Fujitsu Limited and Fujitsu Laboratories Limited today announced the development of the PC industry's first recycling system that collects used CDs and DVDs at Fujitsu Group recycling centers and reuses the plastic in the bodies of notebook PCs.

ENGADGET: Fujitsu making laptops from unwanted CDs and DVDs

To avoid the risk of contaminants being mixed into the recycled plastic, the new recycling system performs quality control based on a chemical substances risk management database developed by Fujitsu Laboratories, thereby ensuring that notebook PCs and other ICT devices comply with legal requirements for chemical components.

ENGADGET: Fujitsu making laptops from unwanted CDs and DVDs

Two Japanese research laboratories -- one affiliated with computer maker Fujitsu and the other with Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) -- announced last month that they had succeeded in sending 1 trillion bits or more of information a second through fiber optic cables.

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