Other

• By FY 2001, the amount of energy per transportation unit will be reduced by 10% from the FY 1994 level.
• The amount of CO₂ gas per unit energy generated by thermoelectric power plants will be reduced by 10%.
• Reducing emissions of NOx from self-operated thermal power plants by 40 percent.
• By 2001, replacing 30 percent of the air conditioning equipment that used special chlorofluorocarbons in 1996 with equipment not using such special chlorofluorocarbons.

Measures

• Introduction of energy-saving vehicles, etc.
• Making stations and office buildings more energy efficient
• Further improvement of power generation efficiency, using clean energy sources and recycling
• Planting of 30,000 trees every year

• Making the recycling rate for waste generated at plants and works 70% by FY 2001
• Making the recycling rate for waste from stations and trains 30%
• Making the rate for reuse of paper generated by office work 90%
• Reducing the consumption of water resources by 5%

Measures

• Recycling and reduction of office waste
• Striving to restrict waste generation, such as by establishing a recycling route for train car glass and completing the fractional collection of metal waste
• Striving to further increase the recycling rate for disassembly of representative cars (103 system), which is currently 91%
• Reviewing how to deliver shopping bags at shops and the sale of box lunches with simplified packaging.