Management of Wastes

While making efforts to properly dispose of wastes under the laws and regulations on wastes, Tohoku EPCo makes active efforts reduce wastes and promote effective utilization of wastes.

From now on, Tohoku EPCo Group as a whole will promote the reduction of wastes to be produced, and reuse and recycling of wastes in an effort to further reduce wastes and promote effective use of wastes.

Amount of Wastes Produced and Effectively Utilized (FY2006)

Track Record of Effective Use of Industrial Wastes, Etc.

The wastes produced by Tohoku EPCo include ash (cinders, soot and dust) produced by combustion of coal and oil, gypsum (sludge) as a byproduct from flue gas desulfurization equipment, etc. Tohoku EPCo properly manages and disposes of these wastes, and also promotes their effective use to reduce wastes.

In FY2006, the amount of wastes produced reached 1.055 million tons, and the amount of wastes effectively used stood at 997,000 tons. As a result, the effective use rate was 94.4%.

Amount of Wastes Produced and Effective Use Rate

Examples of Effective Use

Reinforcement of Management Based on Waste Management System

Tohoku EPCo endeavors to thoroughly dispose of and manage wastes in a proper manner by effectively using the waste management system that was created in FY2003 with an aim to reinforce and improve its waste management.

Proper Disposal of Wastes and Promotion of 3Rs in Tohoku EPCo Group

Under the Study Group on 3R Waste Measures, Tohoku EPCo Group shares information about wastes, thoroughly disposes of waste in a proper manner, and takes measures to promote 3Rs. Last fiscal year, we extended our efforts to recycle “waste oil” and “insulator scraps” horizontally to companies of the Group in a bid to expand the scope of recycling of wastes.

In June 2006, we developed the “Guideline of Tohoku EPCo Group on Proper Disposal of Wastes,” and we try to improve our corporate value through a series of efforts to fulfill CSR, while ensuring proper disposal of wastes.