Waste and resource circulation
The OKI Group works actively on reducing waste and recycling. Our waste reduction efforts focus on optimizing purchase quantities, and involve effective use of production management systems and enforcing operation rules. Improving yields at productions sites is a perennial goal, and we are always keen to eliminate waste when using input resources. Unneeded materials generated from production activities are sold as valuables or outsourced for processing by recyclers that can turn them into new resources.
Achievements in Fiscal 2023
Promotion of Material Recycling
OKI Group's goal is to maintain the overall Material recycling rate (*1)at the 2014 to 2018 level(84%).Our performance in fiscal 2023 was 86%.
*1：Material recycling rate
(Amount of value sold + Amount recycled by consignees) / (Amount of value sold + Amount of entrusted disposal)
Total waste generated
Change in total waste generation across the OKI Group
Total waste generation and final disposal volume
Trends in total waste generation and final disposal volume for the OKI Group
Initiatives for recycling plastic resources
OKI Group aims to maintain the recycling rate for waste plastics, just as it does for all waste materials. The recycling rate for waste plastics in fiscal 2023 was 81%.
Material recycling rate of waste plastics
Trends in the amount of waste plastic entrusted for disposal and recycling rate
Activities for the reduction of plastic waste and recycling
Resource waste rate
We analyze the resource waste rate to check the efficient use of resources. We are monitoring the situation with the base rate of 19% in 2013.
Hazardous waste
OKI Group will begin compiling data on hazardous waste from fiscal 2023.
Recycling of Used Products
OKI and OKI Cross Tech actively utilize wide area certification system for industrial waste, which was granted by the Ministry of the Environment in June 2006, to promote the recycling of used products. In fiscal 2023, the recycling amount was 5,520 tons, and the recycling rate was 99.7%.
