Outcome of Model Project for the Recycling of Rare Metals

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  • Morishita Satoru
    Director, Office for Recycling Promotion, Waste Management and Recycling Department, Japan′s Ministry of the Environment

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  • レアメタルの回収リサイクルモデル事業の成果と考察
  • レアメタル ノ カイシュウ リサイクル モデル ジギョウ ノ セイカ ト コウサツ

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The use of rare metals is essential to the manufacturing of advanced equipment as well as smaller or lighter appliances and products. However, due to globally-skewed distribution systems among producer countries and sudden price fluctuations, it has increasingly been become clear that special care needs to be given to the procurement of rare metals.<br>Japan′s Ministry of the Environment has thus initiated a model project for the recycling of rare metals from small, end-of-life household appliances (e.g. liquid crystal, electronic parts, and secondary batteries). The project, which aims to develop environmentally sound, effective recycling schemes, is being supervised by a research group that was newly established in cooperation with the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.<br>The model project has been carried out in seven areas across Japan. It has successfully realized the most efficient methods for collecting small, end-of-life household appliances from local residents by municipalities; and has also found the expected volume of rare metals that can be recovered from such collections.

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