Achieving a Food Residue Recycling Rate of at Least 80%
First written in FY2021. 5 of 10 entries say "Advanced", first in FY2023. Latest entry: FY2026.
The whole theme swung hardest in 2024: 2 of 18 companies on the "Worse" side.
12 other companies' latest entry also says "Advanced".
- FY2026AdvancedAnnual report
「We will work toward an effective 100% recycling rate for our own food waste by further promoting recycling within the group and further accepting food waste from outside sources. The actual rate for the consolidated fiscal year was 86.3%, calculated in accordance with Article 9 of the Act on Promotion of Recycling and Related Activities for Food Cycles. The swine-farming business, positioned as part of the food-residue recycling loop, shipped 11,000 head in fiscal 2025, and we will continue working to expand its scale. We also began an initiative involving carbon-free rice, in which food residues that cannot be used as swine feed are processed into compost for rice cultivation and the harvested rice is offered as a product.」
In addition to maintaining its effective 100% target, the company disclosed a recycling rate of 86.3% and shipments of 11,000 head from its swine-farming business, and began an initiative to turn food residues into compost and commercialize the resulting rice as carbon-free rice. - 2026-06-04AdvancedGeneral Meetings of Shareholders
「食品残渣リサイクルループの一環に位置付ける養豚事業においては、令和７年度は11千頭の出荷実績となっており、今後更に規模を拡大して取り組んでまいります。また、新たに養豚の飼料化できない食材残渣を稲作用の堆肥化加工し、収穫した米を商品として提供する“脱炭素米”の取り組みを開始いたしました。」
養豚事業の出荷実績を示すとともに、食材残渣の堆肥化と“脱炭素米”の取り組み開始を記載している。 - FY2025AdvancedAnnual report
「The swine-farming business, positioned as part of the food-residue recycling loop, shipped 6,800 head in fiscal 2024, and we will continue working to expand its scale.」
Shipments from the swine-farming business increased from 3,900 head in fiscal 2023 to 6,800 head in fiscal 2024. The recycling rate for the company's own food waste also reached 87.0%. - FY2024AdvancedAnnual report
「We will work toward an effective 100% recycling rate for our own food waste by further promoting recycling within the group and further accepting food waste from outside sources. The actual rate for the consolidated fiscal year was 84.0%, calculated in accordance with Article 9 of the Act on Promotion of Recycling and Related Activities for Food Cycles. The swine-farming business, positioned as part of the food-residue recycling loop, shipped 3,900 head in fiscal 2023, and we will continue working to expand its scale.」
The company continued to target an effective 100% food-waste recycling rate and disclosed an actual rate of 84.0% for the year, along with shipments of 3,900 head in fiscal 2023 from its swine-farming business within the food-residue recycling loop. - FY2024-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「We participated in the Milk for Smiles Project launched by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and, as an initiative addressing milk waste, began selling the White Sauce Hamburger Set Meal.」
To address milk waste, the company continues to participate in the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries project and sell the relevant product. - FY2024-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「We participated in the Milk for Smiles Project launched by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and, as an initiative addressing milk waste, began selling the White Sauce Hamburger Set Meal.」
To address milk waste, the company continues to participate in the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries project and sell the relevant product. - FY2024-Q1Expanding the scope of food-waste initiativesAnnual report
「We participated in the Milk for Smiles Project launched by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and, as an initiative addressing milk waste, began selling the White Sauce Hamburger Set Meal.」
Separately from food-residue recycling, the company joined a Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries project to address milk waste and is selling the relevant product. - FY2023AdvancedAnnual report
「The swine-farming business, positioned as part of the food-residue recycling loop, shipped 2,900 head in fiscal 2022, and we will continue working to expand its scale.」
For the swine-farming business, which forms part of the food-residue recycling loop, the company disclosed shipments of 2,900 head in fiscal 2022 and indicated that it would expand the business. - FY2022RaisedAnnual report
「In 2021, we newly established the Eco-Agri Promotion Office, began initiatives in livestock and agriculture, and are working toward recycling an amount of food residue equivalent to 100% of the food residue we generate.」
In addition to achieving a recycling rate of at least 80% in fiscal 2020, the company set a higher target of recycling an amount equivalent to 100% of its food-residue output. It established the Eco-Agri Promotion Office and began initiatives in livestock and agriculture. - FY2021AchievedAnnual report
「With respect to the SDGs, our materiality, or most important issue, is food waste. Following the revision of the Food Recycling Act, the new target through 2024 for the amount of food-cycle resources to be recycled and otherwise processed is 50% for the food-service industry. We had already achieved a food-residue recycling rate of at least 80% in fiscal 2020.」
The company identified food waste as a materiality and stated that it achieved a food-residue recycling rate of at least 80% in fiscal 2020, exceeding the food-service industry's 50% target through 2024.