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Priority Issue 3: Hazardous Materials Management

The company is working to clean up naturally occurring soil contamination, and formulating in-house rules for asbestos management.

Hazardous Materials Management

Naturally occurring heavy metal pollution in soil

Heavy metals such as arsenic and lead are well known for their harmfulness to human health, and are commonly present in nature. Care must be taken to ensure that contamination is not spread when soil is dug up in one place and transported to another. Accordingly, Kajima always works with its customers to check for naturally occurring pollutants before transporting soil that may be contaminated.

Handling of polluted soil on company land

Kajima conducts geotechnical and environmental surveys on all company-owned land and undertakes field investigations before land transactions and earth works. If pollution is discovered, the pollutants are removed and the matter is publicly disclosed. In the one geotechnical and environmental survey conducted in 2008, no pollution was found.


Volume of hazardous materials treated:
Material containing asbestos 7,100 tons
CFCs and halon recovered 9 tons
Number of devices containing PCB 368
Fluorescent tubes 38.4 tons

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