Product Recycling

Recycling Activities that Conform to the Concept of Producer Responsibility

In accordance with the concept of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), under which the producer's responsibility for its products is not limited to the product design and manufacturing stages but extends to the disposal and recycling stages as well, the Fujitsu Group carries out recycling programs that comply with the waste disposal and recycling laws and regulations of the various countries in which it operates. We also try to do as much collection, reuse and recycling as we can even in countries where recycling is not obligatory, in line with the concept of Individual Producer Responsibility (IPR), which sees each producer as responsible for its own products.

IPR is a major challenge for the Fujitsu Group in expanding its business globally, but we believe that responding to this challenge and that of EPR in collaboration with industry associations and governments will enable us to help create a recycling-minded society in which the requirements and demands of all stakeholders are met.

Promotion on a Global Scale

The Fujitsu group recycles products in EMEA and the Americas (the United States, Canada, and Brazil) and Asia (Singapore, the Philippines, Australia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Korea).

Please refer the activities for PCs.

EMEA: Fujitsu Technology Solutions (Holding) B.V. (FTS)

Through its partner companies, Fujitsu Technology Solutions (Holding) B.V. (FTS) recycles waste ICT products for corporate and individual customers in 27 countries in the EU, as well as in Norway and Switzerland. In addition, since 1988 at Paderborn, the Group's own recycling center in Germany, we have been contributing to the reuse of waste resources by disassembling products by hand so we can precisely classify and then appropriately recycle the materials. In 2010 we processed 5,037 tons of waste ICT products and achieved a resource reuse rate of 96.3%.

To disseminate these activities widely, at CeBIT 2010, the world's largest ICT related trade show held in Germany, we both presented our recycling efforts and demonstrated PC disassembling at our booth and were honored by a visit from Germany's environment minister.

Moreover, since 2008 Fujitsu Technology Solution's South Africa office has been collaborating with local waste-management companies to collect and recycle from corporate and individual customers all products of any brand, including monitors, printers, mobile phones, desktop PCs, notebook PCs, calculators, TVs, and DVD equipment. This is the first time an ICT company has provided such a service in South Africa.

Also at other overseas sites we have linked up with local recycling partner companies and promoted the recycling of ICT products.

• Singapore: Fujitsu PC Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. (FPCA) (Starting in 2007)
• Brazil: Fujitsu do Brazil Ltda. (FBR) (Starting in 2010)
• Australia: Fujitsu Australia Ltd. (FAL) (Starting in 2006)
• South Korea: Fujitsu Korea Ltd. (FKL) (Starting in 2003)