■ Charge for shopping bags (starting July 1, 2020)
Currently, Tokyu Hands is strengthening the appeal of using my bag and working with customers to reduce the amount of packaging materials used, but we will charge for shopping bags to further reduce the amount used and waste. .. Target stores are all Tokyu Hands stores, all Hands B stores, and Plugs Market Kusatsu/Shimonoseki stores. The price is 10 yen (plus tax) for all sizes. We plan to donate a portion of the proceeds to an environmental protection organization.

■ Switching of packaging materials (starting in July 2020)
Currently, Tokyu Hands uses polyethylene-made shopping bags in addition to paper, but in consideration of the global environment, we will gradually abolish polyethylene in July 2020 and switch to paper-made shopping bags. to hold. In addition, we plan to newly use a biomass plastic shopping bag that utilizes renewable organic resources for packaging large products that cannot be handled with paper shopping bags.

■Recommended to use my bag
Tokyu Hands will address the global issue of “marine pollution from plastic waste” by changing packaging materials from July, but we will further reduce the use of packaging materials, including paper bags. To achieve this, we recommend using my bag. Since April 2020, by giving 2 points (equivalent to 2 yen) for hands club points to customers who use my bag, we are creating a virtuous circle in which customers can have a sense of participation in environmental consideration. ..

■ Initiatives for Global Environmental Conservation
・Eco in the hand
Since 2011, we have been conducting activities to sell products that are eco-friendly and that use limited resources carefully with the “eco in hand” mark. If you purchase a product with this mark, your Hands Club points will increase by 4%, and 1% of the sales will be donated to the NPO “Sorabear Foundation (*)”.
*NPO corporation that promotes awareness of renewable energy and conducts environmental education

・Hands Green Branch Project
A ballpoint pen of the “Hands Green Branch Project” in collaboration with Mitsubishi Pencil, which has sold 110,000 pieces since its release in January 2015. For the handle part, we use the thinned wood produced to maintain the function of the forest that is preserved by Tokyu Fudosan Holdings Group’s environmental activity “Connecting Green” project (*).
* Tokyu Fudosan Holdings Group’s efforts to protect forests with customers

Tokyu Hands is actively working on the SDGs (*) as a Tokyu Fudosan Holdings Group, but with this initiative, “responsibility to create, responsibility to use,” “to protect the richness of the sea,” “to protect the richness of the land” Will contribute to the realization of SDGs.
* Sustainable Development Goals: Sustainable Development Goals