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entering panasonic's dismantling factory: japan provides three inspirations for recycling used home appliances

2024-09-06

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[“the next focus should be on reuse,” said jiang feng, executive director of the china household electrical appliances association, at the 2024awe (china home appliances and consumer electronics expo). since china established the waste appliance recycling fund in 2012, it has basically established a recycling system for waste appliances. in february this year, the state council issued the “opinions on accelerating the construction of a waste recycling system”, requiring further improvement of the recycling system for waste appliances. the next step is to use more recycled materials in home appliance products and packaging, and to make high-level use of recycled materials, especially recycled plastics. most of them are now downgraded. for example, plastics used in home appliances can only be made into some gardening products after recycling. high-level utilization must be sorted to obtain purer materials, and then cleaned and modified to make the original products. ]

[currently, japan has about 45 designated waste appliance recycling factories and about 330 designated collection locations (similar to logistics transfer centers for waste appliances).]

this year, the country has launched a new round of home appliance replacement work, and improving the recycling and dismantling system of used home appliances is one of the key and difficult points. at present, consumers lack the awareness and channels to properly dispose of used home appliances, retailers basically do not make money from recycling used home appliances, used home appliance dismantling factories are difficult to make profits, and illegal private dismantling and illegal renovations are rampant, which still plague the development of the industry's circular economy.

during an interview at the waste home appliance dismantling factory of panasonic environmental technology center co., ltd. in hyogo prefecture, japan on august 29, a reporter from the first financial daily learned that this dismantling factory, established in 2001, operates based on japan's home appliance recycling law, and its dismantling and processing technology has been continuously improved, and it has now achieved profitability.