Product Recycling - Recycling Waste Electronic Products

• Number of products recycled (Japan)
• Recycling rates of waste specified kinds of home appliances (Japan)
• Recovered materials by weight (Japan)

As a result of our recycling activities in fiscal 2007(April 1, 2006 to March 31, 2007) based on the Law for Recycling of Specified Kinds of Home Appliances, 2,220 thousand of our products across four types of specified home appliances were recycled at our recycling facilities nationwide, a decrease of 2% from fiscal 2006. The weight of recycled products was 68,000 tons, an increase of 3% over fiscal 2006. The recycling rate rose by between 1 point and 5 points over the previous fiscal year, due to the increased plastic recovery rate.

*Including freezers since fiscal 2005

Update on Nov 26,2007

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• Activities in compliance with environmental laws and regulations
• Efficient recycling of home appliances through the use of existing infrastructure
• 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

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• Overview of Recycling for specified home appliances (Sum Total)