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In Japan there is a heavy swell to transform social systems involving mass production, mass consumption and mass disposal into resources recycling ones. We discuss here the relationship between environment protection regulations and environmental businesses including R&D efforts. More specifically, we focus our attention to the movement caused by "the law concerning specific home electrical appliances and their recycling." The movement involves not only the electric industry but also municipal corporations, the transport industry, the material industry and so forth. In this paper we analyze this movement from an environmental business point of view. We propose a model consists of linear process, reuse-recycling loop and accompanied business processes. In this model the origin of profit is linear process. The linear process has to be accelerated by reuse-recycling loop, although the loop is the origin of cost. Even in the case of home electrical appliances recycling, any kind of linear process will be necessary. Maintenance, upgrading and repair service is a strong candidate for linear process. We also discuss a possibility to introduce rental service of home electrical appliances designed suitable for reuse-recycling processes.
2001-11-01