East Coast Environmental Conference
April 27, 2006 in Westin Hotel Halifax,
Nova Scotia, Canada
Presentation Theme

Japanese Incineration
Focused Waste Management &Citizen Involvement
Teiichi Aoyama,
Prof. Faculty of Environmental and Information Studies
Musashi Institute of Technology

Komichi Ikeda,
Deputy Director, Environmental Research Institute
Copy right: Environmental Research Institute, Tokyo andAoyama Labo. of Musashi Institute of Technology

World Ranking ofEnvironmental Sustainability Index(2002)
in Davos(Swiss) Conference

1.Finland
2.Norway
3.Sweden
4. Canada…….
62. Japan

Japan isNo.62

CONTENTS
1. Present State of Japanese Waste Management in FY2003-Amount of discharge and treatment system and method- Cost of waste treatment
2. Challenges of Japanese Waste Management- Control of National Government (subsidy and regulation)- High dependency on hardware (Incineration and land fill) and high cost
- Promotion of Plastic waste incineration for the extension of the life of landfill site
- Closed decision making process (lack of citizen participation)- Lack of communication and discussion among stake holders.
- Increased law suit concerning construction of incinerator and selection of land fillsite.
3. Environmental Risk concerning Waste Treatment- Air Pollution by trace chemicals (dioxins, metals and VOCs etc.) emitted from thestacks of incinerators and melting furnaces (Pyrolysis )of MSW and industrial
wastes.
- Most of the citizens are concern about plastic waste incineration as thermal
recovery- Citizen Participatory pine needle monitoring of ambient air- Citizen Participatory soil monitoring for heavy metals
4. What we need towards Zero Waste in future- Local autonomy, citizen participation, stakeholder involvement,- Alternative technology and measures for incineration and landfill

Waste in Japan (FY2003)
Discharge amount
Incineration %Final Disposal
Recycle Rate

Municipal SolidWaste
51 million ton
78 %
3.6%
17%
1%

Industrial Waste(see Fig. below)
412 million ton
75%
7.3%
49%

Contentsof the Industrial wastes
Industiral waste

1%
1%
2%
4%

1% 3%

4%

47%

14%

22%

Slude
Animal Excrement
Tiles and pebbles
Slag
Ash
Metals waste
Wood chips
Plastic waste
Glass,Concrete and China waste
Waste oil
Others

Fujimi Lake
Its natural beauty andEcosystem was totally
devastated by thehuge incinerator.

One of the law suit case

Local Governments constructed
Pyrolysis for industrial wastes
And final disposal site Subsidized by National Gov.

Total cost of this project; ¥23.1 bil. ($257mil.CA)

Landfill Area: 97,700m2
Capacity: 2,400,000m3

Population;
30,000 in Kasama city
3mil. in Ibaraki prefecture

Pyrolysis 145t /dayA Trend of the Amount of Waste (1994〜2003)
The amount of waste per head per day

The total amount of MSW

Source:MOE , 2006.11.14 press release document
The amount of waste (Municipal Solid Waste) had not decreased for decade!
The total emission of waste had been kept over 50 million tons/year.
The amount per head per day had been constantly over 1,000g!

Nerima Ward

48.16k㎡

23 Wards in Tokyo

６２１k㎡

Capacity
520t/day

300t/day ×2 furnaces
Constructed 1992, ¥10.5bil.
Capacity
300t/day

150t/day ×2 furnaces
Constructed 1983, ¥10.5bil.

Ocean
Tokyo Bay
Population : 687,726
Pop.Density: 14,280/k㎡
Waste Collection by Municipal Gov.(Nerima)● Burnable waste
・・・２ /week● Non-burnable waste ・・・１ /week (Landfill)● Recyclable collection
Paper waste
・・・１/week
Food cans and bottles ・・・１/week
Pet bottles
・・・１/week(Partly)Source: Report of Nerima ward,2003

Source: Report of Nerima ward,2003

Municipal Solid Waste (Rate of Household and CIC)
Total Emission is about 51,610,000 tons/year

ICＩs
garbage
33%

Householdgarbage
67%

In urban areas like Tokyo and Osaka, the the ratio of CICs waste arevery high; Osaka is the highest city in Japan (60%).
Source:MOE , 2006.11.14 press release document

