Japanese
Association for Electric Home Appliances opens
“Permanent Exhibition Booth dedicated to Home Appliance Recycling,”
the first in the East Japan area,
in the Science Museum in Chiyoda City, Tokyo!
On June 5, World Environment Day 2023, the Association for Electric Home Appliances opened a permanent exhibition booth dedicated to home appliance recycling in the Home Appliances Recycle Base on the 4th floor of the Science Museum located in Kitanomaru Park, Chiyoda City, Tokyo. The exhibition is one of the two in Japan, and the first in the East Japan area*. With easy-to-understand displays introducing “home appliance recycling,” the exhibition offers an opportunity to learn with joy for children, the future players of a recycling-oriented society.
*Based on research by the Association for Electric Home Appliances, May 2023. This is the first general facility other than recycling plants and municipal recycling centers in the East Japan area that offers a permanent exhibition dedicated to home appliance recycling.
Science Museum
Home Appliances Recycle Base
Opening Ceremony
The Opening Ceremony was held from 3 pm, June 5. Mr. Okitsu, Chairman of Association of Electric Home Appliances, Mr. Itoh, Executive Director of Association of Electric Home Appliances, as well as guests from Kanto Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry, Kanto Regional Environment Office, and Bureau of Environment Tokyo Metropolitan Government attended the ribbon cutting ceremony. Followed by an introduction of the exhibition booth and a Q&A session, the exhibition was then open to the public.
Ribbon cutting ceremony
Visitors the next day
Description of the Home Appliances Recycle Base display
The Home Appliances Recycle Base showcases actual displays of products and projection mapping, offering fun experiences for children to learn the structures of familiar home appliances and how they are recycled.
Home Appliances Recycle Base: A fun place to learn
① Display of cross sections of actual appliances
Cross sections of a refrigerator, a washing machine, air conditioner indoor and outdoor units, and a TV are on display to show that many valuable/useful resources recoverable through recycling are contained in the appliances.
② Recycling/Living show
A projection mapping show of quizzes for visitors to learn about the necessity of home appliance recycling as well as sorting technologies for recovering materials.
③ Hands-on magnetic sorting experience
Visitors can have a hands-on experience of learning the principles and mechanism of “magnetic sorting,” a method to sort iron from other metals.
④ Display of actual recovered materials
Actual capsules containing materials such as iron, copper, aluminum, and plastics recovered from crushed home appliances are on display for visitors to hold and see.
Description of the Home Appliances Recycle Base display
The Home Appliances Recycle Base showcases actual displays of products and projection mapping, offering fun experiences for children to learn the structures of familiar home appliances and how they are recycled.
Home Appliances Recycle Base: A fun place to learn
① Display of cross sections of
actual appliances
Cross sections of a refrigerator, a washing machine, air conditioner indoor and outdoor units, and a TV are on display to show that many valuable/useful resources recoverable through recycling are contained in the appliances.
② Recycling/Living show
A projection mapping show of quizzes for visitors to learn about the necessity of home appliance recycling as well as sorting technologies for recovering materials.
③ Hands-on magnetic sorting
experience
Visitors can have a hands-on experience of learning the principles and mechanism of “magnetic sorting,” a method to sort iron from other metals.
④ Display of actual recovered
materials
Actual capsules containing materials such as iron, copper, aluminum, and plastics recovered from crushed home appliances are on display for visitors to hold and see.
Facility outline
Science Museum
- Address:
2-1 Kitanomaru-koen, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo - Access:
[Tokyo Metro Tozai Line]
- About a 550m-walk from Exit 1b of Takebashi Station
(T-08)
- About an 800m-walk from Exit 2 of Kudanshita Station
(T-07)
[Tokyo Metro Hanzomon Line]
- About an 800m-walk from Exit 2 of Kudanshita Station
(Z-06)
[Toei Subway Shinjuku Line]
- About an 800m-walk from Exit 2 of Kudanshita Station
(S-05)
