Nisshin Seifun Group

Local Environmental Conservation Activities

Basic approach

Recognizing that our business activities affect the entire planet and that protecting the global environment is essential for our survival and activity, we actively take the initiative to protect the environment under the Nisshin Seifun Group Environmental Basic Policy, including initiatives to reduce waste and CO2 emissions and to effectively use resources and energy.

We participate in local environmental conservation activities at Group business locations in Japan and overseas. For example, we participate in cleaning activities that not only beautify the local area, but also have benefits such as preventing plastics and other waste discarded outside from flowing into the sea.
Going forward, we will work to coexist with each region through environmental communication with the community and advance activities that contribute to local society.

Environmental beautification and conservation activities

Cleaning activity in the area around the Tsurumi Plant (Nisshin Flour Milling Inc., Nisshin Grain Silo Inc., Nisshin Safety Association)
Joint cleaning activity in the local industrial community area (Hanshin Silo Co., Ltd.)
The Route 18 Zero Trash Initiative (Nisshin Pharma Inc.)
Lake Biwa Day communal effort to clean the shore of Lake Biwa (Oriental Yeast Co., Ltd.)
Cleaning up the sidewalk around the plant (Oriental Yeast Co., Ltd)
Cleaning the area around a business location (Kitayama Labes Co., Ltd.)
Cleaning the area around each plant (NBC Meshtec Inc.)
Heal the Bay Project in Santa Monica (Miller Milling Company, LLC)
Participating in weeding and watering activities to conserve Topanga State Park, which contains many plant species that are unique to the California area (Miller Milling Company, LLC’s Los Angeles Mill)
Cleaning the area around the plant (Vietnam Nisshin Seifun Co., Ltd.)
Participating in a city-wide cleaning day in Chiyoda City (Nisshin Seifun Group Inc.)

Nisshin-STC Flour Milling Co., Ltd. (Thailand) held an environmental education event for elementary school and preschool children in the area around its plant. The children learnt about the importance of sorting waste using PET bottles as a recyclable resource. The company worked together with employees and people connected to the schools in preparation for the event, in order to communicate the significance of sorting waste to a wide range of other age groups as well. Children who participated in the event said they had fun learning and they are expected to further raise awareness regarding waste sorting as they talk to their families.

Environmental communication

In addition to releasing information annually through our website, we are also communicating about the Group’s environmental activities by responding to various surveys carried out by external parties.
We also work with external stakeholders on a wide range of environmental conservation activities through participation in governmental and private sector initiatives.

Awards

Environmental activities

Environmentally friendly packaging, optimal use of food resources, and time-saving food preparation

Environmentally friendly buildings

Voluntary participation in governmental and private sector environmental conservation activities

Activity Details
Japan Business Federation (Keidanren) Voluntary Action Plan The Japan Flour Millers Association, of which the Group’s main business company Nisshin Flour Milling is a member, and the Japan Frozen Food Association, of which the processed food business Nisshin Seifun Welna is a member, both participate in the Japan Business Federation’s Voluntary Action Plan on the Environment. Under this plan, which aims to reduce the environmental impact of the federation’s members, participants work toward targets for realizing a low-carbon society with the goal of achieving these by 2030.
Japan Frozen Food Association’s Voluntary Action Plan for the Environment The Japan Frozen Food Association, of which the processed food business Nisshin Seifun Welna is a member, has formulated a voluntary action plan that aims to reduce the environmental impact of the association’s members. Participants actively apply 3R (reduce, reuse, recycle) principles to product containers and packaging with the goal of reducing CO2 and CFC gas emissions by 2030.
Green Purchasing Network (GPN) The Green Purchasing Network promotes environmentally friendly purchasing and as a member, the Group works to disseminate information and spread awareness of green purchasing.
Kyutokenshi Container and Packaging Reduction Commitment The Group has made a commitment under the Container and Packaging Reduction Commitment initiative being promoted by the Kyutokenshi (nine prefectures and cities in the Greater Tokyo Area). Accordingly, we are working to reduce the volume of containers and packaging we use and to make them lighter.
Kanagawa Energy and Environment Classes We are participating in a program in which companies and other organizations hold experience-based lessons, such as science experiments, at elementary, junior high, and high schools in Kanagawa Prefecture in order to deepen understanding of topics such as environment and energy within the local community. Our contribution is to teach environmental classes, such as how a household can save energy when cooking with wheat flour.
Japan Climate Initiative (JCI) We are a member of the Japan Climate Initiative, a network of companies, local governments, NGOs, and other organizations that have agreed to “join the front line of the global push for decarbonization.”
Plastics Smart Forum This is a cooperative effort by a wide range of stakeholders, including individuals, local governments, NGOs, companies, and research institutes, to solve the problem of marine plastics by supporting activities proposed by the Ministry of the Environment.
Japan Clean Ocean Material Alliance (CLOMA) We participate in activities to introduce sustainable-use plastic products or plastic alternatives and to accelerate innovation generated by partnerships between companies.
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