A Trend of Waste Treatment (1994〜2003)
Landfills disposal
Direct diversion toresource recovery

78%

Interim treatment
for Resource
RecoveryIncineration

76%

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９５

９６

９７

９８

９９

００

０１

０２

０３

Incineration rate had increased gradually, national average was 78%.
Some of the Municipalities are over 95%. What a Incineration-ism!!
Source:MOE , 2006.11.14 press release document

A Trend of the Recycle Rate and the Total
Amount of Recycled Resouces
17％

R

te
a
r
e
l
c
y
ec
Amount of resources
集団回収量

collected by residents

9％

Amountof resources
中間処理後
recycled after interim
再生利用量
treatment
Amount of resources
直接資源化量collected by the Local
Municipalities
９４ ９５

９６ ９７

９８ ９９ ００ ０１ ０２

０３

Recycle rate had increased from 9% to 17% during the decade, but
actually it is only 11% diverted from the wastes.
Source:MOE , 2006.11.14 press release documentDecrease in Number of Incinerators
Bigger Scale -------------Æ Smaller scale

９４

９５

９６

９７

９８

９９

００

０１

０２

０３

The number of the incinerator had decreased from 1887 to 1396 in
decade. Almost 500 decrease during the decade.
Source:MOE , 2006.11.14 press release document

A Trend of the Capacity of Incinerators:Increasing
Bigger Scale -------------Æ Smaller scale
Total amount of waste is 50 Mil.t/year=137,000tons/day

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c
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０２

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It had increased from 185 to 194 thousand tons/day during 10 years.
It is excessive capacity compared to the waste volume.
Source:MOE , 2006.11.14 press release document

Residual Capacity and Time of Final Landfill Sites
Residual capacity of Landfill sites:137mil.m3 in 03

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Residual capacity had decrease because of the amount of bottom ash
had increased. But residual time had increase gradually!
Source:MOE , 2006.11.14 press release document

Waste Treatment Flow in Japan
Resource collection
by residents RC

A
Resources＋

Diversion

B

Total Recovered＝ Resources

Recycled
Resources＋
Bottom Ash

Planned treatment
51,390,000t

Incineration
VolumeReduction

Waste Emission
51,610,000t
DirectLandfill
Home treatment
250,000t

Amount of
Ash to beland filled

Toxic
chemicals
to the air

Landfill
Landfill
Final
Disposal

Source:MOE , 2006.11.14 press release document

A ＋ B ＋

17% in 2003

RC

Recycle Rate＝Total Waste Emission volume ＋ RC

Capacity and Surplus of our Incinerators
The more we invest to build the incinerator , the more waste
increase..
Performance↓
because of
205regulations

45%
処理能力の余力（稼働日数335日/年と仮定）

c i tyCapa

191

187 188
40.1%
39.5% 39.4%

41%

39%

of

era
n
i
c
n
I

201

tors
192

192

40.1% 40.0%

surplus199200
195

195

38.7%

38.2%177

202

reinforce theperformance190
for dioxin
problems
185
39.5%
180

38.8%

38.1%

175
170

37%

165
35%

Waste ↑,
surplus↓

処理能力合計 [千t/日]

Performance
Capacity ↑Surplus↓、
reinforce theperformance 43%

160
H5

H6

H7

H8

H9

H10

H11

H12
WasteH13↑, H14surplus↓
Source: ERIA Trend of the Average Cost of Waste Treatment

Total Cost : Over 2 Trillion Yen (20 Bil.$)

Treatment and Maintenance Cost

Personnel Cost
Subcontract Cost

・Also the average cost of waste treatment has increased since 2002.
Total cost is 2 trillion yen (C$22bil.). The cost per head per year isalmost 15-20 thousand yen(C$333)
Source:MOE , 2006.11.14 press release document

Increase of National Subsidies for MSW Incineration Plant Construction
for Local Governments (Municipalities)
100

Unit:billion yen

90

The subsidies start increasing from1972 and leached peak in 2000.

