The figure below shows a conversion of environmental
impacts caused by industrial waste discharged by Toshiba
Group over the past three years into monetary values. The
amount of external diseconomies for FY2012 was computed
to be 14.8 billion yen. At the same time, the costs required
for conservation of biodiversity, forestation of production
sites, and other initiatives having environmentally positive
effects totaled 0.78 billion yen
Comparing these costs, we are considering a system for off-setting or reducing external diseconomies as well as looking
at the changes over the three-year period, which indicate
that the reduction rate shifts from 6.1% to 5.2%, and then to
5.3%. In the future, we will continue to further increase the
sophistication of our analysis.