Amid increasing global demand for resources, there is a growing need to transition to a circular economy to achieve resource regeneration and sustainable economic growth.
We aim to minimize waste at every stage of our operations and make effective use of resources.
The CMP Group is actively engaged in waste management and resource recycling at its production sites and laboratories. We are also promoting the efficient and circular use of resources through collaboration with stakeholders.

The Sustainability Committee’s Resource Utilization and Pollution Prevention Subcommittee works with domestic production sites to advance resource utilization and the reduction of waste and other environmental impacts. Factories operated by overseas Group companies are proactively managed in compliance with the laws and regulations of each country. The Subcommittee receives reports on waste emissions from Group companies in Japan at least four times a year and from overseas Group companies once a year.

Taking into consideration our past performance and future prospects, we have raised our recycling rate targets for fiscal 2025 and beyond as shown in the table below.

In fiscal 2024, total waste and other materials generated at all CMP Group production sites amounted to 18,000 tons, an increase of 2,000 tons from the previous fiscal year. The waste intensity (per unit of production volume) decreased by 24% compared to fiscal 2022.

The Group has promoted in-house recycling, such as reusing washing solvents through distillation at the Shiga Factory, while also advancing recycling at external contractors.
The recycling rate at all CMP Group production sites in fiscal 2024 remained unchanged from fiscal 2022, at 91%.

Of the total waste generated by Group companies in Japan, 0 tons were hazardous waste.

The amount of waste plastics generated by each Group company in Japan was less than 250 tons. The amount of waste plastics generated by all Group companies in Japan amounted to 100 tons, down from 182 tons in the previous year.

Outsourcing waste disposal to contractors carries the risk of improper handling, such as illegal dumping. To mitigate this risk, we regularly visit waste disposal contractors to ensure they are properly processing the waste.
In 2024, we visited seven domestic waste disposal contractors and found no instances of non-compliance during our review of their waste processing procedures.

In addition to advancing the circular economy by reusing product containers through engagement with customers, we are promoting both the reduction of procured resources and the reduction of associated CO2 emissions (Scope 3, Category 1 and Category 5 under the GHG Protocol). We will continue our customer engagement activities and promote contributions to low-carbon initiatives throughout the supply chain.

In collaboration with major customers, we collect and reuse drums used for antifouling agents for fishing nets.
During fiscal 2024, we reused 3,913 drums.
This initiative not only helped to reduce our drum purchase volume and the amount of drums disposed of by our customers, but also contributed to cutting back CO2 emissions associated with the purchase and disposal of the drums.
Through this initiative, we were able to reduce CO2 emissions by 126 tons. The decrease in the number of reused drums from the previous fiscal year was attributable to a change in the sales format—from drums to an intermediate bulk container (IBC) system—for deliveries to a business partner that had participated in this initiative until the previous year.

To reduce the number of cans disposed of by users, we started sales in 1995 of the IBC system, a paint delivery system equipped with reusable intermediate bulk containers (IBCs) and automatic paint mixing and weighing equipment. This system has been realized in cooperation with users who construct buildings to install equipment, including automatic paint mixing devices. One IBC tank can reduce the number of waste cans by 70 to 100.
In fiscal 2024 we sold 6,500 tons of IBC tanks, reducing waste cans by the equivalent of 650,000 oil cans. As a result, we have contributed not only to the reduction of cans disposed of on the user’s end and a decrease in the number of cans purchased by both users and our Company, but also to the reduction of CO2 emissions associated with the purchase and disposal of these cans. In 2024, we reduced CO2 emissions by about 1,600 tons through IBC shipments.