Sony's way to Use Recycled Plastic in Manufacturing

Sony SORPLAS Pellets. Image Courtesy - Sony

Sony, the Japanese tech giant who implemented sustainability and renewable concepts show how they are using recycled plastic in the manufacturing world's best electronic products. Sony introduces the SORPLAS concept, which is to bring sustainability and performance to the products and conserving the environment as much possible. 

Recycled Plastic with SORPLAS vs Typical Recycled Plastic Compound materials. 

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With Sony's sulfur-based flame retardant allows them to use 99 percent recycled materials in plastics and to make them SORPLAS Pellets with color and transparent formats. There are multiple grades and density levels in the final product which does have unique capabilities compared to other plastics. SORPLAS recycled plastics are light in weight, strong and fire retardant which are used in Sony Bravia XE80 49 Inch TV. 

Another compound in SORPLAS is having the characteristics of Toughness, oil-resistant, and versatile which used in Sony alpha 99 and HX400v. Durability and elegance are a by-product that comes with the advanced unique processing way of SORPLAS. 

Sony SORPLAS Recycle Process. Image Courtesy - Sony

By using the SORPLAS concepts Sony was able to reduce the 78 percent of Manufacturing emissions compared to the typical plastic manufacturing process. With the process of making sustainable manufacturing, Sony's recycling process uses CDs, DVDs, Water Bottles and many range of plastic which is recyclable by SORPLAS recycling concepts. Longer-term development of recycling pipeline and enhancing sustainability is a key unique feature that Sony introduced and implemented.


Source - Sony