2. Business
Welfare Service for People with Disabilities

25Welfare Service Business for People with Disabilities
As Japan’s population ages, issues such as regional employment and a decline in the workingage population are emerging as significant social challenges. The ENVIPRO Group supports theindependence of people with disabilities in terms of employment and community living. We
promote welfare collaboration that connects recycling, agriculture, and people seeking
employment opportunities, aiming to achieve a balance between resolving regional
employment and labor issues.

Welfare Service Business forPeople with Disabilities

Ecommit (Type B Continuous Employment Support Program)Environment–Welfare Cooperation

ASTOCO Locations

In cooperation with the ENVIPRO Group, local businesses, and farms,
this program provides work and wages according to the work
performed. In this way, we create a place where people who havedifficulty working in general companies can participate in society
with confidence and gain a sense of fulfillment as members ofsociety.

A model to address environmental issues by collecting resources from dismantled PCs
EcommitBrightEcommit AkashinaEcommit Toyoshina
BrightMatsumoto

Bright Matsumoto
Ekimae Center
Bright Saitama

Bright (Pre-Employment Transition Support Program)

Ecommit Fujinomiya

People Employed to Date

We provide people with disabilities who are seeking employment
with a curriculum that helps them find employment and assist themin their jobhunting activities. We also support workers retention,
enabling people to remain in work for a long period once they findemployment.

Ecommit(People)

15,00012,512
11,622
9,955
9,577
10,000Bright13,789

7,008

Satellite Work0FY06/21

FY06/22

FY06/23

Fiscal 2022 Results
Average wages (type B continuous employment support program)
Location

Ecommit Akashina
Ecommit Toyoshina
Ecommit Fujinomiya

Average wage

¥34,000¥19,000¥16,000*Wage amounts of ¥100 or less have been truncated.

Number of workers (pre-employment transition support program)
Location

Agriculture–Welfare Cooperation
A model for addressing various agricultural issues by encouraging social participation through engagement in agriculture

5,000

Through this business, we counsel companies and support theefforts of companies seeking to employ people with disabilities.

Ecommit Toyoshina and Ecommit Fujinomiya, which are operated by ASTOCO Inc., conduct recycling operations incooperation with Group companies.
At these locations, we use tools to separate and sort office automation equipment. Their circuit boards contain rare
metals, and by sorting them appropriately, we allow these materials to be reused in the production of futureproducts. Additionally, we strip the coating off copper wires and manually collect rare metals and other valuable
materials from items that have been crushed, playing an effective role in
the recycling process. In addition, we conduct cleaning patrols to ensurethat the Mottainai BOXes provided by SYN ECO Inc. for use by the local
community are pleasant and clean.
These tasks provide fulfilling work for individuals with disabilities who use
our facilities, and also fill a meaningful role in contributing to theenvironment.

Number of workers

Bright Matsumoto

10

Bright Saitama

7

ASTOCO Inc. helps individuals with disabilities to find confidence and fulfillment in work in the agriculture sector,
including vegetable cultivation in local farms and by tending their ownfields. These initiatives also help to address the serious shortage ofagricultural workers. Through Ecommit Akashina, they cultivate crops suchas cucumbers, spinach, and potatoes, promoting local production andconsumption by supplying them to local retail stores. They also engage
actively in community interaction by selling their products at municipal
offices, branch offices, and children’s centers.

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Enviroment Management Consulting

Environment Management Consulting Business
Promoting carbon neutrality and the circular economy has become increasingly important forcorporate management. The ENVIPRO Group provides consulting services to support carbon
neutrality strategies and the development of circular economy models. Additionally, we offer
solutions involving the introduction of renewable energy and the production of green materials
through recycling and regeneration processes.

Environment Management
Consulting BusinessTotal Support for Corporate Decarbonization

Supporting a Transition to the Circular Economy

As the movement toward decarbonization accelerates both in Japan and overseas, it is becoming increasingly
important for companies to consider the impact of climate change on their business operations and to respond tothe risks and opportunities as part of their management strategies. Bright Innovation Co., Ltd. provides consulting
services to help companies manage their decarbonization management. These services include help withinformation disclosure in response to the TCFD recommendations, assistance in improving evaluations from thirdparty institutions such as CDP, as well as solution services such as supporting the introduction of renewableenergy. Bright Innovation also plays a role in advancing the ENVIPRO Group’s environmental management efforts byproviding support for achieving RE100 and facilitating the disclosure of sustainability information.

Social demands for the transition to a circular economy are growing, including efforts in Europe to step up producer
responsibility and moves to formulate economic strategies for domestic resource autonomy. We offer services suchas wide-area collection and circular economy schemes for used products, as well as supporting the collection ofplastic collection for the chemical recycling business. Additionally, through collaboration between the ENVIPROGroup’s Resource Circulation Business and partners, we offer optimal solution proposals for circulating products
and resources.

Steps forImplementing Consulting

Obtain thedesired results(Examples) •Carbon neutral strategy•Roadmap for GHG reduction•Information disclosure based on the TCFD
recommendations, etc.

Internal review by client, consensus building

STEP(implementation phase)3

Environmental DX (Digital Transformation)
Society’s demands for data management and collaboration across the supply chain in the environmental sector
have increased rapidly in recent years. By integrating digital tools, Bright Innovation is enhancing its consulting
services to support
Recycled
companies’ decarbonization
raw materials
Collection
locationTransporter
Processor
efforts. Additionally, we have
Remainder
When?
When?
When?
developed and are managing
What?
What?
What?
Who?
Who?
Who?
a traceability system to track
How much?
How much?
How much?
What did you do with it?
What did you do with it?
What did you do with it?
the flow of resources in the
Person in Data
Person in Data
Person in Datacharge registration
charge registration
charge registration
circular economy (see theTrace route
Traceability systemcenter of the figure on the
Dashboard
Dashboardright). Our efforts aim to
Issuance ofcontrol slip
visualize the ENVIPRO Group’s
About own products
Across the factoryFormFormulate vision for the future, directions

STEP

for improvement, and action planUnderstand the client’s current situation and needs,

clarify issues
Provide the latest trends related to climate change
and sustainability

STEP

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Support for writing and data creation throughdialogue and collaboration

Practical consulting services that leverage our expertise, unique knowledge, experience, and extensive network

contributions to corporate
circular economy models.

Manufacturer’s
representative

Form

Quantity results
CO2 emissions
Recycling results
Individual trace charts
Sankey diagrams

FormProcessor
representative

Quantity resultsCO2 emissions
Recycling results
Individual trace charts
Sankey diagrams