Environmental Accounting

Environmental Accounting

  Investment Expenses
(Unit : Thousand yen)
Business area costs
(Waste volume reduction, reduction and recycling expenses)
9,373
Upstream and downstream costs
(Expenses for reducing environmental impact, including packaging and containers)
140
Administration costs
(Expenses related to environmental management, the dissemination of environmental information, etc.)
261,221
R&D costs
(Projects related to coral reef preservation and tropical rainforest regeneration, etc.)
86,967
Social activity costs
(Foundations, funds, university lecture endowment, etc.)
337,744
Environmental remediation costs
Total 695,444

Environmental Preservation Benefits / Economic Benefits

  Environmental Preservation Benefits Economic Benefits
Waste production ▲15t ¥765,000
Paper consumption ▲2,812 thousand sheets ▲¥5,198,000
Electricity Consumption ▲33 thousand kWh ▲¥18,598,000

* Environmental preservation benefits and economic benefits are calculated by subtracting actual results in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2009 from actual results in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2008.

[Significant Matters as Basis for Environmental Accounting]
Reporting period :
April 1, 2008 to March 31, 2009
Reference guidelines :
Ministry of the Environment's Environmental Accounting Guidelines 2005
Scope of aggregation:
Head offices (Mitsubishi Shoji Building, Shinagawa office, and some other offices in Tokyo). However, waste production relates only to the Mitsubishi Shoji Building and Shinagawa office.
Other :
Amounts less than ¥1,000 have been rounded