Product Recycling - Recycling Waste Electronic Products

Panasonic has recycled waste Panasonic-made personal computers (PCs) in Japan through dedicated transportation and recycling companies. In fiscal 2007, the number of waste PCs collected was 9,191 (a 16% increase over fiscal 2006), with a recycling rate of 69%. Moreover, some of the PCs to be recycled are transported to the Kobe Plant of the Information Technology Products Division, PAVC, and many of the parts and components disassembled and recovered are utilized as resources in PC repair processes.

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