Product Recycling - Recycling Waste Electronic Products

Panasonic Corporation of North America collected approximately 19,000 waste notebook PCs during 2006 through its participation in the PlanITROI Program, a consumer-friendly recycling service designed for IT products. Collected PCs are refurbished and resold or their component parts are reused after the necessary recycling processes. PCs that cannot be resold or reused as parts are disposed of appropriately by certified recyclers.

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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
• PC recycling results (Japan)
• Recycling plastics through recovery technology development and manual dismantling and thorough separation

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• PlanITROI: TOUGHBOOK Marketplace