Tokyo, Japan, Aug 11, 2005 (JCN Newswire via COMTEX) -- Tokyo Electric Power Company started to undertake recycling of fiber cables with Hurukawa Electric. Discarded fiber cables which used to be buried underground as industrial wastes will be recycled as drums for fiber cables and such.

This is the first time that a power company is engaged in recycling practice in Japan.

As a process of recycling of fiber cables, first core wire is removed from cables to take out canning and slot rod (constructional element made of polyethylene resin). Second canning and slot rod are cut into pieces and is melted by heat. Impurities are eliminated at the point. And third it is formed into a shape of a rod, and then is cut into pellets. Those pellets are melted and recycled as drums and other products.

Tokyo Electric Power Company is preparing to start this project in 2006. 130 tons of discarded fiber cable are generated annually by Tokyo Electric Power Company. By recycling, approximately 3400 drums are produced from them, and it is able to reduce 50% of the amount of industrial wastes to be buried.