Fujitsu Product Recycle Effort
Establishing Recycling Systems Outside Japan
The Fujitsu Group, aware of its responsibilities as a producer of end-of-life IT products, commenced the recycling of IT equipment for business customers within Japan in 1995, before it was legally required, and has been active in product recycling ever since. Outside Japan, as well as complying the recycling laws of each nation and region in which we do business, we committed to establishing recycling systems in North America and Asia as one of the targets of our Stage IV Environmental Protection Program.
As a result, as of June 2007, we have initiated IT product recycling services in the United States, Canada, Australia, the Philippines, and Singapore, and we plan to launch recycling services in Thailand starting in October 2007.
We have selected and contracted with recycling partners in accordance with in-house guidelines based on our own experience as well as with guidelines from governments of several countries. This system enables us to offer appropriate collection and recycling service for end-of-life products with our recycling partners.
As an example of our efforts, Fujitsu Australia Ltd. started a recycling service for IT products in April 2006, and to date it has recycled some 250 tons of end-of-life POS systems from major Australian retailers. Fujitsu Philippines, Inc. operated a pilot project that, between July 2006 and February 2007, recycled 27 tons of electronic waste from its affiliates and their customers, before officially launching a recycling service for IT products in May 2007.
Currently, Fujitsu works on the recycling of used IT product in various countries listed below.
- Australia
- Canada
- Europe
- PDF Japan [729KB]
- Korea
- Southeast Asia
- Taiwan
- United State of America
