Toward the goal of achieving harmony with the global environment, the Mitsui Chemicals Group engages in a variety of environment communication activities.
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Environmental Conservation
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 23,510 people participated in the Caravan campaign, collecting 176,910 kg of waste since fiscal 2019.
Activities at Kugenuma Beach, Kanagawa Prefecture (Tokyo metropolitan area)
Activities at Pasir Ris Park by six affiliated companies (Singapore)
Activities at Bruce Park Woods Road Picnic Area (Mitsui Chemicals America)
Activities (Mitsui Chemicals Europe)
Satoyama Conservation Activities
The Mitsui Chemicals Group, in collaboration with the Nature Conservation Society of Japan, an organization supported through our One-Coin Club, conducted two Satoyama conservation events at "Doyatsu no Sato" located in Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture, where our group has multiple sites. This location is recognized by the Ministry of the Environment as a Nationally Certified Sustainably Managed Natural Sites. These events took place in November 2024 and March 2025. On the day of the event, employees from a wide range of age groups, including children as young as two years old, and their families participated in satoyama conservation activities such as felling unnecessary bamboo, threshing and chain weeding in rice fields, and observing local wildlife.
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
A signing ceremony for the Agreement on Forest Preservation and Management
Implementation of an Employee Participatory Recycling Promotion Program at MCPU-M
At Mitsui Chemicals Polyurethanes Malaysia Sdn Bhd (MCPU-M), a unique initiative was launched targeting all factory employees to raise awareness about recycling and sustainability. Over the course of approximately three months, four programs were developed to encourage the creation and practical application of innovative recycling ideas, and employees were actively encouraged to participate.
As a result of these efforts, employees’ motivation and awareness regarding recycling activities have increased. Some employees have expressed the view that sustainability should be further integrated into daily operations and reinforced as a core corporate value. In response, ongoing activities are being considered to support this direction.
Programs Implemented from June to August 2024
- Program 1: Competition for in-house recycling volume
- Program 2: Examination of improvement measures from the perspective of the 3Rs (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle)
- Program 3: Promotion of recycling activities using unique rewards (eggs)
- Program 4: Conducting recycling knowledge quizzes to increase engagement in ongoing activities
Recycling volume competition
MCPU-M employees participating in the program