Further information on PRTR system 
Japan's PRTR Act designates substances harmful to human beings and recognized to widely exist in the environment. The main aim of the act is to confirm the nature of the releases and transfers of a company and link the results to independent assessments and improvement of voluntary chemical substance management. The table below shows the release and transfer of PRTR-designated substances that we identified and reported in fiscal 2023. Our total amount of designated chemical substances released into the environment in fiscal 2023 was 1 ton. Astellas has kept low quantity emission since 2019.
PRTR : Refers to chemical substances designated under Japan's Act on Confirmation, etc. of Release Amounts of Specific Chemical Substances in the Environment and Promotion of Improvements to the Management Thereof (Pollutant Release and Transfer Register Law)
Releases and transfers of PRTR chemical substances in fiscal 2023
(Target: Production sites and R&D sites in Japan.)
| Substance name | Volume handled | Volume Released | Volume transferred | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Air | Water | Soil | Waste | Sewerage | ||
| Chloroform | 10.770 | 0.538 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 10.231 | 0.000 |
| N, N-dimethylformamide | 1.906 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 1.894 | 0.000 |
| Hexane | 2.203 | 0.110 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 2.093 | 0.000 |
| Heptane | 13.806 | 0.155 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 13.651 | 0.000 |
| N-Methyl-2-Pyrrolidone | 21.200 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 21.200 | 0.000 |
Tabulated based on the target substances list as indicated in the Order for the Enforcement of the PRTR Act, which came into effect on April 1, 2023