廃棄物処理施設整備費予算額
[十億円]

80
70
60
50
40
30
20

2000

1999

1998

1997

1996

1995

1994

1993

1992

1991

1990

1989

1988

1987

1986

1985

1984

1983

1982

1981

1980

1979

1978

1977

1976

1975

1974

1973

1972

1971

1970

1969

1968

1967

1966

1965

0

1964

10

年度

Incinerators

ごみ焼却施設ごみ燃料化施設

Copyright:Greenpeace Japan & Environmental Research Institute, Tokyo

Power generation
Source:ERI

Serious problems of waste policies in Japan.
１. Government promotes policies put too much emphasis on hardware
such as incinerators or melting furnaces(pyrolysis).
２. They just think that wastes will be generated and must be properly
incinerated and land filled. (Waste ≠ Resources)
３. End of pipe Æ Excessive dependence on technology
４. Excessive dependence on national subsidies Æ Municipalities aresubordinated to National government
５. Government is unconscious of expenses Æ unfair cost burden
６. No one takes the responsibility = the lack of EPR, PPP principle
７. Unconsciousness of consideration for environmental impact.
(Impact on Area-wide, global, next generation, eco-system)
８. On one hand government (Municipalities) actually decides policies
without people’s opinion; on the other, the people tend to put
the problems under the government decision.
ÆCitizen Involvement, participation is necessary.
More democratic decision making process is necessary.

East Coast Environmental Conference2006

Japanese Incineration
Environmental Advocacy!!

Teiichi Aoyama,
Musashi Institute of Technology
Komichi Ikeda
Environmental Research Institute Inc.

Change Waste Management Policy
in Japanese Large Cityin Nagoya City
Nagoya City
Population 2.5 million

source:Environmental Research Institute, Tokyo

Epoch of Nagoya City
(Emergency Declaration)

1200

●

1000
248

260

252

261

270

272

295

300
257

600

691

平３

平４

平５

709

713

725

742

750

平１０

692

平９

698

平８

692

平７

687

平２

400

平６

市民搬入
市収集

平元

698

200
0

平１１

千トン

800

250

280

資料：名古屋市第２次一般廃棄物処理基本計画より作成

Nagoya City had to preserve the tidal flat and estuary of
Nagoya Bay for Migrant and gave up the plan ofConstructing new landfill site there!!

source:Environmental Research Institute, Tokyo

Financial Burden of Resource Recovery in
Municipalities (in case of Nagoya City)
名古屋市「ごみ非常事態宣言」後の成果
1400

1.2 mil.ton Emergency
declaration

1200

Resource
Recovery

千トン

1000
800
600
400
200
0
1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003
ごみ量

Solid
waste

資源回収量

・Nagoya City declared Emergency for her solid waste treatment in 1998, because
she had no additional space to dump the solid waste in Nagoya Bay.
・The emission volume of waste had decreased gradually, but on the contrary, theresource recovery increased. This makes Nagoya City serious for the financial
burden for the cost of collection and storage of recovered resources.

PET Bottle Recycle in Japan
500
400
千トン

・Production of PET is increasing
・Collection of PET is increasing
・but 50% goes to waste;→Incineration or landfill

Law on Recycling Containers
Bottles and packages

300
200
100
0
1995

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003

千トン

生産量 回収量
廃棄量 Waste
Production
Collection

・Municipalities who collectthe PET as resource havebeen increased, and therecovery % is also increased,
but the financial burden is tooheavy for them！！

3500
3000
2500
2000
1500
1000
500
0

60
50
40
30 ％
20
10
0
1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003
分別収集実施市町村数

回収率

Municipality of% of Recovery
PET separation
出典：環境省発表 統計資料より作成（ＥＲＩ）

A Trend of Dioxin Concentration in the Ambient Air（Average Conc. and the number of the monitoring points）
Environmental quality standard for ambient in Japan
900
762
731
800
705
691
700
600
500
400
300
0.14
0.14
0.093
0.064 200
100
0
２０００

１３

年

１２

年

１１

年

１０

１９９９

度

１９９８

２００１

２００２ ２００３

平

成

９
年

度

１９９７

度

63

0

度

0.1

年

0.18

１５

0.2

度

0.23 381 353

年

0.3

１４

0.4

度

pg-TEQ/m3

0.5

度

0.55

年

0.6

This density is 6times higher than in EU or in U.S.A.
Source: FY 2003

Number ofmonitoring point
地点

Average Conc.
平均値
Number of
地点数
monitoring
point

Report of Dioxin Monitoring、2004,9 Ministry of Environment

A Trend of the volume of dioxins emissions（Dioxin Emission Inventory to the Air）
大気への排出量の推移
9000
8000

