TOP > Greetings〜Toward Building Resource-Recycling Society〜

• About DOWA
• Greetings
• What is Social Responsibility of DOWA?
  • Making Kosaka Town World-known
  • CSR Philosophy of DOWA
  • CSR Guideline of the DOWA group
  • Basic Environmental Policy of the DOWA group
  • Environmental and Social Goals and their Present Status
  • The DOWA group’s Long Term Vision of Fighting Against Global Warming
  • Corporate Governance
  • Internal Control Activities
  • DOWA’s Measures to Fight Global Warming
  • CSR Topics-Aiming at Ensuring Biodiversity
  • CSR Topics-New Project for Fighting Global Warming
  • DOWA’s Career Support
  • DOWA’s Health and Safety

• Social report
  • Social report Hilight
  • Towards Improving Customer Satisfaction
  • Fair and Speedy Disclosure of Information
  • Aiming at Contributing to Our Community
  • Building an Organization to Capitalize on Human Resources
  • DOWA’s Way of Developing Human Resources
  • DOWA’s Work Life Balance

• Environment report
  • DOWA’s Environment-conscious Business Management
  • INPUT & OUTPUT
  • Water Resource/Energy
  • Usage of Raw Materials, Acceptance of Recycled Materials
  • Air Pollution/Water Pollution
  • Control of Chemical Substances (those targeted for PRTR)
  • Global Warming Measures
  • Wastes/Recycling
  • Environmental Accounting

• Economy Report
  • The Medium-term Business Plan for Business Restructuring III
  • External Economic Benefit Evaluation EEBE(R)

• Overview of DOWA group
  • Operating Companies
  • Questionnaire results
  • Environmental & Social Commitment
  • Basic Requirements,Target Organizations

• Editorial Line

Toward Building Resource-Recycling Society

We put up the specific goals of figures: 10% average reduction of CO2 generation from the quantity in 2006 during the period of 2008 to 2012 and 20% reduction during the Post Kyoto Protocol period from 2013 to 2018. Specific measures and policies aimed at achieving those goals will be included in the next medium-term business plan to be established during this year, and we will do our best to achieve steady reduction of CO2.

Yoshikawa

Not to mention corporate efforts, action of each individual person, that is, our individual employee is also important and necessary.

Kohno

I agree. This year based on our new environment policy, the DOWA group participated in “Team Minus 6%”, an initiative by the Ministry of the Environment to fight global warming. Each employee will take part in in-house activities to fight global warming. I firmly believe awareness of global warming by each employee will result in promoting reduction of CO2 emission generated through our business activities and contribute directly to achieving “Carbon Neutral”.

Deployment of Activities Contributing to Local Communities

Towards DOWA Loved by Local Communities

Yoshikawa

I think our business activities will continue to increase on a global basis, including resource-recycling and preventative measures of global warming. In deploying those business activities, we should not forget our local communities which have long supported the DOWA group.

This year, like last year, we implemented some activities together with our local communities in Kosaka, Okayama, where DOWA started its first business. In Kosaka we developed large scale afforestation activities on the former mining land of approximately 300,000 m2 with elementary and secondary school students and local people, under the title of “DOWA’s Forestation Program”. We are planning to plant about a million young trees over this land in five years. In Okayama, we formally started the “Kojima Lake Blossom Corridor Project” aimed at creating a landmark of cherry blossoms. Employees of the DOWA group together with local people will plant about 3,000 Kawazu cherry trees around Kojima Lake. The cherry trees we planted last year had already some blossoms this year and the site has become a new local spot.

Kohno

This year we started a new project in cooperation with Okayama City as part of our programs contributing to our local communities, BDF (Bio Diesel Fuel) business. This is a project to produce BDF using used cooking oil and use it for refuse collection trucks of Okayama City. We regard this business as a new menu to our recycling business and consider expanding the project to other areas in the future.

Yoshikawa

We want to promote these activities together with our local communities not only in Kosaka, Okayama. I think "to be loved by the Earth” is the origin of DOWA’s business activities and the basis of CSR.

Kohno

In “the first SCR year”, we strive together to be a “Global Company Loved by the Earth - DOWA”

Yoshikawa

I hope every stakeholder of DOWA will read this CSR Report, and send comments and opinions to us. Based on those comments and opinions we will carry on our social responsibility activities. I request your understanding of and continued support for us.

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