Jit Co., Ltd.

Initiatives for SDGsSDGs ACTION

SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) were adopted at the United Nations Summit in September 2015
It is a common goal of the international community by 2030, which is stated in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
It shows 17 goals and 169 targets for a sustainable world.

The Jit Group regards the SDGs as an important goal of the international community.
By continuously implementing the following initiatives,
We will realize an international community and a sustainable society where no one is left behind.

As a group business, we are implementing the following goals.

[1] Let's get rid of poverty

1. Eliminate poverty

[Support for the poor and vulnerable people]

  • Fund-raising activities for collecting used ink cartridges (14,160 million yen → 23,210 million yen)
  • Activities to expand the circle of energy and smiles through the children's cafeteria (Held 10 times a year)

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[2] Zero hunger

2. Zero hunger

[Eliminate malnutrition and address the nutritional needs of all people]

  • Production and sales promotion of juice to eat (36,240 → 400,000)

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[3] Health and welfare for all

3. Health and welfare for all

[Reduction of infectious diseases due to expansion of medical healthcare business]

  • Production and sales promotion of medical healthcare products Production of medical masks (102 million → 2,390 million)

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[4] High quality education for everyone

4. High quality education for everyone

[Human resource development of employees through training]

  • Enhancement of employee training (440 people participate annually)

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[5] Achieve gender equality

5. Achieve gender equality

[Improvement of working environment for women to work comfortably]

  • Operation of smiling kids nursery school (24 people → 80 people)
  • Taking childcare leave (100%)
  • Postpartum return rate (100%)
  • Leave the office on time (100%)

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[6] Safe water and toilets around the world

6. Safe water and toilets all over the world

[Product development that does not use harmful substances, prevention of harmful substance pollution]

  • Hazardous chemical usage rate (0%)
  • Waste liquid / reduction of emissions (7800 liters → 106 liters)

[7] Energy for everyone and clean

7. Energy for everyone and clean

[Utilization / maintenance of solar power generation, strengthening of energy saving]

  • Utilization of renewable energy by maintaining solar panels (Maintaining annual power generation of 395,007kw)
  • Adoption of HV and EV vehicles (78% → 100%)
  • Adoption of LED lighting (282 → 674)
  • Power consumption (782,688kwh→590,503kwh)

[8] Both job satisfaction and economic growth

8. Rewarding work and economic growth

[Providing the motivation and purpose of life for the elderly and people with disabilities due to employment]

  • Employment of silver personnel (65 years old and over) (13 people → 24 people)
  • Expansion of employment opportunities for people with disabilities (98 people → 150 people)

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[9] Let's lay the foundation for industry and technological innovation

9. Build a foundation for industry and innovation

[Reduction of resource consumption by introducing environmentally friendly organic resources and technologies]

  • Number of biomass materials adopted by saving petroleum resources (1 case → 7 cases)
  • Waste reduction by waste plastic recycling plant (Introduced in 2023, started operation)
  • Number of factory automation lines installed 7 lines → 14 lines

[10] Eliminate human and national inequality

10. Eliminate inequalities in people and countries

[Raising the standard of living for people with low-income disabilities]

  • Employment support for independence at disability welfare service establishments
    (Working continuation support type B wage increase of 3% every year)

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[11] Creating a town where you can continue to live

11. Creating a town where you can continue to live

[Reducing damage to disaster-stricken areas and residents, employee education by growing plants]

  • Disaster agreement with each local government (Provided stockpile: 31 types / 4136 pieces → 40 types / 4766 pieces)
  • Number of cultivated plants managed by Jit Group (334 → 668)

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[12] Responsibility to make and to use

12. Responsibility to create Responsibility to use

[Promotion of recycling and reduction of waste by strengthening material reuse]

  • Waste reduction by recycling used ink cartridges (Recovered weight 78 tons → 156 million tons)
  • Reuse rate of shipping cardboard (50% → 100%)
  • Reuse of packing materials (100%)
  • Reuse of collection box (70% → 100%)
  • Reuse of copy paper (90% → 100%)

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[13] Take concrete measures against climate change

13. Take concrete measures against climate change

[Control of CO2 associated with ink cartridge recycling]

  • Controlling CO2 by recycling used ink cartridges (1,989t → 3,978t)

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[14] Protect the richness of the sea

14. Protect the richness of the sea

[Preventing marine pollution through controlling water pollution caused by plastic waste and contributing to the local community]

  • Number of used ink cartridges collected (2,600 million pieces → 5,200 million pieces)
  • Local river cleaning activities (9 people → 18 people)
  • Community cleanup activities (262 people → 388 people)
  • Cherry blossom mausoleum cleaning activity
  • Kofu station square cleaning activity (364 people → 664 people)

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[15] Let's protect the richness of the land

15. Protect the richness of the land

[Conservation of greenery, conservation of endangered species, conservation of genetic diversity of wild species]

  • Maintaining and improving the natural environment with the establishment of Jit Village (Start of construction in 2021 → Completed in 2030)
  • Number of participants in iris conservation activities under the Minami-Alps Green Partners Agreement (48 people per year → 125 people)

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[16] Peace and justice for all

16. Peace and justice for all

[Maintaining high morals by permeating the corporate philosophy]

  • Penetration of management philosophy through morning assembly and employee education
  • Employee Satisfaction Survey (94.1% → 95%)
  • Ratio of female managers and above(7% → 12%)

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[17] Achieve goals with partnership

17. Achieve your goals in partnership

[Clarify and share the goals of each group for 10 years]

  • Implementation of medium-term management plan formulation
  • Japan Management Quality Award / SDGs Initiative Certified Self-Assessor (14 people → 30 people)

Mr. Katsuichi Kaneko of Yamanashi Gakuin University and others featured in a paper about our efforts as a company that practices SDGs.

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