Environmental Protection

Policies

Environmental protection is among the most important of corporate sustainability activities. The DIC Group’s efforts focus on a number of areas, including preventing environmental pollution, managing industrial waste (responding to a circular economy), managing water resources and biodiversity. As a manufacturer of fine chemicals with operations around the world, the Group promotes environmental protection with a global perspective.

Groupwide Environmental Performance

The DIC Group quantifies the environmental inputs (consumption of energy and other resources) and outputs (emissions into the environment) of its operating activities, and uses its findings to implement far-reaching and efficient strategies for reducing its environmental footprint. This chart shows environmental impact in fiscal year 2024 for two key input items (total energy consumption and total wastewater consumption) and three key output items (emissions into the air, emissions into water and emissions into soil) in three categories: CO₂ emissions, total wastewater discharged and industrial waste disposed of as landfill, emissions of 551 substances targeted under Japan’s pollutant release and transfer register (PRTR) into the air, water and soil (included in data for Japan), emissions of NOx and SOx), and chemical oxygen demand (COD) in wastewater.)

• PRTR: A PRTR is a scheme for assessing, aggregating and disseminating data on the source of hazardous chemicals, amounts released into the environment and amounts transferred off-site from industrial establishments via waste products.
  DIC monitors 462 class 1 chemical substances designated by Japan’s PRTR and 89 PRTR-designated substances (other than class 1) and one substance group (chain hydrocarbons with up to 4–8 carbon atoms) targeted for study by the JCIA.