Fair Overview Fair Outline Features Efforts for the Environment History Exhibitor List Exhibitor Detailed List Exhibitor Detailed Search English Guided Tour		We have implemented various measures in order to reduce the environmental burden of this event as much as possible, despite the increase in the number of participating companies and visitors every year. To design environment-conscious display booths for exhibitors, we devised guidelines that classify constituent materials of the general display booth into six categories. The guidelines recommend usage of lease and rental systems as much as possible, and in case of new manufacture, it recommends the usage of eco materials. In addition, we require all the exhibitors to submit eco check sheets based on these guidelines in order to evaluate their perspectives on the environment and to select the "Environment-Conscious Booth." The organizers of the exhibit will collect discarded materials, including display decor, and will conduct recycling activities (including partial thermal recycling). We will issue recycling certificates to participating exhibitors, informing them of recycling methods and the places where the recycled materials were sent. We use recycled punch carpets, which use recycled polyester in their manufacture, for the organizers' thematic zones and "Eco-Package Booths", which applicants can use for a fee. We separate garbage at the site into 11 categories, and compress it for transport and recycling. Cardboard, which is used for transporting materials by exhibitors, is also recycled. We are also planning to reuse and recycle unwanted goods. We will be accepting old clothes, cooking oil and cell phones. - Unwanted clothes that could still be used will be donated to people who want them. - Profits from the sale of rare metals taken from old cell phones will be donated to a conservation group to protect mountain gorillas, whose habitats are decreasing due to the mining of rare metals. - For cooking oil, only unopened containers that are beyond their expiration dates will be accepted. Collected cooking oil will be recycled as industrial raw materials. The organizers are planning to prepare lunch boxes using returnable containers in order to reduce the garbage resulting from empty lunch boxes. We also recommend such lunch boxes for exhibitors. In addition, eco-lunch boxes will be on sale at the site. Bar-codes will be sent to the cell phones of pre-registrants. The saved bar-code displayed on the cell-phones can be held over the reader, and visitors can enter the site smoothly. In order to reduce the amount of printed materials, including flyers and brochures, at the exhibition site and around exhibitor booths, a website will be available for the downloading of electronic data-processed documents to email addresses. We will be using recycling paper and/or FSC-certified paper for posters or flyers, and will be using waterless printing technology as much as possible. This year, we have adopted the idea of wearing a tag that expresses the idea of not taking what we do not need, and returning the tag when people leave. This is an idea to make Eco-Products a more environmentally conscious exhibition, and was based on a suggestion by elementary and junior high school students who visited the last Eco-Products exhibition. The 140,000 kWh of electricity estimated to be used for this exhibition will be covered by renewable energy sources, including wind power, biomass and photovoltaic generation. We are planning to adopt spotlights that use LED lamps, which use less power and have a longer life, in the organizers' thematic zones and "Eco Package Booths", which applicants can use for a fee. page top