The Fujitsu Group is expanding IT products-recycling service. In addition to the voluntary recycling service in Australia, Canada, and the United States, the service will be offered at an additional location in Canada and a new location in the United States. These facilities are expected to open next month.
The Fujitsu Group also expects to gradually expand its IT recycling services in Asia by the end of this spring. The company hopes to start collection programs in Singapore, Thailand, and the Philippines. The equipment collected through these programs will be disposed of appropriately by local recycling partners in each country.
Fujitsu Australia Ltd. began its "Reverse Logistics Solution" for used IT products since last April.
The Fujitsu Philippines, Inc. Group of Companies (FPIGC) has been doing its share to protect the environment, having recycled some 27 tons of various types of electronic waste from the FPIGC and its customers from July 2006 to February 2007 as a pilot project. On May 2007, FPI will formally launch an electronic waste recycling service called the "Fujitsu Take-Back Service". Customers who avail of this service are assured that their used Fujitsu IT products will be disposed of in an environmentally-friendly way.
In Japan, Fujitsu has been offering recycling service to its corporate customers since 1995, and the service is now also available to household consumers. In 2006, having acquired wide-area system approval from the Ministry of Environment for industrial waste and general waste recycling, Fujitsu began offering recycling service directly to corporate customers that have multiple locations throughout the country. Previously, customers having multiple locations needed separate contracts with logistics and waste treatment companies in the respective prefectures. With the approval, however, companies using Fujitsu products can cover their recycling needs across Japan with a single contract with us. In January 2007, Fujitsu set up a call center for recycling that customers can deal with directly, rather than going through a sales outlet.
As part of the fourth stage of the Environmental Protection Program of the Fujitsu Group, the company aimed to reach reuse and recycling rate of collected end-of-life products from corporate customers of 90 percent by the end of the fiscal year 2006, this goal was achieved one year earlier than planned by reaching 90.3 percent in fiscal year 2005. The forecasted figure for the current fiscal year is 90.6 percent.
In Europe, the Fujitsu group has established recycling system based on national laws transposed from the WEEE directive. By commencing recycling service in North America and the APAC regions, Fujitsu expands recycling service to a global scale. Recycling of IT products as one step, the Fujitsu group will actively continue to contribute to the reduction of burden on the environment and establishment of a sustainable society.