### Recommendations for Recycling and Environmental Management to Protect the Future - June 1998

### Recommendations for Recycling and Environmental Management to Protect the Future - June 1998

Instead of making a lot of things and throwing them away, it is important to recycle or repair them and keep using them! For example, **Tokyo** and **Osaka** produce 3 million tons of garbage every year. But if we reuse it, we can protect the future and the earth. It's amazing!

### A successful example of recycling!
**DOWA Group's Kosaka Smelter** recycles 20,000 tons of scrap metal every year to recover lead and copper. And at **Mitsubishi Materials' Naoshima Smelter**, 7,211 tons of e-waste will be processed by 2020. These efforts will help protect our future!

### Companies are also doing their part!
Companies have also obtained the ISO 14001 certification for environmental management, and are doing their part to be environmentally friendly. Companies in **Nagoya** and **Tokyo** have also obtained this certification, and in 2018, 1,200 companies in Japan had obtained it. They are all really amazing!

### They also manage their e-waste properly!
In 2020, Japan imported 72,112 tons of hazardous waste. So it is important that we all work together to collect and dispose of it properly!

### Do your best for the future!
Protecting the environment is not just a cost, but an important initiative to create a better future! I want young entrepreneurs to start their own eco-friendly businesses, too. We must all work together and do our best for the future!