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Japan's War On E-Waste

Posted by timothy on from the circle-of-life dept.

Stonent1 writes "With the increasing number of high tech devices in Japan filling landfills, Japan has taken a proactive approach to E-waste. BBC News has an interesting article on Matsushita's electronics recycling plant. For example, TV and monitor tubes are opened with a special tool and separated into leaded and unleaded glass, melted and reused in new displays! The plastic housing is also melted down and reused. Sounds like a good idea for the U.S., too."

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  1. Re:5 word by Trigun · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is really no joke. With the 3 year EOL policies of a lot of companies, there is a lot of equipment which is simply thrown away, not because it is broken, but because it's out of warranty.
    I got a handful of Cisco 2500's after a company upgraded their network. They were useless to the company, as they had depreciated too much and had been EOL'd by cisco.

    I'm just waiting for a couple of Catalyst switched to be made redundant.

  2. IBM has a recycling program for $30 by Rescate · · Score: 5, Informative

    I remember IBM offering something like this for IBM or non-IBM machines, and I found a link:

    IBM PC Recycling Service for $29.99

    Here's the link in their store:
    IBM PC Recycle / Recycling Service

    From an old press release, it looks like they are sending the machines to Envirocycle, an electronic recycler--maybe it is possible to send stuff to them directly, but I didn't see anything like that on their site.