Transcript Benefits of Environmental Management System (EMS

Learn Mottainai in Yamaguchi.
Aprende Mottainai en Yamaguchi.
A welcoming introduction to the
environment management system
Eco-Action 21 at YPU with
Mottainai-mind as its background
by Prof. Yuji ANKEI (Sc. D.)
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Mottainai as an international word
Kenyan environmentalist Wangari
Maathai, who was awarded the Nobel
Peace Prize, tried to seek out zn
equivalent word for “Mottainai” in
other languages, but in vain. No single
word was found that includes the mind
of respect and love for things and that
means the concept of “Reduce
(consumption), Reuse, Recycle, Repair”.
So she uses the word “Mottainai” itself
as an international lexicon.
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（After Wikipedia)
Mottainai = wasteful?
• Mottai + nai = lack or neglect of mottai
• Mottai = Due respect for the inherent,
irreplaceable value in a thing or
a person.
• Mottainai is somewhat a religious term
to refer to abuses against the animistic
cosmology of traditional Japan
→Bachi = Punishment from deities
(not a simple bad luck)
• Cf. Mottaiburu, Mottai wo tsukeru
= to give excessive value to small things
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Examples
• Treading the earth with too big an
ecological footprint is mottainai = not
sustainable. If all humankind prefered to
live like an average Japanese, we’d need
at least another globe to sustain us.
• ISO 14001 is mottainai as an EMS for
the scale of YPU.= too expensive
• Throwing away still recyclable materials
is mottainai.= inappropriate because they
need proper sorting.
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What is ecological footprint?
• The phrase "ecological footprint" is a
metaphor used to depict the amount of land
and water area a human population would
hypothetically need to provide the resources
required to support itself and to absorb its
wastes, given prevailing technology. The
term was first coined in 1992 by Canadian
ecologist William Rees
• From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ecological footprint of the nations
Source: http://pthbb.org/natural/footprint/img/cartogram.gif
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http://www.environment.sa.gov.au
• "There is enough for
everybody's need, but not
enough for anybody's
greed," said Gandhi.
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Why Environmental Management
System (EMS)?
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Safe working environment
Legal compliance
Reduced waste
Pollution prevention
Competitive advantage in research
Enhanced internal management efficiency
Incentives for Environmental Stewardship
• YPU is the first university in Japan to adopt EA21
certified EMS of the Ministry of Environment 8
EMS Model (PDCA cycle)
Continual
Improvement
Environmental Policy
Management Review
by Chancellor
Checking &
Corrective action
Planning
Implementation
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EA21 (Eco Action 21)
• Specification standard for EMS, similar to
the international ISO 14001
• Contains only those requirements that may be
audited for certification
• Provides framework for EMS and based on
Deming’s Model of Management
• Plan-Do-Check-Act
• EA21 was created in Japan for small-scale
offices and companies (since Nov. 2004)
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Benefits
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Create a safe working environment
Enhance career opportunities
Resume enhancing
Grab research grants
Audit the Management system
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Students’ role and responsibility
• Students are the most important members of
YPU as we aim at a Mottainai campus.
• Understand our Environmental Policy.
• Follow established work procedures, and try
yourself to make them more fruitful.
• Join environmental activities directed by the
student committee.
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Environmental targets for 2006
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Reduce electricity consumption (minus 5%)
Reduce paper use (minus 3%)
Reduce water use (minus 3%)
Properly sort all the trash (100%)
Reduce trash (minus 3%)
Park cars and bicycles in designated parking
areas only (100% by 2009)
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Where to throw away this waste?
A practical manual on
and off the campus
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Sorting trash boxes made by YPU students
←おたすけ ばこ
“Help me” trash box
for poor sorters.
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Acknowlegments
• EA21 committee of YPU provided me
with the basic information.
• This presentation was partly adopted
from the following webpage:
http://campus.umr.edu/ems/Whats_New/New
sletter/Mani-Ems.ppt written by Mani
Balakrishnan (M.S. Environmental
Engineering-UMR)
• Prof Marylin Higgins of YPU polished
the text.
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