Ten Basic Environmental Rules

1. Prioritize environmental preservation

   We shall comply with all laws, regulations, and agreements in all of our business activities. Taking into consideration biodiversity, we shall place the highest priority on environmental preservation in the manufacture, handling, use, sale, transport, and waste disposal of products.

2. Prevent global warming

   We shall promote energy conservation and work to reduce our unit energy consumption and our carbon dioxide emissions.

3. Achieve zero emissions of environmental pollutants

   We shall strive continuously to reduce our emissions with the ultimate goal of achieving zero emissions of hazardous chemical substances and waste materials into the environment.

4. Use safer chemical substances

   We shall collect, maintain, and provide information on the health and environmental effects of the chemical substances we handle while striving to use safer chemical substances.

5. Promoting Recycling

   We shall develop recycling technologies for products, containers, and packaging and cooperate with society in promoting the recovery and reuse of such items.

6. Improve the level of environmental management

   We shall work to maintain and improve the level of our environmental management while working to upgrade our environmental management technology and skills, performing self auditing, and taking other measures.

7. Contribute to society through environmental improvement technologies and products

   We shall meet the challenge of developing new technologies and shall contribute to society through environmental improvement technologies as well as products that place a low burden on the environment.

8. Improve the environmental management of our overseas businesses

   In our overseas business activities, we shall place top priority on complying with local laws and regulations, and further, we shall manage those businesses in accordance with the management standards of Toray Group.

9. Improve employees' environmental awareness

   We shall strive to improve our employees' awareness of environmental issues through environmental education, social activities, internal communications activities, and other means.

10. Share environmental information with society

   We shall deepen mutual understanding of Toray Group environmental policies and practices by widely publicizing our environmental preservation efforts and their results in environmental reports and other publications directed at local communities, investors, and the media.

source: 'Toray' Innovation by Chemistry

credits to my brother, Karlo.. had he not done his assignment, i wouldn't have read this.. ;)