Promoting Green Procurement

DOCOMO promotes green procurement with the understanding and cooperation of suppliers. We strive to actively purchase safe, environmentally-friendly products. Environmental impact assessments are run on items not previously purchased, and suppliers are asked to adhere to the RoHS Directive1.

• 1 The RoHS Directive is a European Union regulation banning the inclusion of harmful substances in electrical and electronic devices.

Procurement Activity

Catalogs and other materials are made of environmentally friendly paper in line with the Purchasing Guidelines for Printing and Copying Papers of the Green Procurement Network2. Depending on the application, we use recycled paper with high recycled content, FSC-certified paper3 or other paper made with environmentally-friendly virgin pulp. We also use paper from our offices that we have recycled ourselves. In fiscal 2010, we increased categories of promotional tools made with recycled paper from four to six. And, in fiscal 2011, we plan to further increase use of recycled paper and increase the amount of used promotional tools collected from docomo Shops and other sources.

• 2 The Green Procurement Network was established in 1996 to promote green purchasing initiatives. It is made up of private-sector companies, government agencies and consumers, and attracts the participation of many corporations and associations.
• 3 FSC-certified paper is made of the materials from forests certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (an international non-governmental organization) for being properly managed.