Japan will implement the Small Appliance Recycling Act in April 2013

According to reports, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of the Ministry of the Environment of Japan announced recently that it will implement a recycling method for small household appliances such as mobile phones and computers in Japan in April 2013. The two provinces have also publicly recognized the types of objects and recycling practitioners of the bill. Benchmarks.

It is understood that small household appliances listed in the recyclable range include mobile phones, computers, digital cameras and other 21 types of 104 products, electronic gas stoves and electronic dust collectors are also within the scope of recovery. This law will be implemented in cities, towns, and villages. The practitioners responsible for recycling should have the ability to dismantle small household appliances for recycling. As long as they pass national relevant certification standards, they can go through various local policies and regulations and directly engage in small household appliance recycling and other related work. .

Previously, the local government had to obtain permission from local governments to recycle used small household appliances, which greatly restricted the development of recycling operations. The bill will break the limits of Japanese local policies.

The bill was jointly formulated by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of the Ministry of the Environment, the Central Environmental Council, and the Industrial Structure Review Council. It was approved by the majority of members of the Diet and will be improved through the collection of opinions in the future. The final decision will be announced in January 2013.

According to the Ministry of Environment of Japan, the implementation of this bill will promote the recycling and reuse of copper, aluminum, and rare precious metals contained in small appliances. It is estimated that about 84.4 billion yen worth of rare metals are not recovered efficiently every year. The Ministry of Environment of Japan stated that after the implementation of the law, 20% to 30% of scrap small household appliances will be effectively recovered, so that the maximum value of resources recovered and reused each year will be 16 billion yen.