Basic Policy
Ichikawa contributes to achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and to creating sustainable growth together with the local community by adopting the following as our basic policy.
- Positioned as critical management challenges, we strengthen our operations and reduce our environmental impact.
- We are committed to sustainable growth through local engagement, in this way helping to speed up reaching the paper industry’s goal of being “carbon zero.”
- Contributions to environmentally friendly papermaking
- Contributions to environmentally friendly papermaking
- Reassessing our relationships with local communities
Significantly contributing to reducing CO2 in the papermaking process
Progress on SDGs Initiatives
Environmental Initiatives
- Reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions: Early achievement of carbon neutrality
Using more waste heat through cogeneration
Developing solar power generation plants and equipment
- Promoting a circular economy: Achieving an over-80% recycling rate
Converting to solid fuel (RPF), recycling (paper, etc.), and retrieving valuable resources (metals)
Transitioning to recycled plastic products, such as packaging materials and polyethylene bags
- Reducing food loss: Implemented in both mill cafeterias
Social Contribution
- Signed a disaster prevention agreement with Kashiwa City
- Joined the Cleanup Hinuma Network in Ibaraki Prefecture
- Registered as a Chiba SDGs Partner in Chiba Prefecture
- Bread sales and donations through charitable organizations
- Introduced Table for Two (donating ¥20 per meal to developing countries)
Work Style and Diversity
- Seven women actively contributing as members of the SDGs Committee
- Sent two employees for external training as part of the development program for female managers
- Implemented unconscious bias and other training
Environment Social Governance(ESG)
For certain initiatives, detailed introductions are provided on each sustainability activity page.