Panasonic’s Environmental Assessment
I was surprised to discover today that Panasonic has pretty detailed environmental assessment information available on the web. It’s much more than I ever would have suspected they’d be interested in cataloguing. But it’s there…
Some basic information about CO2 emissions from Panasonic products.
On this page, notice the amount of detail:
The amount of resources input is calculated not from the amount of materials procured but from the raw mined materials based on the composition of each product component. Products imported from overseas manufacturing business units are included.
And I was surprised to see what steps they plan to take in the future:
Moreover, when Matsushita Logistics Co., Ltd., replaces trucks, it will replace them with highly fuel-efficient hybrid trucks. It is aiming to switchover its entire fleet of 353 trucks (as of the end of fiscal 2005) to environmentally conscious trucks, such as hybrids, by the end of fiscal 2007 (30% of the fleet in fiscal 2005).
It’s great that Panasonic is doing this, and I’m curious as to whether other companies have, hidden away in their corporate websites, similar information.