Japan’s home appliance industry has increasingly been making use of recycled polypropylene (PP), acrylonitrile–butadiene–styrene (ABS) and polystyrene (PS); however, there…...
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The State of Home Appliance Recycling – Part 3: Circular Recycling Comes Face-to-Face With Issues
It has been some time now since the bulk of production for large home appliances moved from Japan to overseas…....
The State of Home Appliance Recycling – Part 2: Industry Ramps up Product-to-Product Recycling
When Japan first introduced recycling for home appliances, local industry was mainly focused on recovering metals, with the leftover plastic…...








