Product Recycling

Advancing collection and recycling of end-of-life IT products from the global perspective to help create a recycling-minded society.

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.

Establishing Recycling Systems Outside Japan

The Fujitsu Group recognizes the responsibility of manufacturers to process end-of-life IT products appropriately and we began the recycling of business IT products in Japan in 1995, well before the legal requirements for such recycling were enacted.
Using this as an opportunity, we have worked proactively to construct recycling systems for end-of-life IT products outside Japan as well, and, as of fiscal 2007, have constructed our own recycling systems in Europe, North America (US and Canada), Asia (The Philippines, Singapore, and Australia).

In constructing these systems, we consider both our experience in Japan as well as guidelines for recycling created by the governments of each country. We then create a standard for recycling provider selection and select recycling partners in each country based on that standard.

The Fujitsu Group makes use of this system to provide a service that collects end-of-life IT products from our customers and processes them appropriately at a recycling partner. Just one of the results of this system in fiscal 2007 was that Fujitsu Australia, Ltd. recycled about 17 tons of end-of-life CRT and POS systems from major retailers in that country. Similarly, Fujitsu Korea, Ltd. Recycled about 20 tons of electronics solid waste, mainly notebook PCs.

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• Disposal of Waste IT Equipments
• Information for Treatment Facilities
• Product Recycling Activities in Japan