廃棄物輸出と国外リサイクルを含めた循環型社会の形成

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Many communities, businesses, and individuals in Japan have found creative ways to reduce and better manage their garbage or Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) through source reduction, recycling, composting and disposal in landfills or waste combustors last. Although waste amount depends in its income and waste generation and disposal reflect a range of aspects of that government revenue, we are looking the most environmentally sound management of MSW including three Rs-Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. We need to practice three Rs because our resources are limited-there is no aluminum, tin, oil, and other raw materials in Japan. Waste is would be "resources" since waste amount depends in its income and waste generation and disposal reflect a range of aspects of that government revenue. Background for 3Rs is the following. 1) Increasing volume of wastes as to 52 million tone per year of FY 2002 and rising cost of landfill and disposal, although 1, 111 gram per capita per day discharged in FY 2002 2) Difficulties in finding places for disposal because residents are not welcome transferring MSW 3) Rising public environmentallawareness and willingness for recycling wastes 4) Need to address energy conservation and CO_2 issues as countermeasures against increasing green-house gasses caused global warming. The government regulates all this waste under the law of resource conservation and recovery. The goals are to 1. Protect our environment from the waste in its community 2. Conserve energy and natural resources by recycling and recovery in own county and 3. Reduce or eliminate waste of Japan Households create ordinary garbage. Industrial and manufacturing processes create solid and hazardous waste. The most environmentally sound management of MSW depends on Community-Level Actions and private-public partnerships through the important roles of local governments as coordinators as to "Win-win" or economic and environmental benefits under thermal-recycling and material-recycling. In 2000 Japan enacted the Basic Law for Establishing a Cyclical Society or Cyclical Society Law, which was followed by several specific waste treatment laws. Among them are the Container and Packaging Waste Recycling Law, the Household Appliance Recycling Law, and the Automobile Recycling Law. Additionally, the Wastes Disposal and Public Cleansing Law has been amended a number of times. But investigation of whether waste is being reduced and whether recycling is making progress reveals many problems to be solved including illegal dumping and the export of waste to other countries. Promotion of three Rs activities in Japan are not able to resolve the problem of MSW, because requirements for treatment, storage, and disposal of MSW cost too much to do in Japan. Since 1990s, Japan exported millions ton of waste or re-product resources than she imported as hazard waste. This waste appears to be going to outside of Japan, mainly in Asian developing countries. Under Japan law, there is no general prohibition against the export of "material resources" as non-hazardous waste from Japan. MSW problems in developing countries include underdeveloped waste collection systems and inappropriate final disposal, which is causing environmental pollution and placing an additional burden on those already suffering from urban poverty. Moreover, recent levels of economic growth of China and other countries and the subsequent introduction of mass import of waste or reproductive materials from developed countries like Japan. Many developing countries may be high hopes of benefiting from the waste trade to establish a Pan-Asian Cyclical Society.
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廃棄物輸出と国外リサイクルを含めた循環型社会の形成

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