What is the recycling rate?
The recycling rate is the percentage of materials recovered from end-of-life products. It can be counted for recycling rate only by leveraging further as parts or materials for new products, or by making the materials available to handover for value or for free to those who will use it as parts or raw materials again. Thus, the recycling rate standard of the Japanese Home Appliances Recycling Law should be extremely strict compared with world’s other recycling laws. The recycling rate is usually calculated based on the weight, but the Japanese Home Appliance Recycling Law stipulates a minimum recycling rate of 50% for flat-panel TVs, 55% for CRT TVs, 70% for air conditioners, 60% for refrigerators, and 65% for washing machines/clothes dryers. At PETEC, whose goal is “from products to products,” we are able to maintain recycling rates that are higher than those enacted by the law. It has much to do with the technologies of splitting the CRTs of TVs, finely separating the copper and alum
