● Index of Mining Impact on Biodiversity (MiBiD™)
Toshiba Group has developed the MiBiD™ method to quantify the
impacts of materials that constitute its products on the biodiversity
of areas adjacent to mines when they are extracted. The Group has
created a database of minerals extracted from mines around the
world that records the relationships between the production scale
of the mines and the surrounding reserves and vegetation using
MiBiD/kg as the base unit. Until recently, this method covered
iron, copper, and aluminum, which are all used in large quantities
globally and indispensable to electric products, and now the MiBiD
database includes zinc and lead as well. Application of MiBiD™ may
enable us to procure materials while taking mining’s effects on
biodiversity into consideration. In order to identify the mines from
which materials used for products and at business and production
sites are procured, it is essential to obtain supply-chain information
(e.g., the names of mines from which materials are extracted and
the amounts of minerals used). Toshiba Group believes that in the
future, if an environment that enables us to obtain such information
becomes available, MiBiD™ will contribute to building our
supply chain while taking biodiversity into consideration.