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The Home Appliance Recycling Law is a law to recycle useful parts and materials from home appliances discharged from general homes and offices, reduce waste, and promote the effective use of resources. Law.

With the cooperation of each person, home appliances that are no longer used will be reborn as new products and resources.

Target items

Air conditioners, TVs (cathode-ray tubes, LCDs, plasma), refrigerators/freezers, washing machines/clothes dryers

Disposal Method 1

Consult with the store where you purchased the product or the store where you purchased it. At that time, a recycling fee and a collection and transportation fee are required.

Disposal Method 2

Take it directly to a designated transaction window following the procedure below.

Please transfer the "recycling fee" at the post office and receive a "home appliance recycling ticket". At that time, the manufacturer name and model number (screen size for TVs, total rated internal volume for refrigerators and freezers) are required.

Please make a phone reservation in advance and bring it with you. The five closest companies are:

Disposal Method 3

Dispose of the item at a non-compulsory item collection cooperation store in the city.

This refers to specific household appliance waste that retailers are not obligated to collect because there is no retailer from which they purchased it in the past and it is not a replacement for the same type of product. As a specific example, the following are the main possible cases when consumers try to dispose of old home appliances (4 types of waste home appliances) without replacing the home appliances.

[Main examples]

Home Appliance Recycling Law (Specified Home Appliance Recycling Law) Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry website

A quick guide to the "correct disposal" of 4 home appliances! (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry)

Inquiries regarding this article

Environmental Health Section, Citizens' Life Division

377-1 Kitsuki, Kitsuki City, Oita Prefecture 873-0001 Phone number: 0978-62-1807

Fax: 0978-62-3141 Inquiries from the mail form