Initiatives in Business Activities
Initiatives in Business Activities
Casio’s efforts to promote initiatives are guided by its targets to achieve zero emissions*1 of waste and reduce water intake by the Group. As part of its efforts to achieve zero emissions, Casio strives to reduce the amount of waste generated by its business activities and to decrease the landfill disposal rate, as well. The company is also taking initiatives for voluntary collection and recycling of used products.
Reducing Use of Office Paper
Casio has continued to promote a shift to paperless internal operations and electronic payments. The use of copy and office paper at Group sites has maintained a downward trend, particularly at office sites, and is down approximately 68 tons compared to the base year of fiscal 2019.
Reducing Waste and Decreasing Landfill Disposal Rate
As part of our efforts to support a recycling society, we have set targets for reducing the amount of waste, including valuable waste generated. The Casio Group has bases all over the world, and the situation regarding waste differs from site to site, including regulations regarding waste and the operation of waste disposal companies. Therefore, we are working to achieve our targets by refining and visualizing performance data, collecting information for each site, making the Group’s overall picture visible, and sharing effective information across sites.
Casio has set targets for each fiscal year and is verifying the status of achievement. For fiscal 2025, Casio set targets to reduce the amount of generation of waste (including valuables) by at least 5% compared to fiscal 2020.
Casio is also working to reduce landfill disposal with the aim of reducing environmental impact.
For fiscal 2025, Casio set a target to achieve a landfill disposal rate of 4% or less, and this target was achieved.
Reducing water intake
Water resources are essential in maintaining human activities. However, in recent years, water-related risks, including increasing demand due to population growth and decreasing supply due to climate change, have become a cause for concern, and Casio business activities could face similar risks.
The Casio Group uses a limited amount of water in production activities, to wash a few of the components in production activities. Use for applications such as air conditioning and domestic-type use account for the majority of the water used by the Casio Group. The domestic-type use of water is important in terms of maintaining hygienic at its sites.
When Casio conducted an evaluation of water stress levels*1 with a focus on access to water for hygiene at production sites with relatively high intake usage among the Group sites, one out of all the Group’s production sites was found to be under water stress. Despite the relatively low level of overall water stress, Casio has set a target of continually reducing water usage for the entire Group, and is working to reduce risk related to use of water resources.
Casio has set targets for each fiscal year and is verifying the status of achievement. For fiscal 2025, the company set a target of reducing water use by at least 5% compared to fiscal 2020.In fiscal 2025, the target for the year was achieved as a result of water saving activities at each site.
*1 The Baseline Water Stress indicator presented in WRI Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas 4.0. Casio assessed sites where the Baseline Water Stress is High or more as under water stress.
*Updated on January 7, 2026