Japanese Only - Tanaka Kikinzoku Group and TBM provide recycled school lunch trays made from recycled LIMEX CSR reports to nine junior high schools in Kamakura City

TANAKA Holdings Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Representative Director, President and Executive Officer: Koichiro Tanaka), a pure holding company of the Tanaka Kikinzoku Group, and environmentally friendly materials and products such as "LIMEX" whose main raw material is limestone. TBM Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Representative Director and CEO: Nobuyoshi Yamasaki), which develops, produces, and sells recycled trays for school lunches, collects and recycles CSR reports made by Tanaka Kikinzoku Group's LIMEX. , presented to the Kamakura City Board of Education.

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Since 2019, the Tanaka Kikinzoku Group has adopted the new material "LIMEX" developed in-house by TBM for the booklet version of its CSR report, which has been published once a year. LIMEX is attracting attention as a new environmentally friendly material because its main raw material is limestone, which is abundant on earth, and can serve as an alternative to plastics and paper, as well as contributing to the conservation of natural resources such as oil, water, and forests. are collecting. By using LIMEX, approximately 16L of water can be saved for each CSR report. Furthermore, we collect and recycle the booklets that our employees have finished reading, and in the first year we distributed them in coasters and in cups in the second year to all employees.

This is the third year since we adopted LIMEX, and with the aim of contributing to society more broadly, we have produced recycled trays for school lunches using some of the collected CSR reports. The color is gray unique to recycled LIMEX, with a globe mark in the center, the message "Made from TANAKA CSR REPORT 2021" in the lower left, logos of the Kamakura City Board of Education and Tanaka Kikinzoku Group in the lower right, and the recovered LIMEX CSR report. I designed a message using . A total of 50 trays were presented to approximately 45 people at nine junior high schools in Kamakura City, including students with food allergies.