Local communitiesInitiatives for local communities

Performance (FY2024)
  • 1. Briefings on the significance of Daiseki's environmental business during business talks with customers
  • 2. Plant tours inviting local residents
  • 3. Lectures at universities by our employees in cooperation with universities
  • 4. Internships for students and our employees to envision new environmental businesses together
  • 5. Promoting a circular economy project with Gamagori City
  • 6. Payment of hometown tax to Harima Town
  • 7. Support for restoration of river flooding disaster in Toyokawa City (Daiseki Eco. Solution)
  • 8. Exhibited at the COP28 Virtual Japan Pavillion
  • 9. Recognized as a Leading Company of Utsunomiya City (Daiseki MCR)
  • 10. ESG briefings for Institutional Investors
  • 11. Organizing the Future Project
  • 12. Clean-up and beautification activities around our business sites
Measures
  • 1. While engaging in activities to protect the global environment, we strive for proactive dialogue and interactions with customers, local residents, local government bodies, universities, and other stakeholders, and make social contributions that lead to regional revitalization.

Basic approach

Basic approach

Daiseki believes that protecting the global environment that forms the foundation for people's health and lives, while supporting manufacturing and other industries through recycling, is the major social responsibility we bear as a company that aims to become "the No. 1 recycling company in Asia." The understanding of local residents is essential for Daiseki in operating as an industrial waste treatment business. Accordingly, while engaging in activities to protect the global environment, we strive for proactive dialogue and interactions with our customers, local residents, local government bodies, universities, and other stakeholders, and work to make social contributions that lead to regional revitalization.

Initiatives

We view environmental communication with business partners and consumers as an important role of our company. In FY2024, we provided briefings during individual business talks, introduced our initiatives during plant tours for local residents, and also maintained contact with stakeholders through other channels. In cooperation with universities, we are undertaking activities including lectures at universities by our employees, hosting of practical training for students at out plants, and internships that allow students and employees to examine new environmental businesses together.

Environmental communication with customers

Daiseki offers customers environmental value through the intermediate treatment and recycling of industrial waste. During business talks and plant visits, we explain to customers the environmental value that we provide. Our high recycling rate and contributions to carbon neutrality are highly regarded by our customers.

Plant tours inviting local residents

Plant tours are held regularly inciting residents in surrounding area

Plant tours are held regularly inciting residents in surrounding area
(Daiseki Nagoya Works)

Daiseki conducts tours at its works for customers that generate industrial waste and residents in surrounding area as needed 1,545 people from 807 companies participated in these tours in FY2024. Tour attendees are asked to participate in a survey evaluating the works in terms of tidiness and organization, safety conditions, employee attitudes and other factors on a scale of 0–5 points, and respondents gave Daiseki an average 4.5 points in FY2024.

Promoting a circular economy project with Gamagori City

Daiseki booth at Circular City Gamagori event held by Gamagori City

Daiseki booth at Circular City Gamagori event held by Gamagori City

Daiseki signed a partnership agreement with Gamagori City in December 2022 promoting urban development through public-private partnerships in the city. Gamagori has expressed its desire to become a Circular City, a city that incorporates and actively promotes a circular economy in its urban development. The city is committed to forming a regional recycling symbiosis zone centered on its general waste treatment plant, and to initiating industry-academia-government collaboration to achieve this goal. In coordination with that initiative, Daiseki is planning a project to produce biomass fuel from general waste, then use it to generate electricity and supply power to the community. In this way, Daiseki will work to create a circular economy that coexists with the community.

Support for restoration of river flooding disaster in Toyokawa City (Daiseki Eco. Solution)

Disaster waste carried to collection points in Toyokawa City

Disaster waste carried to collection points in Toyokawa City

Localized torrential rain in the Tokai region in June 2023 caused rivers in Toyokawa City to overflow. Toyokawa requested support for restoration from Aisankyou (Aichi Industrial Resources Recycling Association), and Daiseki Eco. Solution, a member of the association, engaged in disaster waste treatment in the city together with about 40 other supporting companies. The company carried disaster waste to temporary storage and collection sites in the city, where it was sorted and disposed of by various industrial waste contractors. Daiseki Eco. Solution managed the sorting and removal of disaster waste at the temporary storage and collection sites, and handled the disposal of sludge (cleared soil) mixed with waste from collection sites, processing approximately 3,000 tons of sludge. It completed prompt and accurate disposal of disaster waste through these restoration support activities in cooperation with supporting companies.

