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• About DOWA
• Greetings
• CSR of DOWA(DOWA Corporate Social Responsibility)
  • 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

Environmental report

Environmental Performance - OUTPUT

Prevention of Air Pollution

Emission of exhaust gas was 8.323 billion m3 in 2007, a decrease of about 6% compared to last year. Specific emission unit per sale decreased about 10% compared to last year.

On the environmental load side, emission of sulfur oxides and ash dust significantly decreased compared to last year, through our efforts to use alternative fuels or utilization of waste heat.

Our Efforts towards Prevention of Air Pollution

・Reduction of usage of heavy fuel oil boilers through effective use of heat generated from burnt wastes

・Improvement of process effectiveness

Prevention of Water Pollution

As for water quality, we strive to reduce waste water discharge by promoting recycling of water resource and process improvement. Through those efforts, quantity of waste water discharge in 2007 decreased by about 1% compared to last year.

Our Efforts towards Prevention of Water Pollution

・Reduction of waste water discharge through process review

・Reduction of waste water discharge through water recycling

・Recycling of waste water discharge through high level processing

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