Waste in the Japanese office

By Ken Y-N ( March 24, 2013 at 22:05) ? Filed under Polls, Rankings

This ranking survey from goo Ranking used a word I haven?t heard for a while, mottainai, ?what a waste?, in a survey entitled what things at work do people think are mottainai?

Demographics

Over the 6th and 7th of February 2013 1,122 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 60.1% of the sample were female, 10.2% in their teens, 16.6% in their twenties, 26.5% in their thirties, 25.0% in their forties, 11.1% in their fifties, and 10.6% aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.

My place of work tries to avoid most of the wastes below, but one thing I notice in the office but not listed here is a bilingual poster that is in all the toilet cubicles that reads something like ?Please close the toilet seat after use. This saves 15 grammes of CO₂ per day.? 15 grammes of CO₂ is a bit difficult to picture, but apparently is about the same as boiling a kettle, according to Google. Talking of saving electricity, and related to number 4, here is a snap from Flickr, although from a train rather than an office:

Ranking result

Q: What things at work do you think are mottainai? (Sample size=1,122)

Rank	?	Score
1	Stuff mistakenly printed then thrown away	100
2	Meeting materials being thrown away unused	83.8
3	FAX transmission record being printed after FAXing	63.0
4	Heaters, coolers set too high	59.6
5	Lights left on in unused spaces	56.2
6	Lights on in empty toilets	43.8
7	Goods being sent out over-wrapped	41.8
8	Drinks going past their best before date	38.1
9	Lights on in empty meeting rooms	36.5
10	Single-use paper cups in vending machines, water coolers, etc	33.9
11	Updating company pamphlets every season so we have to throw away the old ones	33.1
12	Throwing away DVDs, CDs, etc once the data on them is no longer needed	31.3
13	Leaving PCs in sleep mode overnight	28.7
14	Leaving monitors switched on overnight	25.8
15	Screen savers	20.6

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