Actions to Prevent Global Warming and Reducing CO2

2017 AEON RYUKYU Reduction of CO2 Emissions

AEON RYUKYU proactively promotes environmental preservation campaign with our customers. Most familiar examples are “bring your own shopping bag” and “in-store recycling box”. Encouraging customers to carry own reusable shopping bags reduces the use of plastic bags, and this contributes to saving resources and CO2 emissions reduction. In-store recycling box aims to reduce household waste by collecting food trays and paper cartons, for the purpose of reusing resources.

Types of Recycling	Reduction
Carrying MyBag (plastic bag cutdown)	29,787,220 Bags
Planting activity (in total)	146,743kg
Aluminum Cans	24,463.58kg
Food Trays	13,219.84kg
Milk Cartons	28,7112.16kg
Plastic Bottles	52,800.41kg

 

In-store Recycling Collection

We promote recycling campaign by installing in-store recycling boxes for milk cartons, food trays, aluminum cans, plastic bottles (at some stores). Collected milk cartons are recycled and reused as toilet paper. Tray→tray / milk carton→toilet paper / cans→kitchen stove guard [Please use the recycling box too!]

Achievements

Year	Food Tray	Milk Carton	Aluminum Can
2013	15,354kg	33,578kg	25,773kg
2014	12,775kg	31,245kg	26,232kg
2015	9,668kg	24,064kg	19,616kg
2016	11,802.82kg	28,431.18kg	24,728.37kg
2017	13,219.84kg	28,712.16kg	24,463.58kg

Plastic Bottle Caps

Year	Amount	No. of People
2008	3,130kg	574
2009	27,450kg	5,032
2010	34,700kg	6,361
2011	31,870kg	5,843
2012	28,190kg	5,168
2013	24,400kg *1	4,474
2014	10,130kg *2	1,857
2015	19,296kg *3	3,538
2016	20,727kg	3,742
2017	11,672kg	2,107
Total	211,565kg	38,696

*Data up to 2013 is a sum for 1 year (Sept to Aug). *2014 is a half-year data (Sept to Feb). *Data from 2015 is a sum for 1 year (Mar to Feb) (Plastic bottle cap recycling campaign started from Nov 1st, 2018)

2017 AEON Group Total

Amount Collected

221.78 million

Amount Donated

2,918,277 Yen