Initiatives to Reduce Waste

Toray Group is making effective use of resources as it works toward the realization of a sustainable, recycling-based world. To identify opportunities to improve waste reduction performance, the Group aggregates and analyzes environmental data, including waste volumes, and conducts internal audits to confirm the appropriateness of disposal methods.
Under its CSR Roadmap 2025, which covers fiscal 2023-2025, the Group has set the waste recycling rate¹ as a KPI, drawing on the gathered data as a reference. In particular, intensive efforts are being made to reduce the number of group companies and plants with low recycling rates and to follow up on progress being made.
At the same time, each Toray Industries plant is working to reduce and prevent the generation of waste as part of its environmental management efforts under ISO 14001. To achieve these goals, a wide range of initiatives are being pursued, including separation and volume reduction of waste, converting waste into valuable resources, and educating employees.

1. 1 Waste recycling rate = (recycled resources + resources with monetary worth) / (total waste + resources with monetary worth)

The Toray Group recycling rate in fiscal 2024 was 87.3%, up by 0.3 percentage points year on year, thanks to efforts to promote stable operation of sludge drying equipment at relevant group companies, as well as progress in recycling and converting waste into valuable resources at each site. As a result, the Group achieved its CSR Roadmap 2025 target of 87% or higher.
Going forward, Toray will continue efforts to achieve the waste recycling rate KPI set in a CSR roadmap 2025. It has designated companies with low recycling rates as target companies and is promoting waste reduction and reuse (including conversion to valuable resources), as it strives for further reductions.