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Aeon Launches Disney Character Shopping Bags Made from Recycled Materials in Japan
Aeon today announced the launch of Disney characters shopping bag made from recycled materials in Japan. The bags are made from stretching film used for products during transportation and prevent breakage while storing in warehouses. The bag priced at 55 yen (50 cents), is available in convenience store MINISTOP, Aeon, My Basket etc in Japan.…
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Toyota and partners develop world-first vehicle-to-vehicle copper recycling technology
Toyota has developed a world-first technology for recycling the copper contained in wiring harnesses,in collaboration with Yazaki ,Toyota Tsusho and eight other companies. The newly-developed technology produces copper with a purity of 99.96 percent. Roughly 40 years’ worth of mineable copper resources remain worldwide, while global consumption is growing, driven particularly by infrastructure-related demand for…
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Nissan recovers 1,549,317 airbag-related products from 450,755 vehicles in Japan through recovery processing during FY2012
Nissan today shared the progress report on its recycling/recovery efforts in Japan for fiscal year 2012 (April 2012 to March 2013). Nissan announced its recovery results for Automobile Shredder Residue (ASR), airbag-related products, and fluorocarbons recovered from end-of-life vehicles (ELVs) in accordance with the Japan Automobile Recycling Law. In FY2012, Nissan recovered 1,549,317 airbag-related products…
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Fujitsu announces PC industry’s first system for Recycling CDs and DVDs into Notebook PCs
Fujitsu today announced the development of the PC industry’s first recycling system that collects used CDs and DVDs at Fujitsu Group recycling centers and reuses the plastic in the bodies of notebook PCs. Fujitsu began using this recycled plastic for part of the front panel of its LIFEBOOK P772/E notebook PC for enterprise customers, a…
