Virgin pulp consumption reduced to 26,000 tons through recycling telephone directories and increasing the recycled paper content in telephone directories and telegram formsFurther reducing paper use through electronic billing and other ICT-based servicesReducing paper consumption
As a major consumer of paper resources for telephone directories
and other publications, the NTT Group endeavors to reduce
its paper usage through the recycling of telephone directories,
double-sided printing of internal documents, promotion
of paperless electronic billing, and various other measures.
These efforts have enabled us to reduce our consumption of
virgin pulp in fiscal 2005 to 26,000 tons, a decrease of about
7,000 tons over the previous year. We are determined to continue
with these and other measures to further reduce our consumption
of virgin pulp.
Initiatives
Recycling telephone directories
Production of the 129.5 million telephone directories distributed
in fiscal 2005 required a massive 80,000 tons of paper,
or 0.3% of all the paper consumed in Japan each year.
The NTT Group has been working to achieve "closed-loop"
recycling - the collection of used directories that are reprocessed
by paper manufacturers into recycled paper which is then used
for the printing and binding of new telephone directories.
Almost all telephone directories issued to our customers since
September 2001 have been produced under this system.
Reducing paper consumption through Internet billing services
NTT EAST, NTT WEST, NTT Communications, and NTT DoCoMo all offer customers who pay their bills via automatic bank
transfer or similar services a convenient billing reference service
that enables them to view details of their bills via the Internet,
e-mail, or mobile phones any time of the day. In fiscal
2005, some 538,000 additional customers began using this
service, bringing the total to 3.582 million and saving nearly
698.6 tons of paper resources, equivalent to 175 million sheets
of A4 size paper.
