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And if, in environment terms, TOSHIBA were going beyond their area…
This is our TOSHIBA group’s environmental policy for products and plants. But we want to go further and further; we are anxious to be locally implicated in the region, bring our knowledge and technical knowhow into environment protection. That is why for a few months now we have been linked to the water and watery landscape National Office “ONEMA” to help them in the analysis of migratory fish.
To know how to count and analyze large Atlantic fish that come to breed in rivers teaches us much about the composition of species stocking and number of fishes, and it allows also the quality evaluation of water. Fish become integrated into elements of the water biological quality such as plankton and other aquatic species. So in accordance with some European instructions ONEMA is now in charge of the fish check-up network.
Up to now, fish counting has been made by electronical systems located in strategic «crossing points» in rivers. There are two stations, one at the foot of the battlements of EU castle on the BRESLE and the other one on the VARENNE in TORCY LE PETIT.
Our participation target is to go into partnership with ONEMA, the departmental Federation of fishing and the secondary school of Dieppe for vocational training.
We are going to restore and improve at first the existing counting systems with the help of students and technical means.
Those WHEASTON systems are only able to count fish in three predetermined «small, medium and big» categories. This limited evaluation does not allow the analysis of important data to better know the fish passing through. So in the second phase, we would like to make the counting more precise with the help of a CCD camera.
We should be able then to distinguish the shape of fish seen, species and other characteristics.
Sea trout is also called salmon trout or silver trout. This migratory fish can adapt itself to our rivers fresh water as well as to the sea salted one. It comes in rivers to breed… Young trouts spend there from one to two years at a time before moving to the sea.
Their size can reach 90 cm and their weight 10 kg.
Electronical complexes run by microprocessors are hidden by rivers to give us information about fish passing through.
Who knew that?
River locations
Visit to E-Waste & Precious Metal Recovery Plant by TIM Managing Director
(Top management’s commitment toward waste recycling)
| Company name | Natural Arrangement Sdn Bhd |
| Location | Lunas, Kedah |
| Date | June 27, 2007 |
| Person in-charge | Ms. Goh Mei Lin |
| Facilities | Latest technology of E-Waste & Precious Metal Recovery Plant. |
| Waste items collected | 1. E-waste 2. PCB, FCBA 3. Computer component |
| DOE code | SW110, SW114 |
| Standards obtained | ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 |
TIM MD, Mr. H. Yamanaka personally visited the e-waste and precious metal recovery plant to see how the process was done.
They checked the competency of the vendor, and confirmed DOE* license, Council Permit and Police License were available and valid.
Process flow:
received e-waste from TIM → crush → screen → separator (light & heavy) → acid tank → electrolysis → lab to analysis content → dry into powder → melt to bar
Among the recovered materials are gold, cooper, brass, aluminum and others metals.
All these recovered materials will be transformed into bars before being sold on the local market.
Good effort, activities good for the environment shall continue for future generations.
| Activity item | Date | Photo |
|---|---|---|
| Acquisition of eco label (China) , All existing mass production models | From June ,2002 |   |
| Tree planting activities | Last time: 3 Sep, 2006 Plan : 20 Apr , 2008 |
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| Seminar in TESS (SZ) with 6 neighbour companies to exchange the environmental issues to improve the society environmental protection activities. | 26 Sep , 2007 |  |
| Waste treatment by catalogues | From 2004 |  |
| Students from Qiaoxing primary school (Local) visited to TESS (SZ) to understand our environemental proctection activities such recycle actions for waste treatment. | 23 Oct , 2007 |   |
| Top managers visited Paper Recycle company that be collected the waste from TESS (SZ) | Oct 25,2007 |  |
