Initiatives to Reduce Waste

Toray Group is making effective use of resources as it works toward the realization of a sustainable, recycling-based world. Under its CSR Roadmap 2022, which covered fiscal 2020-2022, the Group worked to achieve a waste recycling rate¹ of 86% or higher every year through fiscal 2022. Since fiscal 2020, intensive efforts have been made to reduce the number of group companies and plants with low recycling rates and to follow up on progress being made.

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

Recycling Rate

The Toray Group recycling rate in fiscal 2022 was 86.8%, up by 0.9 percentage points year on year, thanks to efforts to promote recycling of such items as film waste at group companies. As a result, the Group achieved its target of 86% or higher.
In its CSR Roadmap 2025, which covers fiscal 2023-2025, the Group set a numerical target for a waste recycling rate of 87% or higher in the final year, fiscal 2025. In order to achieve this goal, the Group has designated group companies with low recycling rates as of the end of fiscal 2022 as companies requiring attention and is taking steps to further reduce the rates at these companies.