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1. Energy saving and resources saving
2. Reducing and recycling of waste
3. Developing of environment-friendly products and services
4. Purchasing of environment-friendly materials, items, and commodities
3. Observe the requirements of relevant environmental legislations, regulations, and agreements, etc.
4. Carry out environmental audits and work to maintain and improve environmental management
system.
5. Work so that all employees will understand the environmental policy through environmental
education, etc. and will work to realize the environmental policy by having all employees take part.
6. Disclose the environmental policy, the situation of environmental conservation activities, and
environmental accounting to interested parties and the public.
ISO 14001
ISO 14001 is an environmental standard set by International Standardization Organization, which
can be obtain by any organization. An organization with ISO 14001 recognitions can be viewed as an
organization that runs sustainable Environment Management System.
At the beginning, Mizuno Yoro Factory obtained ISO 14401 in 1998. In February 2002, Mizuno acquired
the certification for its all operations in Japan. Also, in May 2004 it acquired certification for Shanghai
Mizuno, its largest overseas production facility. Even after acquiring certification, in pursuit of realization
of its Environmental Policy, Mizuno is working hard to maintain and improve the management system.
Mizuno maintain the system to meet legal and other requirements, review environmental targets and
goals, and strengthen internal audits.
Zero Emission
Zero Emission is one of the ideal states of society. The concept of the zero emission is to categorize
material by separation of waste then turn the waste to resources.
Any factory can achieve the zero emission by categorizing all the material that is out-put from the factory
to products and others then make others into resources by separation of industrial waste.
In March 2003, Mizuno attained Zero Emission at all its domestic factories. Each month, we track and
manage emissions, emission amounts, incineration amounts and landfill amounts for each plant. At
Mizuno, we define Zero Emission as recycling of over 98% by weight of industrial waste generated in the
production process. In fiscal 2006, our recycling rate was 99.1%.
Green delivery
For deliveries of products to our company stores and our retailers, we have introduced fold-down
containers, and we are aiming to reduce time taken on picking through boxing, and reduce the number of
boxes used.
Promotion of Modal-Shift
From January 2005, we have shifted transport between our Tokyo and Osaka distribution centers from
truck transport to train, and we are promoting the modal shift.
Education
Mizuno Video Communications (MVC), which is internal weekly video news, has been distributed every
Tuesday to all members of the company over 20 offices and factories. In MVC, articles of “Crew 21”,
environmental program, stress the importance of conservation of environment and explain the meaning of
Crew 21 and what they have to do concretely.
Development of Environmentally friendly products
Mizuno is aiming to develop products friendly to the environment under the following six concepts:
1. Development of products using cyclic materials
2. Development of products using semi-cyclic materials
3. Development of product using recycled materials
4. Development of products manufactured using ecologically friendly processes
5. Development of products that conserve the environment
6. Development of products that promote energy savings.
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