Recycling Operations with Resource-reusing Products 'Tokyo Eco Recycle'

Any resource has limits. The flow of oil will one day stop, and the amount of metals we can dig out of the ground is decreasing year by year. But, looking at it another way, we can say that we' ve just moved metal resources underground to the aboveground.
The ' Electrical Appliance Recycling Law' was created in Japan in April 2001 to ensure the effective use of resources and the reduction of waste materials. The law obligates the recovery of refrigerators, washing machines, air conditioners and televisions for recycling.
And yet, Hitachi has been conducting research and development in the recycling of waste products since 1991 and has been working over the last ten years to make practical use of appliances through recycling. These actions are based on the belief that used electrical home appliances or used computers not just waste but rather materials which should be reused or recycled.

Tokyo Eco Recycle processes 350,000 used appliances (13,000 tons worth) (FY2007 figures) each year, breaking them down into component pieces and materials. Almost all the substances so recovered will eventually be put to use again as materials.
Thanks to these continuing efforts, the ratio of direct landfill has been kept at about 0.1% since 2002, marking the first example of ' zero emissions' in Japan. While keeping up zero emissions, Tokyo Eco Recycle has managed to change itself from being a recycling factory into a 'resource creation factory'.
Recent information has also shown the major effect the company has on reducing CO2 emissions. Recycling as performed by Tokyo Eco Recycle is expected to reduce CO2 emissions by 12,000 tons for the processing of 13,000 tons worth of materials.