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Recycling WorkflowRecycling System (Industrial Waste) Workflow

Sanyo Syoji's Target: Burn Nothing, Bury Nothing

Industrial waste can be roughly divided into two types: recyclable resources and items to be rendered harmless and disposed of. Although rendering waste harmless is a valid method, it could cause secondary disasters. When we think about the earth and people, recycling is the best option. The ideal thing to do is to have no waste. Of course that is what we aim for at Sanyo Syoji: Burn Nothing, Bury Nothing, Recycle Everything. However, office equipment, such as computers, contains a mixture of various materials, including plastics and metals. The key to a 100% recycling rate is intermediate processing and highly accurate sorting to retrieve more resources from obsolete equipment.

After waste is brought to Sanyo Syoji, intermediate processes are all carried out by hand. We disassemble all machines following the opposite process of manufacturing in order to appropriately make use of various types of materials, such as metals (including precious metals such as gold), glass and plastics, as resources. In cases of CRT displays, for example, first, an experienced worker takes the outer cover off using a special tool, and skillfully disassembles the unit into wires, circuit boards, the cathode-ray tube, steel and non-metal parts. These are further sorted for use by other people, and will be sent to specialized businesses. It is essential to disassemble and sort by hand, even if it costs more, in order to aim to achieve a recycling rate of 100%, meaning no waste.

Furthermore, industrial development will generate new industrial waste. It is undeniable that we will have some materials that we cannot deal with using conventional technology. Therefore at Sanyo Syoji, we have been developing processing technology that can meet the needs of today while always thinking about how to protect our environment.

Sanyo Syoji is striving today to find ingenious ways of recycling our limited resources to support a prosperous tomorrow.

Recycling Workflow

Delivery
Delivery
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Unpacking
Unpacking
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Disassembly by hand

Circuit boards

  • Circuit boards
  • Mines
  • Recycled into Precious Metals

    Soldered points on ICs and condensers are melted and taken off circuit boards. Contact points are cut off and sorted using special equipment, and then pre-treated to improve the gold, palladium and platinum, etc., recovery rate when sent to a refining factory. The remaining parts of the circuit board are sent to a mine to recover precious metals and heavy metals in order to reduce the load on the environment.

Contact memory

  • Contact memory
  • Refining Company
  • Recycled into Precious Metals

    Soldered points on ICs and condensers are melted and taken off circuit boards. Contact points are cut off and sorted using special equipment, and then pre-treated to improve the gold, palladium and platinum, etc., recovery rate when sent to a refining factory. The remaining parts of the circuit board are sent to a mine to recover precious metals and heavy metals in order to reduce the load on the environment.

Plastics

  • Plastics
  • Specialized Factories
  • Recycled into Plastic

    Plastics, which are widely used in body panels and parts, are procured as raw materials and, depending on the material, are pelletized and sent to factories where they are repurposed as raw materials or turned into oil. Plastics are also used as fuel by burning in a furnace, which is another way of recycling.

Iron/steel

  • Iron/steel
  • Steel Mills
  • Recycling into Ferrous Metals

    Ferrous metals from body panels and parts are efficiently recovered on a dedicated rough disassembly line directly after the waste is brought in.

Nonferrous metals

  • Nonferrous metals
  • Non-ferrous Metal Manufacturers
  • Recycled into Copper and Aluminum

    Copper is recovered from power supplies, CRTs and wires. Aluminum, nickel, stainless steel and other alloys are recovered from various parts. This work is carried out using specialized tools, and sorting is carried out repeatedly to recover all the different types of materials.

Glass

  • Glass
  • Cullet Traders
  • Recycled into Glass

    After going through a dedicated rough disassembly line, covers are sorted into plastics. CRTs go through another dedicated line for disassembly, nonferrous metals, such as copper and nickel, are recovered from the coil, electron gun and alloy parts, and glass parts are recycled by cullet traders.

Efforts to Improve Data Security

Our Information Security Service

We have acquired ISO27001 (Information Security) certification to meet the demands of the information society. We have established a security room that is completely isolated from other processes in order to ensure safe handling and disposal of confidential information, which is processed safely and securely using state-of-the art equipment.

Security Room