Sharp holds recycling design training (basic and practical courses) for the product design and technology departments at Kansai Recycle Systems Corporation, a home appliances recycling plant partially owned by Sharp Corporation.

In this practical course, participants join the plant's product disassembly line and take apart products like TVs and refrigerators that they themselves had designed. This gives them a firsthand look at the importance of considering recycling at the design stage and stimulates ideas for designing easy-to-recycle products and for improving the product disassembly process.