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Overview of Recycling for Specified Home Appliances
This is the sum total recycled by Panasonic Corporation during fiscal 2008 (from April 1, 2007 to March 31, 2008) in accordance with the Law for Recycling of Specified Kinds of Home Appliances.
Overview of recycled 4 end-of-life products
Numbers after the decimal point are truncated.
| Air conditioner | TV | Refrigerator /Freezer |
Washing machine | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Collected units at designated collection points [1,000 units] *1 | 280 | 891 | 543 | 583 |
| Treated units for recycling [1,000 units]*1*2 | 278 | 887 | 544 | 582 |
| Treated amount for recycling and others[tons]*2 | 11,979 | 27,195 | 33,195 | 19,600 |
| Weight of recycled units [tons] | 10,035 | 22,940 | 23,161 | 15,465 |
| Recycling rate [%] | 83 | 84 | 69 | 78 |
- *1 “Collected units at designated collection points” and "Treated units for recycling" do not include units in case the manufacturer responsible for recycling has not been determined due to misentries in manifests and for other reasons.
- *2 “Treated units for recycling” and “Treated amount for recycling” refer to the total (volume and weight) of waste electric appliance that have been treated for recycling in fiscal 2008.
Overview of the recycled parts and materials
Total weight of the recycled parts and materials transferable for a fee or free of charge.
| Air conditioner | TV | Refrigerator /Freezer |
Washing machine | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iron | 4,790 | 2,268 | 15,381 | 9,044 |
| Copper | 871 | 885 | 427 | 174 |
| Aluminum | 632 | 14 | 21 | 173 |
| Mixture including ferrous or non-ferrous materials | 3,058 | 468 | 3,022 | 2,122 |
| CRT glass | - | 14,451 | - | - |
| Other by-products with value*3 | 681 | 4,851 | 4,309 | 3,950 |
| Total weight | 10,035 | 22,940 | 23,161 | 15,465 |
- *3 "Other by-products with value" refer to other plastics, etc.
Breakdown of collected materials by product family
![[FIGURE]Breakdown of collected materials by product family](img/graphe_08.gif)
Weights of collected, shipped, and destroyed refrigerant fluorocarbons
Unit: kg, decimals truncated.
| Air conditioner | Refrigerator /Freezer |
|
|---|---|---|
| Weight of collected coolant fluorocarbons | 155,026 | 59,449 |
| Weight shipped to consigned destroying companies of coolant fluorocarbons | 154,231 | 58,224 |
| Weight of destroyed coolant fluorocarbons | 153,455 | 57,689 |
Weights of fluorocarbons liquefied and collected from heat insulation shipped and then destroyed
Unit: kg, decimals truncated.
| Refrigerator /Freezer |
|
|---|---|
| Weight of fluorocarbons liquefied and collected from heat insulation | 126,834 |
| Weight of fluorocarbons liquefied and collected from heat insulation, then shipped to consigned destroying companies | 124,148 |
| Weight of fluorocarbons liquefied and collected from heat insulation, then destroyed | 121,282 |
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