The Kameyama Plant is a “Super Green Factory” which minimizes environmental burden to the utmost. As for process line waste, Sharp makes full use of a variety of technologies and valuable know-how to control the amount discharged then reuses and recycles as much as possible, thereby achieving zero discharge to landfill.
During the manufacture of LCD TVs, many kinds of waste are discharged—from glass used as panel material, to liquid waste from chemicals used in the various processes, to dehydrated sludge from water processing. At the Kameyama Plant, Sharp promotes the recycling of such industrial waste. For example, phosphorous-containing acid waste is reused in fertilizer. Sludge is reused in materials for improving ground solidity. Glass that contains liquid crystals is reused in cement, and plain glass is reused as roadbed material. With activities like these, the Kameyama Plant has, since it first started operation, succeeded in keeping the final amount discharged to landfill at zero.

But this is not happening only at the Kameyama Plant: Sharp is already achieving zero discharge to landfill at all its domestic production sites.