Figure 2-26 Results of recycling rate of waste home appliances: four items (fiscal year 2008)

Items	Air conditioner	TV	Refrigerator & freezer	Washing machine
Number of appliances collected from designated sites	[thousand units]	1,968	5,365	2,746	2,821
Number of appliances recycled or processed	[thousand units]	1,968	5,210	2,733	2,818
Weight of appliances recycled or processed	[tons]	82,746	156,546	163,056	94,010
Weight of appliances recycled	[tons]	73,698	139,476	121,331	79,894
Recycling rate	[%]	89%	89%	74%	84%

Note 1: The number of appliances recycled or processed, and the weight of appliances recycled or processed refers to the total number and gross weight of waste home appliances to which recycling processing and the like was applied.

Note 3: Regarding the number of appliances collected at designated sites and the number of appliances recycled or processed, if manufacturers or other operators carrying out recycling have not been assigned, due to an error in recording a control sheet or the like, such waste appliances are not included.

## ☑ Recycling status of parts and materials

○Total weight of parts and materials when they are processed into a condition that allows them to be transferred, with or without cost, to manufacturers who will use them as materials for or parts of a product

Air conditioner components

TV components

Refrigerator & freezer components

Note: “Other valuables” refers to plastics.

Washing machine components

Source: Ministry of the Environment, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry

rate will continuously increase to attain the targeted recycling rate of 95%, which was set up for fiscal 2010 (Figure 2-28). Concerning construction generated polluted mud, effective utilization of the mud is developing, following the “Guidelines on the Reclamation of the Construction Generated Polluted Mud,” drawn up in June 2006.

Moreover, concerning construction generated mixed waste, it has been thought that the segregation of construction by-products suitable for recycling purposes will be effective, therefore, it has been considered that the establishment of a “combined collection system for small lot wastes” would be necessary to effectively collect in their sorted state such small amounts of diversified construction wastes for recycling. The “Conference for Establishment of a Combined Collection System for Small-Lot Construction By-Products in the Tokyo Metropolitan District” was set-up in June 2005, in order to promote the examination of the matter.

### F. Construction generated soil

The actual amount of construction generated soil from construction sites was about 140 million cubic meters in fiscal 2008, 34 million cubic meters were reused for other constructions, a rate of 24%. On the other hand, while the amount of new materials taken out of the soil used for construction decreased by 33% from fiscal 2005, the reuse rate of construction generated soil in fiscal 2008 was 78.6%. It was not possible to achieve the target of 87%, which was set in the “Construction Material Recycling Promotion Program 2008” for fiscal 2012. Various approaches are being developed to promote the reuse of construction generated soil in other constructions.