Environmental Report 2017

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Environmental Accounting Data

The JAE Group adopted environmental accounting in fiscal 2002. Quantitatively comparing the cost of environmental activities with their effects helps the Group ensure efficiency.

Fiscal 2016 Data

Costs in fiscal 2016 were largely unchanged from fiscal 2015. Investments increased compared to fiscal 2015 mainly due to capital investments in the area of global warming countermeasures and environmental quality.

●Investments and R&D costs Unit: Thousand yen

Item		Breakdown	Investment amount	Cost
Cost within business area	Pollution control costs	Maintenance and operations, including exhaust gas-scrubbing facilities	0	3,880
		Maintenance and operations, including wastewater treatment facilities	26,890	65,330
		Boiler maintenance and maintenance and operations of other environment-related facilities	0	20,280
		Subtotal	26,890	89,490
	Global environment cost	Expenditures for measures against climate change	137,370	17,870
	Global environment cost	Subtotal	137,370	17,870
	Recycling costs	Investments and expenditures for treating/recycling industrial waste	2,960	66,150
		Investments and expenditures for treating/recycling general waste	390	8,450
		Operation of raw garbage processing machines	0	200
		Investments and expenditures for other waste	6,510	540
		Subtotal	9,860	75,340
	Total for costs within business area		174,120	182,700
Upstream/downstream costs		Expenditures for studying eco-friendliness of products and checking environmental quality	9,420	66,170
Upstream/downstream costs		Subtotal	9,420	66,170
Management activity costs		Labor expenses for dedicated environment personnel, ISO audit expenditures, and environmental activity man-hours in each division, etc.	0	198,160
		Creation of environmental reports and web pages	0	1,960
		Measurement of exhaust gas, wastewater, noise, and groundwater	580	14,250
		Education by position and training in emergency response	0	8,660
		Cleanup and tree planting around each site	0	7,360
		Subtotal	580	230,390
R&D costs		R&D investments and expenditures for complying with chemical substance regulations	0	5,250
		R&D other than the above	14,030	45,670
		Subtotal	14,030	50,920
Communal activities costs		Expenditures for JAE Group Forest and activities at each site that contribute to society	0	4,440
Communal activities costs		Subtotal	0	4,440
Costs for dealing with environmental destruction		Cost of environmental pollution remediation, compensation and other payments associated with environmental protection/td>	0	0
Costs for dealing with environmental destruction		Subtotal	0	0
Total			198,150	534,620

●Amount invested and R&D expenditures Unit: Thousand yen

Item	Description	Amount
Total investment for period under review	Investments for detoxifying countermeasures and other equipment installation, wastewater treatment facilities, and chemical substance-related regulations	198,150
Total R&D expenditures for period under review	Compliance with chemical substance regulations and other R&D man-hours, etc.	50,920

●Economic effect of environmental protection measures Unit: Thousand yen

Item	Description	Amount
Revenue for period under review	Revenue from sales of unneeded valuable materials	2,031,480

Scope:	JAE Group sites in Japan
Reference guidelines, etc.	2005 edition of Environmental Accounting Guidelines issued by Japan's Ministry of the Environment
Target period:	April 1, 2016 to March 31, 2017
Data criteria:	All sums are rounded off to the nearest 1,000 yen. All costs (excluding R&D) that are prorated as environmental activities out of all labor expenditures at environment-dedicated divisions and labor expenditures at other divisions are aggregated into management activities costs. Labor costs that may also be applicable to the following costs are also included. Pollution control costs Recycling costs Communal activities costs R&D costs are posted as total amounts without prorating the portion related to environmental activities..

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