Highly Efficient Recycling Technologies for Manual Disassembly of Waste Electric Home Appliances

摘要

The recycling of waste electric home appliances, which began in Japan in April 2001, is propelling me construction of a recycling-based society. The next task of this business sector is further improvement of the recycling rate, with 2006 as the target year. TERM Corp. has already anticipated this movement in advance, and has been recycling electric home appliances by manual disassembly such as implementing the separation of glass from TV cathode ray tubes (CRTs), and easy classification and simple foreign-substance removal technology for plastic materials. This has contributed to a more than 10 percent improvement over the normal recycling rate. The recovered materials are reused as materials in electric home appliances, so that a closed recycling system has started. Products targeted for manual disassembly will also be expanded from now on, such as personal computers, as an effective method of promoting a recycling-based society.