The following standards and guidelines are used for determining the scope of the information collected on the Hitachi Group’s environmental load, for establishing base year data, and for collating results.
| Environment Information Item | Standards, Guidelines, Laws and Regulations, etc. |
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| Energy |
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| Waste products |
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| Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and chemical substances |
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The Hitachi Group’s environmental load evaluation system is used by around 300 facilities in and outside Japan to determine the environmental load created by business activities. Data on the direct environmental load and the social environmental load can be recorded for every factory and office, and is centrally managed. The environmental loads of all facilities are collated and used for Environmental Action Plan goal management and to gauge progress toward achieving the emission neutral goal. External complaints, awards received, and communication with stakeholders are kept and shared within the Group to promote effective environmental action.
In fiscal 2008, we added automatic connectivity between the system and JWNET*1 through EDI*2 for creating and sending electronic manifests for waste disposal. This allows data to be centralized in the environmental load evaluation system’s database, including contracts with industrial waste collection and transportation companies or waste disposal companies, and governmental authorizations.
Because e-manifests*3 are difficult to counterfeit, their merits include accurate monitoring of appropriate waste disposal and prompt responses to cases of inappropriate disposal, as well as enabling rational information management by waste emitters, industrial waste collection and transportation companies, and waste disposal companies.
Outline of Environmental Load Assessment System
![[Image]Outline of Environmental Load Assessment System](/environment/activities/images/vision/method_01.gif)
