Environment

In the 1970s, when awareness of the possible crisis-level impact of industrialization and population growth on the planet was rising, and the United Nations and other global forums were beginning to discuss environmental issues, we made a full-scale entry into the wastepaper recycling business based on the growing recognition that promoting the use of wastepaper as a recycled resource was essential to ensuring a stable supply of paper for the future. Since then, we have been committed to contributing to environmental conservation through our business activities, and to finding a way to link those efforts to the group’s mission of “carving a better future for society and the environment”—a mission we still uphold today.
With this in mind, in recent years we have been further promoting efforts to address climate change and other environmental issues within the group and aiming to contribute to achieving common global objectives, such as carbon neutrality. In 2022, we revised our Charter of Corporate Behavior and Code of Conduct for Executives and Employees, both of which have a strong connection to our Corporate Philosophy and sustainable management, and established the Sustainability Policy. We also revised our Environmental Policy and renamed it the Japan Pulp & Paper Group Environmental Policy. In addition, we restructured our sustainability promotion system.