Environmental Report

Environmental Accounting

Lintec uses environmental accounting to ascertain the costs and benefits of environmental protection, and continues to carry out environmental protection activities as effectively as possible. Environmental investments^★1 made in fiscal 2021 totaled 766 million yen, while environmental costs^★2 incurred for the same year totaled 4,205 million yen.
In fiscal 2021, large paper machine-related equipment was introduced for CO₂ reduction. Total costs increased by 426 million yen from fiscal 2020 due to an increase in the number of projects and researchers for the development of environmentally friendly products.

^★1Environmental investments: The amount of investments made during a year for the purpose of environmental conservation. Since the effect of the investments lasts for several years or longer, the invested amounts are recognized as costs over those years.
^★2Environmental costs: Costs or losses arising from consuming goods and services for the purpose of environmental conservation.

Calculation Basis

The scope of data collection covers Lintec Corporation and Tokyo Lintec Kako. Other affiliates are not included.
The data is for the period from April 1, 2021, to March 31, 2022.
The Environmental Accounting Guidelines (2005) from the Japanese Ministry of the Environment were used as a reference.

Fiscal 2021 environmental conservation costs

Lintec uses environmental accounting to ascertain the costs and benefits of environmental protection, and continues to carry out environmental protection activities as effectively as possible. Environmental investments^★1 made in fiscal 2021 totaled 766 million yen, while environmental costs^★2 incurred for the same year totaled 4,207 million yen. Total environmental investments, mainly used to introduce equipment related to papermaking, among others, increased by 87 million yen from the previous year. Total environmental costs increased by 428 million yen year on year. Environmental conservation costs related to R&D activities increased by 274 million yen, reflecting an increase in the number of projects to develop environmentally friendly products and an increase in the number of personnel engaged in these projects.

^★1Environmental investments: The amount of investments made during a year for the purpose of environmental conservation. Since the effect of the investments lasts for several years or longer, the invested amounts are recognized as costs over those years.
^★2Environmental costs: Costs or losses arising from consuming goods and services for the purpose of environmental conservation.

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Category		Target equipment	Investments	Details of main initiatives	Expenses
1.Business area cost	Pollution prevention cost
	a. Preventing air pollution	Exhaust treatment system	18	Management and maintenance of equipment to prevent air pollution	295
	b. Preventing water pollution	Effluent Water treatment system	14	Management and maintenance of equipment to prevent water pollution	134
	c. Preventing overall pollution	-	5	PCB and sludge disposal costs	34
	Global environmental conservation cost
	a. Preventing global warming	Exhaust treatment system	0	Management and maintenance of fuel conversion systems	63
	b. Energy conservation	Effluent Water treatment system	671	Management and maintenance of in-house power generation equipment	510
	Resource circulation cost
	a. Efficient utilization of resources	Waste paper treatment system	5	Management and maintenance of wastepaper processing equipment; use of wastepaper as raw material	322
	b. Treating, reducing, and recycling waste	Waste-derived fuels system	1	Management and maintenance of incinerator and boiler equipment; industrial waste processing	481
2.Upstream / downstream cost	Collecting, recycling, and reusing byproducts	-	-	By-product pickup	75
2.Upstream / downstream cost	Green procurement and purchasing	-	-	Purchase of environmentally friendly office supplies	7
3.Administration cost	Constructing and operating environmental management systems	-	52	Environmental conservation organizations	378
	Environmental information disclosure	-	-	Preparation of the CSR Report and Website; participation in the Eco-Products fair	27
	Monitoring and measuring environmental impact	-	-	Analysis and measurement of regulated substances	50
	Environmental education	-	-	Participation in seminars and workshops	0
	Environmental improvement measures	-	-	On-site beautification; garden tree pruning	25
4.R&D cost		-	-	R&D relating to environmental protection	1,719
5.Social activity cost		-	-	Biodiversity project activity reporting presentation	0
6.Environmental remediation cost		-	-	Payment of pollution load levy; compensation for fisheries	15
Total		-	766	-	4,207

Note: Investment in exhaust treatment system installation includes spare parts and miscellaneous work.

Fiscal 2021 environmental conservation effects

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Environmental conservation effect categories	Environmental performance indicators		Base period (FY2020)	FY2021	Environmental conservation effect (difference against base period)
1. Environmental conservation effects related to resources put into business activities	Purchased electricity usage (crude oil equivalent)	1,000 kl	34	38	4
	Fuel usage (crude oil equivalent)	1,000 kl	43	45	2
	Organic solvent usage	1,000 t	9.3	10.1	0.8
	Water usage	1,000 t	7,951	7,718	-233
2. Environmental conservation effects related to environmental impact and waste output from business activities	CO₂ emissions from manufacturing	1,000 t -CO₂	148	159	11
	Toluene emissions to air	1,000 t	0.399	0.434	0.035
	Waste discharge	1,000 t	29.0	30.8	1.8
	Waste incinerated	1,000 t	3.1	3.5	0.4
	Waste buried in final landfills	1,000 t	0.16	0.16	0
	Total effluent (Kumagaya and Mishima plants)	1,000 t	5,246	5,644	398
	SO_x emissions	t	9.4	6.1	-3.3
	NO_x emissions	t	28.4	113.3	84.9
3. Other environmental conservation effects	Fuel usage associated with transportation (crude oil equivalent)	kl	3,704	4,016	312
	CO₂ emissions associated with transportation	1,000 t -CO₂	9.8	10.67	0.87
	Amount of product transportation	10 Million ton-km	8.9	9.96	1.06

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