Recycling Program

The remarketing, reuse and recycling of Fujitsu products has taken place at the company’s facility in Paderborn, Germany since 1988. At Paderborn, approximately 20 percent of Fujitsu-branded equipment is reused and, currently, only three percent is disposed of. The processes of this facility far exceed the requirements set out in the WEEE directive. *

Position on Individual Producer Responsibility

Fujitsu supports the principle of Individual Producer Responsibility (IPR) and recognizes that increasing amounts of end-of-life products, if not properly disposed of, pose a significant threat to the environment.

While Fujitsu believes IPR can result in more environmentally compliant products and better accountability for equipment manufacturers, it also recognizes that IPR poses significant challenges. Even the most dedicated producer cannot meet the needs and requirements of all stakeholders worldwide in a way that is viable financially, logistically and environmentally. However, Fujitsu is dedicated to working with the industry at large in order to overcome these challenges.

Fujitsu has a track record of responsible recycling, remarketing and reuse of electrical and electronic equipment. The company’s Environmental Guideline FSC03230 produces products that lend themselves well to repair, potential upgrading, reuse, disassembly and recycling.

The Fujitsu Group already offers an environmentally sound recycle service in some countries were no take-back requirement was imposed. More information is available in English and Japanese language.

Take-back - performance

A successful example of our take-back performance is based on our 20-years of recycling experience in Germany. In 2007, Fujitsu collected and recycled 9,000 tons of IT equipment and monitors in Germany and took back, together with partners, nearly 25,000 tons across our sales region EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa).

These figures are equivalent to a take-back rate of 22.5 % in Germany and more than 30 % in EMEA equivalent to the weight of products sold seven years ago as the average timeframe between products being sold and when they are returned for reuse, recycling or recovery. **

Voluntary take-back of products

Fujitsu has installed a WEEE-compliant take-back programme in Europe – its primary sales market. More details of local programmes in the countries, are described in the Download document "Take-back and Recycling in the Countries". In markets without WEEE legislation, Fujitsu is voluntarily planning to action environmentally sound procedures to take-back and recycle its own products. Fujitsu’ parent company Fujitsu is responsible for sales in regions outside Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), and the company is initiating its own take-back and recycling schemes.

To ensure the take-back of old equipment, in our whole European, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) sales market, we will extend our voluntary take back and include countries outside the EU.

Therefore, our customers outside the EU are invited to send details of their location and the amount of old Fujitsu equipment to our contact address recycling@ts.fujitsu.com.

In addition, we already implemented a Trade-in Program where we accept any manufacturer’s equipment when customers are upgrading to Fujitsu products. We pay a trade-in allowance for the returned hardware.

In July 2008, we started a new initiative to take-back and recycle any electronic waste in South Africa with local partners. Customers are being encouraged to deposit all e-waste items including monitors, printers, Mobile phones, notebooks, PC’s and calculators – irrespective of brand. We are the first IT Company to take-back electronic waste in South Africa.

* Although we do not use recycled plastic in our products, we make sure that the products we recycle, such as plastic casing, can be used to create new, high-quality products. However we use recycled plastics for give-aways for many years.

** The collection rates are based on calculations of our sales countries Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, Norway and Switzerland. Additional figures of the other EMEA countries will be available from 2009.

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