JCCU continues to expand its environmental friendly products in the market and it aims to switch 50% of cardboard used for CO·OP products to FSC certified cardboard by the end of FY 2020. Full-scale adoption starts in April 2017 and it is the first of its kind in Japan to adopt FSC certified cardboard fullscale to private brand (PB) products.

FSC is an international forest management certification system that attest that any product with the certification has been produced from the forests that conform to the requirement of environmental friendliness contained within an FSC forest management standard.

In 2010, JCCU announced the "New Environmental Policy of consumer co-ops for 2020", recognizing environmental issues as the fundamental challenge of mankind and has been working towards building a sustainable society.

As part of this initiative, JCCU has treated FSC certified products as one of the "environmental friendly CO·OP products”, and has since been advancing.

In September 2012, JCCU released "CO·OP Tissue" and "CO·OP pulp roll single/double" as FSC certified products, and in September 2014 JCCU released beverages in paper pack with FSC certification.

JCCU will continue to actively develop and disseminate eco-friendly products, such as FSC certified products and products using recycled waste paper such as milk cartons. Below is Coop cardboard with FSC certification mark.