70-80% comes from incinerators

g-TEQ/年

7000
6000
5000

Cars
自動車排ガス
Tobaccos
たばこの煙＊
産業系発生源Emission source from industry
Crematory
火葬場＊
Small incinerator
小型廃棄物焼却炉等＊
産業廃棄物焼却施設
Incinerator for industrial waste
一般廃棄物焼却施設
Municipal Solid Waste Incinerators

4000
3000
2000
1000
0
平成９年
1997

平成10年
1998

平成11年
1999

平成12年
2000

平成13年
2001

平成14年
2002

平成15年
2003

Source：Dioxin Emission Inventory （Summary) 2004.9 Ministry of Environment Japan

Dioxins emissions had decreased from 8kg to 400g in seven years. But
it’s inferred from many problems of this data that the actual emissions is larger.

Dioxin Concentration Levels in the Ambient Air(in 1990’s)
Australia
CanadaNear dioxin source
Farm village area
Non-polluted area
Farm village area
City/industrial area
Farm village area
The suburb
City area
Back ground
Farm village area
The suburb
City/industrial area
Back ground
City area
Back ground
Small/medium city
Large city
Near industrial area

0.00

The Netherlands
Environmental
quality standard(0.6)

SwedenGermany
U.S.A
Japan

0.20

0.40

0.60
0.80
pg-TEQ/m3

1.00

1.20

1.40

出典：日本については、平成８年度環境庁調査結果より、諸外国はA.K.D.Liem等の論文より

0.6
0.5
0.4
0.3
0.2
0.1
0

オーストリア デンマーク

スペイン

Austria

Spain

Denmark

ポルトガル

Portugal

台湾

Taiwan韓国

South Korea

農村部

大阪（松葉から推計）

中国・九州（松葉から推計）

千葉県（松葉から推計）

全国平均

安山市（工業都市）

水原市（中小都市）

高濃度地域

低濃度地域

ポルト（高濃度時期）

ポルト（低濃度時期）

農村部

都市部

工業地域

農村部（西30km）

農村部（北30km）

コペンハーゲン

1.23

ウィーン

pg-TEQ/m3

Dioxin Concentration Levels in other Countries (after 2000)

日本

米国

Japan

U.S.A.

In Western city area and farm village area, the concentration level of Dioxin is
0.01〜0.02pg-TEQ/m3.
In Japan, the average con. level has reduced to 0.059pg- TEQ/m3 (2003).
出典：国際ダイオキシン会議（Dioxin2004 in Berlin) の発表論文集より作成（ERI）

Citizen's Participatory Environmental Monitoringby Pine Needle as Bio-Monitor of Dioxin

Chugoku Area

Kyusyu Area

6 years continuous Monitoringfrom 1999-2004
source:Environmental Research Institute, Tokyo

Copyright:Environmental Research Institute, Tokyo

1999

2002

2000

2001

Gradually, the dioxin conc.level has been improved.
2004
2003

Copyright:Environmental Research Institute, Tokyo

Monitoring in 2004
●Illegal operation of Industrial
waste Incinerators●Industrial waste incinerators●Waste PCBs incineration Plant●RDF Power plant

Copyright:Environmental Research Institute, Tokyo

Comparison between average dioxin conc. in ambient air
measured by government and calculated conc. on the basis ofpine needle survey (Kyushu and Chugoku area)
0.2

0.18

pg-TEQ/m3

0.154

0.1460.15

0.15

0.13
0.096

0.1

0.093
0.092
0.0730.064

0.05
01999年度

2000年度

2001年度

2002年度

2003年度■: Estimated conc.
level from ■：Ambient air monitored by
GCエリア内大気推定 全国平均大気
Pine needle monitoring

government

Parameters of pine needle analysis are only PCDD/PCDF. It was
assumed that Co-PCB accounted for 10% of the whole.
Source: FY2003 The Results of Environmental Monitoring of Dioxins、MOE, made by ERI
Copyright:Environmental Research Institute, Tokyo

