In order to save resources and reduce waste, Mitsui Fudosan is promoting the implementation of the three Rs (reduce, reuse and recycle).

Mitsui Fudosan is working on “reduce” activities, including a decrease in the amount of office work-related and sales and marketing-related paper used, the introduction of a pay-per-use system at retail properties and controls on the use of disposable items in hotels.

Promotion of Pay-per-Use System and Waste Disposal Volume Measurement

In retail properties, the generation of waste is curbed through the introduction of a pay-per-use system in which tenants are charged based on the quantity of waste disposed. In addition, measuring instruments are set up within facilities to measure the waste disposed by tenants, which contributes to an understanding of the quantity of waste and enhancement of tenant awareness. As of the end of July 2008, 25 of the facilities that Mitsui Fudosan operates and manages have introduced the pay-per-use system.

Efforts to Reduce in Hotels

Dispensers

Mitsui Garden Hotels began to use dispensers for body soap, shampoo and rinse, which used to be individually wrapped, in twelve hotels with the goal of curbing the generation of hotel guest amenities that were disposed of before being used up. In fiscal 2007, eleven hotels put stickers on bathroom walls requesting guests to completely use toilet paper in guest rooms. Furthermore, ten hotels installed high-speed hand dryers in bathrooms in common-use areas and discontinued the use of paper towels.

Mitsui Fudosan is working on “reuse” activities.

Reuse of Buckets for Distribution of Flowers and Ornamental Plants

ELF buckets for distribution of flowers and ornamental plants

Daiichi Engei Co., Ltd. takes part in the ELF Bucket System of Japan Eco Line Flower System Association (JELFA), and reuses buckets for the distribution of flowers and ornamental plants. The ELF Bucket System is a system for the repeated use of buckets exclusively used for the transport and sales of flowers and ornamental plants from harvest and shipping to retail sales. All dedicated buckets that have deteriorated after repeated use are completely recycled and reproduced into new buckets.

Mitsui Fudosan is promoting recycling through such efforts as the establishment of its own recycling system.

Recycle Loop System for Used Paper

Mitsui Fudosan has established its own recycle loop system for used paper and recycles the used paper generated in its offices and retail properties to be reproduced and used as “Toshisaisei” (Toshisaisei is a pun on the Japanese words for recycled paper in cities and city revitalization), which is its original recycled paper for office automation use, toilet paper, cardboard and other items.
In fiscal 2007, Mitsui Fudosan collected and recycled about 8,317 tons of used paper from 49 office buildings in Tokyo that the Group administers and operates and about 1,172 tons from its retail property, LaLaport TOKYO-BAY (Funabashi City, Chiba Prefecture). In addition, Group companies (that conduct clerical work) purchased about 348 tons of recycled paper reproduced through this recycling system and reused it.

Recycle Loop System for Used Paper at Mitsui Fudosan

Subject: 49 office buildings which Mitsui Fudosan administers and operates and LaLaport TOKYO-BAY (as of the end of fiscal 2007)

Enlargement

Environment-responsive Original Carpet Tiles

Environment-responsive original carpet tiles

Mitsui Fudosan has established a system to collect used carpets that offices administered and operated by the Group disposed of, recycle them into raw material for environment-responsive carpet tiles that were developed in collaboration with TOLI Corporation, and reuse them in office buildings in the Tokyo metropolitan area. In fiscal 2007, about 5,000m² of used carpets were recycled. The volume of environment-responsive carpet tiles delivered was approximately 25,000m² and the volume accumulated since fiscal 2002 totaled roughly 215,000m².

Recycling of Food Scraps

We collect food scraps generated by restaurants, etc. in ten office buildings and two retail properties and recycle them into raw materials for biomass power generation and feeding stuff. In addition, at our Group company, Cany Corporation's Dangozaka Shop (Uenohara City, Yamanashi Prefecture; in the inbound lane of the Dangozaka Service Area along the Chuo Expressway), food scraps generated by restaurants, etc. are recycled.

Complete Recycling System for Used Fluorescent Lamps and Dry-cell Batteries

Mitsui Fudosan has established a complete recycling system for fluorescent lamps and dry-cell batteries through cooperation with five companies. Under the system, we collect and recycle fluorescent lamps and dry-cell batteries that are disposed of at office buildings administered and operated by Mitsui Fudosan and reproduce them into mercury or other items. At the beginning, the collection was conducted only in the Tokyo Metropolitan area but beginning in fiscal 2006, the extent of the target region where used fluorescent lamps and batteries are collected was expanded by adding Sapporo and Kansai. The number of buildings subject to collection of such items as of the end of fiscal 2007 was 74 buildings in the case of fluorescent lamps (67 buildings in the Tokyo metropolitan area, 1 building in Sapporo and 6 buildings in Kansai) and 73 buildings in the case of dry-cell batteries (67 buildings in the Tokyo metropolitan area and 6 buildings in Kansai), representing an increase of roughly 1.5 times as many as the previous fiscal year. Further, the amount recycled in fiscal 2007 totaled about 27.5 tons of fluorescent lamps and roughly 3.8 tons of batteries.

Complete Recycling of Used Fluorescent Lamps and Batteries

Enlargement

Introduction of initiatives conducted by the Mitsui Fudosan Group for actual projects

Experimental Area for a New Town Development That Generates an Enhanced Environment, Healthy Living, Creativity and Communication through Public, Private and Academic Partnerships

Providing a Business Environment That Combines Customer Convenience and Comfort

Disseminating the “Eco of Edo” from Nihonbashi

Environmental Friendliness of Office Buildings

Provision of Areas that Feature Eco technology

Development of urban areas that “designed to improve” and increase in value over time