from 100% recycled milk cartons,

instead of just those used by businesses.

and in this report I find that Casio is working on “closed systems” andCredit-card-sized LCD digital camera recently put on sale is the“non-coated paper board”. Since packaging is discarded once a

focus of attention for its size and performance, and in fact this camera

person takes out the product, it serves as a good way to get

too meets the criteria for a “Green Product.” I’m hoping that new

consumers to think about the environment. I definitely want Casio to

products appearing from now on -- including successful fuel cells,

continue its efforts toward the use and recycling of materials with awhich the report tells us is the next effort -- will be products that

low environmental burden. Casio might also consider printing anamaze us not only with their technology and sense, but also their eco-explanation about their recycling initiatives on the packaging itself,

friendliness. I have hopes that Casio will continue its unrelenting

and using it as a “mini environmental report.”

efforts toward carrying out the environmental action plan and its broad

With its illustrations, graphs, and other visual aids, I think the re-

CASIO Environmental Reportcorrect understanding) and education (to impart information in an

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initiatives for the environment.

port itself is quite accessible, but perhaps a bit more inventiveness is

Hidekazu Oshita, Representative
International Cetacean Education & Research Centre Japanin order to accommodate the students and children of the generations
following us. For example, “Eco-friendly calculator” using lead-free

2002

Corporate Data (as of March 31, 2002)
Registered name: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
June 1, 1957
Established:
Head Office:6-2, Hon-machi 1-chome, Shibuya-ku,
Tokyo 151-8543, Japan
President:
Kazuo Kashio
Paid-in Capital: ¥41,549 million
Net sales:¥382,154 million (consolidated)

Main lines ofbusiness:

electronic dictionaries, LCD TVs, visual-related products, digital cameras, electronic musical instruments

Timepieces: Digital watches, analog watches, clocks
Mobile Network Solutions (MNS): Mobile PCs, cellular
phones, pocket computers, handheld terminals

System equipment: Electronic cash registers/POS terminals, office computers, page printers

Sales by product category
Others
8.4%
Electronic components
13.4%

Consumer
33.0%¥382,154
million

System equipment
15.2%
Mobile Network Solutions
13.6%

Timepieces
16.4%

Electronic components: LCDs, Bump processing consignments, TCP assembly and processing

Others: Factory automation equipment, molds, toys
Number of employees: 3,408 (non-consolidated), 14,670 (consolidated)
Consolidated companies: 63 subsidiaries (domestic and overseas)
8 equity-method companies (domestic and overseas)

Casio Group Consolidated Financial Highlights
ProfileFY1997
Net Sales
Domestic
Overseas
Operating income
Total assets
Shareholders’ equity
Capital investment
Employees

Consumer: Electronic calculators, electronic stationery,

502,012268,202
233,81037,757537,013
182,657
53,824
18,668FY1998451,141
245,180
205,961
12,551
506,566
170,721
31,212
17,269FY1999410,338
231,181
179,157
19,477507,105
169,634
35,546
19,325

FY2000443,930
269,536
174,394
17,905445,883
162,375
30,27818,119FY2001
382,154
222,684
159,470– 10,418
449,224
134,317
15,737
14,670This logo symbolizes all theenvironmental activities that
the Casio Group must work
on together for the 21st-century global environment.

Contact Information:

Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
Quality and Environment Center
3-2-1 Sakae-cho, Hamura-shi, Tokyo, 205-8555
TEL 042-579-7256 FAX 042-579-7718
E-Mail eco-report@casio.co.jp
http://www.casio.co.jp/env/
Published in August 2002.