Product Recycling - Recycling Waste Electronic Products

With the objective of effectively utilizing natural resources and preventing environmental pollution, a growing number of laws concerning recycling have been enacted and come into effect in the various countries of the world. In Japan, the Law for Recycling of Specified Kinds of Home Appliances and the Law for the Promotion of Effective Utilization of Resources were enacted; the WEEE Directive in the EU and laws of this type in several states in the U.S. were enacted and took effect. Similar bills are also under deliberation in China. Panasonic's basic policy toward waste electronic products recycling is not only proactive compliance with country-specific recycling legislation, but also a willingness to take both effectiveness and efficiency into consideration, corresponding to the local situation of recycling infrastructure, etc. when developing collection and recycling systems. In this way Panasonic is tackling waste electronic products recycling in a positive manner as well as Design for Environment aiming for easy-recycling.

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• Efficient recycling of home appliances through the use of existing infrastructure
• Recycling of specified kinds of home appliances
• PC recycling
• PC recycling results (Japan)
• Voluntary collection of waste notebook PCs in America
• Recycling plastics through recovery technology development and manual dismantling and thorough separation