Environmentally Friendly Activities
We at Kuraray Trading Co., Ltd. are engaged in a variety of environmental tasks to help realize a sustainable society.
In addition to efforts to reduce environmental impact by environmentally friendly businesses and products, we have also conducted environmental contribution activities with the participation of our employees and activities to encourage children to think about the environment.
On this page, we would like to share with you some of the activities we have been involved in.
Social Contribution Activities by Employees
In addition to providing environmentally friendly products and services, we also strive to promote internal projects to raise employee awareness of the environment.
Cleanup Activities around the Tokyo Office
The Tokyo Head Office conducts cleanup activities around the office building.
Through this initiative, we have been certified as an active organization in the "Tokyo-Fureai-Road Program", a road beautification activity sponsored by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government.
In 2025, in recognition of our ongoing activities, a display board with the company name was installed in the cleanup area.
Activities include collecting trash from the streets, such as paper waste, empty cans, cigarette butts, etc., to help beautify the community. The event has also become a popular opportunity for interaction across departmental boundaries, with teams competing to see how much litter they can pick up and how many steps they can take.
Based on employee requests received to date, we have been working to create an environment that allows a wider range of employees to participate, such as by holding the program at various times of the day.
We will continue to expand opportunities for participation and develop this activity into something that more employees can be involved in.
Aiming for Employee Participation in Social Contribution Activities
The cleanup activities around the Tokyo office were started out of a desire to make a continuous contribution to society as a company.
In order to incorporate diverse viewpoints into the planning process, a workshop was held for young employees on the theme of "What kind of social contribution can Kuraray Trading Co., Ltd. make? As a result of the free exchange of ideas, many multifaceted ideas were proposed.
After much discussion, the current cleanup activities around the Tokyo office took shape as a concrete initiative.
Young employees who were involved in the planning of the project have commented on how rewarding it was to hear that "an activity they discussed and proposed was realized as a company initiative," and that "our own opinions are still being used as social contribution activities.
Several years have passed since the start of these activities, and we continue to listen to our employees' opinions and devise new ways to improve our activities.
We will continue to expand our social contribution activities while placing importance on creating a system that allows more employees to be proactively involved.
Children's Photo Contest
For the past 10 years, from 2009 to 2019, we have held a children's photo contest for elementary school students on the theme of eco-friendly.
The purpose of this project is to raise children's interest in the environment by asking them to express through photographs and essays their everyday awareness of "Is this eco-friendly?
Over the course of the 16 contests, we have received many entries from children.
The winning entries from the 1st and 2nd contests were exhibited at the observation deck of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, where not only the children who participated in the contest but also many other people had the opportunity to see them.
We hope that this initiative will help children, who will be responsible for the next generation, to think about the environment and become aware of the need to create a sustainable society.
Children's Camp
From 2009 to 2014, a total of six children's camps were held under the theme of eco-friendly.
The camp was attended by parents and their children who were winners of the Children's Photo Contest.
The camp offered a variety of programs that combined hands-on learning in nature with photography, including forest walks, nature observation, vegetable harvesting, cooking dinner by the children themselves, a photography class to learn about light and composition, and an early morning photography walk, under the theme of "experiencing the great outdoors to the fullest.
In the photography class, each child presented his or her own work. Along with commentary from a photographer's point of view, the lecturer talked about the thoughts and ingenuity that went into the works, what aspects of the works made them "eco-friendly," and episodes from the shooting of the prize-winning works.
The children enjoyed interacting with nature through a variety of activities and seemed to deepen their familiarity with nature.
Sustainability at Kuraray Trading
In addition to environmental initiatives, the company is also involved in compliance, quality assurance, and work style initiatives.
Through these efforts, Kuraray Trading Co., Ltd. will continue to grow sustainably as a company.
For more information, please see the "Sustainability TOP" page.
