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Overview of Recycling of Specified Home Appliances (Japan)

Last Update: May 25, 2012

This is the sum total recycled by Panasonic Corporation during fiscal 2012 (from April 1, 2011 to March 31, 2012) in accordance with the Law for Recycling of Specified Kinds of Home Appliances.

Overview of recycled four end-of-life products

Numbers after the decimal point are truncated.
Air conditioner TV Refrigerator
/Freezer
Washing machine
/Clothes dryer
CRT LCD/PDP
Collected units at designated collection points [1,000 units] 363 1,658 71 556 678
Treated units for recycling and others [1,000 units] 378 2,297 77 557 676
Treated amount for recycling and others [tons] 16,166 64,398 1,253 35,692 24,077
Weight of recycled units [tons] 13,940 52,053 974 27,967 19,888
Recycling rate [%] 86 80 77 78 82
  • Note: "Treated units for recycling" and "Treated amount for recycling" refer to the total (volume and weight) of waste electric appliances that have been treated for recycling in fiscal 2012.
  • "Collected units at designated collection points" and "Treated units for recycling" do not include units in case the manufacturer responsible for recycling, etc. has not been identified due to inputting error in manifests and for other reasons.

Overview of the recycled parts and materials

Total weight of the recycled parts and materials which are transferable to those who use it as parts or materials of product for a fee or free of charge.

Unit: tons, decimals truncated.
  Air conditioner TV Refrigerator
/Freezer
Washing machine
/Clothes dryer
CRT LCD/Plasma
Iron 5,543 5,509 470 16,140 10,946
Copper 1,122 1,951 17 369 307
Aluminum 958 72 49 13 325
Mixture including ferrous or non-ferrous materials 4,897 818 17 3,521 2,712
CRT glass - 30,762 - - -
Other valuable materials 1,419 12,937 419 7,923 5,595
Total weight 13,940 52,053 974 27,967 19,888
  • Note: "Other valuable materials" are plastics, etc.

Breakdown of recycled materials by specified home appliance

[FIGURE]Breakdown of collected materials by product family

Weights of collected, shipped, and destroyed refrigerant fluorocarbons

Unit: kg, decimals truncated.
Air conditioner Refrigerator
/Freezer
Washing machine
/Clothes dryer
Weight of collected refrigerant fluorocarbons 231,986 53,031 818
Weight of refrigerant fluorocarbons shipped to consigned destroying companies 229,082 52,176 805
Weight of destroyed refrigerant fluorocarbons 227,977 51,596 786

Weights of liquified and collected, shipped, and destroyed fluorocarbons from insulation materials

Unit: kg, decimals truncated.
Refrigerator
/Freezer
Weight of fluorocarbons liquefied and collected from insulation materials 103,220
Weight of fluorocarbons shipped to consigned destroying companies after liquefied and collected from insulation materials 101,118
Weight of destroyed fluorocarbons after liquefied and collected from insulation materials 96,869
  • Note: Difference between weight of shipped fluorocarbons and weight of collected fluorocarbons is backlog.
  • Weight of shipped fluorocarbons and weight of destroyed fluorocarbons partly include weight of fiscal 2011.
  • Difference between weight of shipped fluorocarbons and weight of destroyed fluorocarbons is due to time-lag of destruction reporting.

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