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| Honda also gives full consideration to environmental conservation at its offices and believes that it is most important to indirectly improve the environment by encouraging its factories, suppliers, and even its customers to contribute to environmental conservation by demonstrating good examples in its business activities conducted at its offices, including sales activities. |
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Honda is implementing measures to give full consideration to the environment at its offices. For example, our Head Office in the Aoyama Building started to implement measures to reduce the environmental impact of its activities at the end of 1998 and obtained ISO 14001 certification during 1999. Subsequently, our six regional offices also obtained this certification in 2001. At the Aoyama Building, three years from the start of activities to obtain ISO 14001 certification, employees now conduct activities to reduce their direct environmental impact as a part of their daily business activities. We will continue to conduct environmental improvement activities to make our offices green offices, or offices that give consideration to protecting the global environment in every aspect of their business activities. |
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Each Honda office is also promoting the reduction of waste and resource saving. For example, at the Aoyama Building, employees sort their waste into 14 types, installing boxes to collect each one.
Energy saving is also promoted as one of our important environmental conservation objectives. For example, incandescent lamps in the corridors of each floor are being replaced with fluorescent lamps, only some lamps are switched on, and the ventilating fans of the underground parking space are turned on only when automobiles actually enter. At the Aoyama Building, wastewater from restrooms, kitchens, and cooling towers are collected and used for flush toilets to promote the conservation of water resources.
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Based on the principle of green purchasing to promote the
preferable purchasing and popularization of environment-friendly products and
services, we are also purchasing environment-friendly products and services
for our offices. The following shows Honda’s basic ideas for green purchasing: |
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Purchase products and services by taking into account the
various types of environmental impacts on each stage of the products’ life
cycle. |
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Purchase products and services that are produced and
sold by businesses that have management policies concerning the environment
and that are actively engaged in environmental conservation. |
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Actively obtain environmental information concerning
products, manufacturers, and distributors, and use the information for making
purchasing decisions. |
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| At Honda, general office supplies have been replaced with environment-friendly alternatives, and now all items purchased under the purchasing system for general office supplies are environment-friendly products. |
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As a part of the measures to reduce the environmental impact
caused by corporate activities, Honda is introducing or replacing existing vehicles
for its own use with government-certified low-emission vehicles, including those
emitting extremely small amounts of harmful substances. |
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