Yasunori Kijima

General Manager, Environment Department, Association for Electric Home Appliances
(1-1-11, Atago, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-8472 Japan)

Abstract

The spread of electric home appliances has been useful for improvement of today's rich living standard. But, from the culture to dispose of in large quantities, the sustainable richness cannot be expected. And the recycling by the original product manufactures is to start in 2001 under the new law in Japan. I introduce their conventional action, the preparations for the new recycling age and problems to be solved.

Key words: electric home appliances, product assessment, cooperative support system for the proper treatment of used electric appliances, development of technology to recycle used appliances, law for recycling of specified kind of consumer electric goods, waste disposal and public cleansing law