Payment of hometown tax to Harima Town

Ceremony marking the completion of recharging facilities funded by Daiseki`s hometown tax payment (Daiseki Kansai Works)

Ceremony marking the completion of recharging facilities funded by Daiseki`s hometown tax payment
(Daiseki Kansai Works)

Daiseki paid the corporate version of the hometown tax to Harima-cho, Hyogo Prefecture, in October 2023, and Harima-cho used the funds to install EV charging facilities in the town. The facilities' opening ceremony was held in June 2024.

Received the 2024 Award for Distinguished Service in Environmental Preservation

Ceremony for the 2024 Award for Distinguished Service in Environmental Preservation

Ceremony for the 2024 Award for Distinguished Service in Environmental Preservation

In Aichi Prefecture, awards are given by the governor to organizations and individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the preservation of the environment in the prefecture. In June 2024, the vice president of Daiseki received an individual award for his many years of dedication and outstanding achievement in the promotion of environmental health projects.

Exhibited at the COP28 Virtual Japan Pavillion

COP28 Virtual Japan Pavillion explanatory slide

COP28 Virtual Japan Pavillion explanatory slide

Daiseki exhibited at the COP28 Virtual Japan Pavillion organized by the Ministry of the Environment in November 2023. We explained, among other things, that (1) Daiseki's recycling and industrial waste treatment business contributes to the creation of a circular economy, (2) renewable fuels, which are recycled products, provide an alternative to coal and fuel oil and so reduce the use of fossil fuels, and (3) recycling waste reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 97% compared to simple incineration.

Recognized as a Leading Company of Utsunomiya City (Daiseki MCR)

Leading Company of Utsunomiya City certification ceremony (Daiseki MCR)

Leading Company of Utsunomiya City certification ceremony
(Daiseki MCR)

In May 2024, Daiseki MCR was named as a Leading Company of Utsunomiya City for FY2024 for its contribution to the local economy. The largest lead refining company in the Kanto Koshinetsu area, Daiseki MCR produces lead ingots of 99.99% purity through the process of collecting, crushing, melting, refining, and molding waste lead batteries under the slogan "Clean & Recycle." Besides manufacturing with a rotary melting furnace fueled by city gas (first in Japan) and an induction heating lead smelting furnace using electricity (world first), the company has actively worked to become carbon neutral by introducing carbon-neutral LNG from Tokyo Gas. Daiseki MCR was recognized by Utsunomiya City for its significant contribution to the area's economy in terms of employment and tax payments.

Cooperation with The University of Tokyo OEGs

Proposal presentations by students from OEGs (at Daiseki Headquarters)

Proposal presentations by students from OEGs
(at Daiseki Headquarters)

In FY2022, Daiseki began supporting the University of Tokyo OEGs, a 100-year project launched by the university's Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences to protect the Earth, and FY2024 was the second year of the project's activities. In this project, students of the University of Tokyo have taken the lead in examining circular economy-type businesses that can contribute to the preservation of the global environment. In FY2024, the students came up with the idea of a circular economy-type business using microorganisms, which they presented to Daiseki's board of directors in February 2024. This activity is scheduled to continue through FY2025.

Workplace tours

Inviting employees' family members and conducting chemistry experiments (Daiseki Hokuriku Works)

Inviting employees' family members and conducting chemistry experiments
(Daiseki Hokuriku Works)

In June 2024, Daiseki Hokuriku Works held its first Future Project for employees' families, with several employees who have children as project members, in order to achieve the goal of being a company that employees can be proud of to their families. On the day of the event, the family members were given a tour of the workplaces, including an introduction to Daiseki, demonstration chemical experiments, a vehicle tour of the works, and a stamp rally. Our industrial waste recycling business is vital to the environment and society. By continuing this project and creating opportunities for family members to learn about our company, we will strive to realize a company that employees can be proud of to their families.