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Environment

Toward the goal of achieving harmony with the global environment, the Mitsui Chemicals Group engages in a variety of environment communication activities.

Mitsui Chemicals Group Clean-up Caravan

To tackle the problem with plastics, the Mitsui Chemicals Group aims to encourage the recycling of resources and promote a circular economy model by implementing our biomass strategy and recycling strategy and measures to address the problem of marine plastic waste. The problem with the plastic pollution in the ocean is a result of plastics that have escaped from the process for recycling resources and ended up in marine environments due to inappropriate waste management. Stopping waste from flowing into rivers and the sea is of utmost importance.
Mitsui Chemicals has undertaken clean-up activities in areas around our sites. In fiscal 2019, we launched a group-wide initiative, the Mitsui Chemicals Group Clean-up Caravan, calling on our affiliates in Japan and overseas to join in these activities. Going beyond the range of activities around our sites, the scope of the activities was broadened to allow for more employee initiatives, now including participation in clean-up activities organized by nonprofit and governmental bodies as well as clean-ups following community events. A total of 13,660 people have participated in the Caravan campaign, collecting 105,033 kg of waste since fiscal 2019.

Activities at Kugenuma Beach, Kanagawa Prefecture (Tokyo metropolitan area) Activities at Kugenuma Beach, Kanagawa Prefecture (Tokyo metropolitan area)
Activities at Pasir Ris Park by six affiliated companies (Singapore) Activities at Pasir Ris Park by six affiliated companies (Singapore)
Activities at Bruce Park Woods Road Picnic Area (Mitsui Chemicals America) Activities at Bruce Park Woods Road Picnic Area (Mitsui Chemicals America)
 Activities at Shanghai Beijing Forest Park (Mitsui Chemicals China) Activities at Shanghai Beijing Forest Park (Mitsui Chemicals China)
Activities (Mitsui Chemicals Europe) Activities (Mitsui Chemicals Europe)

Awarded for contribution to community cleanup activities

The Nagoya Branch of Mitsui Chemicals has been participating in cleanup activities organized by the local shopping district near our workplace for the past 10 years. In 2022, we called on all of our branches, including affiliates, to take part in the activity. As a result, the Group had the highest number of participants for the year and received a letter of appreciation for its first-place contribution to the activity.

The Letter of appreciation for the Clean-up Caravan activity (Nagoya Branch)
The Letter of appreciation for the Clean-up Caravan activity (Nagoya Branch)

The Letter of Appreciation for the Clean-up Caravan activity (Nagoya Branch)

World Heritage Support Project

The Mitsui Chemicals Group is working on the World Heritage Support Project in an attempt to protect and preserve world heritages, which are common assets of humanity.
In the first round (2017), we donated a NONROTTM* bench made of thinned cedar from Yakushima and handcrafted by Yakushima cedar processing artisans to the town of Yakushima, which is working to improve the island's attractiveness as a World Heritage site.
In the second round (in fiscal 2018), we donated NONROTTM benches and signboards that effectively used felled bishop wood, a non-native species, with the aim of bringing back Morus boninensis, an endemic species in the Ogasawara Islands that was designated as an endangered species in the red list of the Ministry of Environment due to the invasion of bishop wood.
In the third round (in fiscal 2019), we donated three NONROTTM tree decks for the Ponhoro Forest, the location of Shiretoko Nature School courses, which aim to ensure that Shiretoko’s magnificent natural environment can be passed on to the next generation.
For the fourth round (2022), as Amami Oshima and Tokunoshima version, we invited Mr. Yasuhiro Yamashita, an architect from Amami Oshima, as a lecturer and held a workshop for the children of Okazen Elementary School in Amagi Cho to learn about Amami architecture and the concepts necessary for architecture and manufacturing. The NONROTTM bench was created using cedar wood from Kagoshima Prefecture based on a few concepts, such as creating a bench that everyone can sit on happily for 100 years.

*NONROT™ is a highly safe timber coating that makes full use of wood’s natural breathability. It offers outstanding hydrophobic, UV resistance and protection against rot, fungus and insects.
NONROT™ has become the wood protective coating of choice for many architects, designers and their clients, as it allows the wood to breathe, enabling users of products treated with the coating to enjoy the pleasant scent of the timber itself.

Hidakagawa Honshu Chemical Industry Forest —Ongoing participation in the Corporate Forest project—

Honshu Chemical Industry Co., Ltd., a Mitsui Chemicals affiliate has been participating in the Corporate Forest project* aimed at preserving the forest environment, which has been promoted by Wakayama Prefecture as part of its environmental protection activities for ten years since 2010. Honshu Chemical Industry employees and their family planted approximately 1,500 broad-leaved trees in a forest (1.32 ha in area), and the employees remove undergrowth and perform complementary planting thereafter every year under the instructions of Kichu Forestry Association, which manages the forest on behalf of the company. In 2020, Honshu Chemical Industry signed an Agreement on Forest Preservation and Management with Wakayama Prefecture and Hidakagawa Town, with the aim of extending the effort for ten years. A signing ceremony for the new agreement was held in the Governor’s office at the Wakayama prefectural office, in which Mr. Nisaka (Governor of Wakayama Prefecture), Mr. Kurume (Hidakagawa Town Mayor), and Mr. Ohori (General manager of Wakayama Works at Honshu Chemical Industry) signed the agreement.

*Corporate Forest project:
An environmental contribution program in which Wakayama Prefecture, the Forest Association, and companies join forces to participate in global environmental protection together with locals using the rich natural environment in the prefecture.

Hidakagawa Honshu Chemical Industry Forest Hidakagawa Honshu Chemical Industry Forest
A signing ceremony for the Agreement on Forest Preservation and Management A signing ceremony for the Agreement on Forest Preservation and Management