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Environmental Activities

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[Image] Super Eco-products

Super Eco-products are those eco-products and services having especially high environmental efficiency -- an index reflecting reductions in greenhouse gas (i.e. CO2) emissions and consumption of resources and increases in product and service values.

'Super Eco-products' are designated products and services that meet one of the following three conditions:

  1. A global warming prevention or resource factor of 10 or more
  2. An industry leader
  3. Award-winning or highly regarded

Formula for Global Warming Prevention Factor

First, find the efficiency of global warming prevention of new product (product being evaluated).

[Image] Calculation of Efficiency of Global Warming Prevention

  • Products designed to save energy during operation
  • Products designed to require fewer manufacturing processes and less energy
  • Products designed to enable mass distribution (product downsizing)
  • Product parts and materials selected that emit less gas which leads to global warming over the entire product life cycle

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base product (reference product).

[Image] Calculation of Efficiency of Warming Global Prevention Factor

The greater the 'global warming prevention factor', the greater 'factor X' and the benefit towards realizing a 'new affluence.'

Formula for Resource Factor

First, find the resource efficiency of new product (product being evaluated).

[Image] Calculation of Resource efficiency

base product (reference product).

[Image] Calculation of Resource Factor

The greater the 'resource factor', the greater 'factor X' and the benefit towards realizing a 'new affluence.'