Recycling of End-of-Life Products
Recycle of end-of-life PC products
PC Product recycling is essential to reduce of environmental impacts at end-of-life. We are establishing PC recycling programs in each region.
●Basic Policy on PC Recycling
In the pursuit of a symbiosis with the Earth, achieved by reducing environmental impacts throughout our business processes and from our products, we are establishing recycling programs in resions where we promote sales activities. The recycling programs are set up and implemented by local sales and marketing subsidiaries.
PC Recycling Program
■Asia
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JapanThe Law for Promotion of Effective Utilization of Resources, which came into effect in April 2001, requires PC manufacturers to collect and recycle end-of-life PCs from offices.Following the revision of the law, we have been collecting and recycling end-of-life PCs from homes since October 2003.New home-use PCs were sold with "PC recycle marks" since August 2003, allowing customers to have their PCs collected and recycled free of charge.
