About Panasonic

Environment

Panasonic is a company that takes its responsibilities as a European and Global Citizen very seriously and foremost amongst these is a duty to protect the environment.

Introduction

Panasonic actively promotes diverse environmental initiatives and harmonious co-existence with the global environment in all its business practices. In particular Panasonic emphasizes developing eco-friendly products, reducing the environmental impact from manufacturing and establishing recycling systems. Panasonic has taken positive steps in Europe and elsewhere to build and equip factories which will have a minimal effect upon the environment. Initiatives include stringent filtration measures for waste water which go far beyond regulatory standards, strict control of exhaust gases and emissions, and careful operational controls to keep energy consumption to a minimum.

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Environmentally Friendly Factories

Panasonic has taken positive steps in Europe and elsewhere to build and equip factories which will have a minimal effect upon the environment. Initiatives include stringent filtration measures for waste water which go far beyond regulatory standards, strict control of exhaust gases andemissions, and careful operational controls to keep energy consumption to a minimum.

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Green Products

Due to Panasonic's wide range of products from household electric appliances to parts, devices, and industrial machinery, we exert influences on the environment in numerous ways. Since we started the development of our Green Products Plan in 1997, we have worked to minimize the input of energy and resources and the output of waste and emissions throughout the products' life cycles. Panasonic is committed to reducing the impact of all its operations on the environment. For example, the GSM mobile phone plant (MCUK) was the first MEI company to receive the ISO14001 environmental accreditation, due to their PCB recycling initiatives, reduction of chemicals for manu-facturing and usage of recycled paper pulp for packaging. Our VCR's incorporate printed circuit boards that are manufactured using lead-free soldering. The materials used in the body of our T[tau] TV and some sections of it's PCBs and wiring are free of halogen compounds, which are environmentally dangerous.

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Elimination, Reduction, Utilization

For many years we have pursued convenience, comfort and energy conservation, as the basic qualities we seek in products. In line with our basic environmental concepts of "elimination, reduction and utilization", we have developed Green Products and added the environmental values of "energy-saving", "clean (reduced use of regulated chemical substances)" and "3Rs (reduce, reuse, and recycle).'