(C)2008 DOWA Holdings Co., Ltd.

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• DOWA Group CSR
  • DOWA CSR
  • Greeting
  • What is Social Responsibility of DOWA?
  • Feature I Contribution to Earth’s environment
  • Aiming for No. 1 in Asia
  • Measures to Fight against Global Warming from Wastes
  • Feature II Fostering Rich Forests and Living Creatures
  • Fostering Rich Forests
  • Purify Water and Fostering Living Creatures.
  • Our Efforts towards Conservation of Biodiversity in Mine Development
  • What’s DOWA?
  • We Support the Infrastructures of the Resource Recycling Society.
  • DOWA Metals & Mining
  • DOWA Eco-System
  • DOWA Electronics Materials
  • DOWA Metaltech
  • DOWA Thermotech
  • As an Public Institution
  • CSR Guideline
  • Basic Environmental Policy
  • Management System
  • Environmental & Social Goals and their Present Statuses
• Social Performance
  • Relationship with Society
  • Relationship with Customers
  • Relationship with Employees
• Environmental Performance
  • Environmentally Conscious Business Management
  • Entire Overview of Business Activities and Environmental Load
  • INPUT
  • OUTPUT
  • Contribution to Global Warming Measures through Destruction of Chlorofluorocarbon
• Economic and Business Management Performance
  • Economic Report
  • Environmental Accounting
  • External Economic Benefit Evaluation EEBE(R)
• Business Overview
  • Corporate History and Environmental Commitment
  • Basic Requirements and Target Organization
  • Questionnaire Resulte

Environmental Accounting

We have started the environmental accounting in order to clearly show our efforts and performance towards environmental conservation in a quantitative way. We calculated the cost of our efforts towards environmental costs and the benefits gained through our environmental profits.

We limit the scope of environmental profits only to those benefits that can be confirmed with objective evidence to ensure transparency and conservativeness and only include profits gained through sale of valuable materials recovered from wastes in environmental profits such as recycled raw materials.

Environmental Costs

The environmental costs in 2008 are 6,091 million yen, a slight increase from the previous year.

Majority of the environmental costs are those for pollution prevention, recycling and management of DOWA’s own wastes (resource-recycling costs), accounting for about 80% of all the costs.

While the costs within a workplace area and for social activities increased, the costs related to the upper stream and the lower stream, management and control, R&D and repairing the environmental damage.

(Unit: Million yen)

Item	Sub Item	Fiscal year 2004	Fiscal year 2005	Fiscal year 2006	Fiscal year 2007	Fiscal year 2008
1 Cost within a workplace area]	1. Cost related to pollution prevention	1,962	2,670	2,707	2,810	3,399
	2. Cost related to the global environment conservation	101	104	147	181	227
	3. Cost related to resource-recycling	999	1,049	1,042	1,473	1,558
2 Cost related to the upper stream and lower stream		59	700	48	204	24
3 Cost related to management activities		404	659	427	606	563
4 Cost related to R&D		489	412	321	404	234
5 Cost related to social activities		7	148	11	9	16
6. Cost related to repairing the environmental damage		74	112	73	192	72
Grand total		4,095	5,854	4,776	5,878	6,091

Environmental Profits

We gained 212 million yen for the sale of recycled raw materials, including metals, scrap and recycled drums, and recycled products, a decrease from the previous year to the amount similar to that of the year before last.

This was a result of significant drop of the recycled raw material price this year, compared to the soaring price of last year.

Data of our overseas operations are added this year, but it is very small compared to the data of operations in Japan.

	Fiscal year 2004	Fiscal year 2005	Fiscal year 2006	Fiscal year 2007	Fiscal year 2008
Quantity (1000 t)	12.7	20.7	20.4	23.3	23.1
Amount (Million yen)	52	199	178	596	212

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