We are striving to spread information about the environment out in the world, by raising awareness and getting the word out about environmental issues.
Promoting Litter Control for Empty Containers
- Empty container collection box
We are carrying out litter control activities for empty containers in order to beautify the environment and promote effective use of resources. We place one empty container collection box at every vending machine. We are also making efforts to raise awareness about recycling by affixing a Beautification Mark on vending machines as a way to prevent littering.
The Suntory Group is also one of six beverage industry organizations participating in the Beverage
Industry Environment Beautification Association.
Disclosure Information and Communication
The Suntory Group values dialogue on the environment and discussions with all of its stakeholders. The opinions and requests we receive are linked to improvements in our activities. We also actively communicate information about the environment through such means as publishing CSR Reports and via our website.
Environmental Education for Coming Generations
To protect our rich natural environment and live in harmony with nature, there are many issues that will need to be solved, including global warming and the depletion of resources. It is the mission of those of us who are alive today to actively educate the children representing the next generation about the environment in order to build a sustainable future.
Suntory Water Education
The Suntory Group's independently developed program of Water Education takes a hands-on approach to learning so that our rich natural environment and the water resources borne of it may be handed down to future generations. The goal is to raise children who will realize the importance of water and instill in them the ability to think and act for themselves to protect water by giving them information about it. The 2 main programs we are pursuing in this area are the Outdoor School of Forest and Water and the Study Support Program.
Outdoor School of Forest and Water
This hands-on nature course geared to elementary school students from grades 3 through 6 and their parents is held in the home regions of Suntory Natural Mineral Water. Participants experience for themselves the importance of water and of the forests that produce it amid the great outdoors at Hakushu (Yamanashi prefecture), Okudaisen (Tottori prefecture), and Aso (Kumamoto prefecture). Around 11,000 students and their parents had taken part in the program by 2010.
Study Support Program
We travel to elementary schools to tell students in grades 4 through 6 about the importance of water. We have conducted programs around the Tokyo and Kyoto-Osaka-Kobe areas, as well as in Yamanashi, Tottori, and Kumamoto prefectures where we have Natural Mineral Water plants. Through experiments and games, students have fun thinking about the relationship between the water cycle and their lives as well as the role of the forests that create water. Programs had been carried out at 408 schools for more than 30,000 children by 2010.
Greening Systems: Suntory Midorie Ltd.
- Eco Products convention booth
Suntory Midorie Ltd. won the selection committee president's special prize (incentive prize) in the eco-products division of the 7th Eco Products Awards. The Awards are given to products and services that have excelled in giving consideration to lowering their environmental impact. The company also exhibited at Eco Products 2010, Japan's largest environmentally themed convention and the setting of the awards ceremony. It supplied information to the public at large about its technologies for greening the walls and rooftops of buildings without the use of soil.
P Love Green Declaration: Pronto Corp.
- Products used in the P Love Green Campaign
In April 2010, Pronto Corp. issued its P Love Green Declaration, announcing plans to conduct exciting programs that would be respectful of people and nature. The first program was its P Love Green Campaign. Pronto donated around 7.1 million yen derived from some of the sales of its products, made using domestically produced materials, to Tokyo's Umi-no-mori (Sea Forest)* Project.
- *Umi-no-mori: A project that calls for planting saplings on reclaimed land on the inside of the central breakwater in Tokyo Bay created using garbage and construction waste soil. The goal is to turn the land into a beautiful forest.
- • Outdoor School of Forest and Water, convened 40 times, 1,340 participants
- • Study Support Program conducted at 106 schools for approximately 8,200 children
- • Outdoor School of Forest and Water, plan to convene 33 times with 1,200 attendees expected
- • Study Support Program, plan to conduct sessions at 100 schools for 7,000 children
