Environmental Impact
Olympus monitors environmental burdens loads from entire product cycle processes relating to our business activities, including resource procurement, manufacturing, distribution, waste disposal and recycling, and we are striving to mitigate those burdens. Efforts to reduce CO2 emissions resulting from manufacturing and transportation operations in fiscal 2008 included the conversion of facilities to operate on gas and electricity instead of fuel oil, the reduction of HFC solvent use through the use of alternative products, and a modal shift from air to marine transportation. We also took steps to reduce total waste emissions, including the reduction of liquid waste, and the recovery of valuable resources from waste. Olympus will continue to intensify its efforts to reduce the absolute levels of environmental loads.
Environmental Impact of Business Activities
Note1: Discharge (total) = Discharge (waste) means landfill waste as well as recycled waste and does not include waste recycled into valuable resources. Values in this section contain those of waste discharged from logistics sites.
Note2: Waste emitted for landfill disposal as a prerequisite. Such waste undergoes volume reduction, such as incineration, and some of the residues are sent to landfills.
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