As

Cd

Heavy Metal Soil
Contamination
In the Vicinity of MSW
Incineration Plant

Pb

Copyright:Environmental Research Institute, TokyoＤｅｎｓｉｔｙ ｉｎ ｌｅｅｗａｒｄ ｉｓ ｈｉｇｈResults of Pb
Contamination of Soilin Yokohama City
Vicinity
VicinityofofHazardous
Hazardous
Industrial
IndustrialWaste
WasteIncinerators
Incinerators

Residential
ResidentialAreas
Areasclose
closetoto55
large
largeMSWMSWIncinerators
Incinerators ofofratherratherold
oldtypetype(Mostly(Mostlydown
downstream
streamareas)
areas)
Areas
Areasofof>50μ/g>50μ/g areare23
23points.
points.
Among
Amongwhich
which11
11areasareasarearenearnear
thetheIncinerator
Incineratoror
orFinalFinalDisposal
Disposal
site
siteororelectric
electriccodecoderecycling
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facility.
Copyright:Environmental Research Institute, Tokyo

Dioxin Concentration Levels in Ambient Air had decreased！
However, the state of waste has not changed dramatically.
１ The waste has been incinerated in decade.
・The amount of waste has not decrease.
・Carbon dioxide and hazardous substance have emitted by Incinerationin order to reduce the volume of garbage.
・Total amount of final disposal (landfill) has decrease, but that of bottom ash
has not decrease so much.（13% reduction in decade）

２ Recycle rate has not increased so much.
・Recycle rate is only 11%.
・Including the amount of collection by residents ,recycle rate had increased
from 9% to 17% only.

３ The number of incinerator had decreased under Law ofcontrolling Dioxins (Emission regulations etc.).
・Although the number of incinerators had decreased by 500 in decade, theamount of waste had not decreased. It was a vicious circle〜The capacityof the incinerator is raisedÆ The amount of waste increasesÆ Again theincinerator is improved…

East Coast Environmental Conference2006

Japanese Incineration
Meet Halifax and Nova Scotia!!

Teiichi Aoyama,
Musashi Institute of Technology
Komichi Ikeda
Environmental Research Institute Inc.

Ｆｅｂ． ２００３

Source:Environmental Research Institute, TokyoＦｅｂ． ２００３

Source:Environmental Research Institute, Tokyo

Near Mahone Bay

Ｆｅｂ． ２００３

Near Mahone Bay

Source:Environmental Research Institute, Tokyo

Peggy’s CoveAug．Aug.
２００３

Ｎｏｖａ Scotia Solid Waste Management Ｃｏｎｆｅｒeｎｃｅin Ｃａｎａｄｉａｎ Ｅｍｂａｓｓｙ Tｏｋｙｏ
Source:Environmental Research Institute, TokyoSep． ２００３

Source:Environmental Research Institute, TokyoSep． ２００３

歓迎レセプション会場となったシタデル
Source:Environmental Research Institute, TokyoSep． ２００３

Tire Recycle Facility
Source:Environmental Research Institute, TokyoSep． ２００３

Nova Scotia – Japan
NGO Symposiumin Halifax

Source:Environmental Research Institute, TokyoSep． ２００３

Paper Recycle Factory
Source:Environmental Research Institute, TokyoSep． ２００３

Weekend sightseeing
Source:Environmental Research Institute, TokyoSep． ２００３

世界遺産都市World Heritage Village
Lunenburg Nova Scotia

Source:Environmental Research Institute, Tokyo

発生抑制・「脱」焼却・「脱」埋立による循環型社会構築

カナダ・ノバスコシア州への現地視察 2003.2-3,8-9
環境総合研究所・武蔵工大青山研究室

Research Pre-meeting in Environmental InstituteSep． ２００５

Source:Environmental Research Institute, TokyoPre-meeting in Aoyama Labo. of University

Sep． ２００５

Source:Environmental Research Institute, TokyoSep． ２００５

RRFB in Valley
Nova Scotia
Source:Environmental Research Institute, TokyoSep． ２００５

Charted Bus run over
1000km in Nova Scotia
during few days.
Source:Environmental Research Institute, TokyoSep． ２００５

Composting Facility
In Halifax
Source:Environmental Research Institute, TokyoSep． ２００５

MRF
Source:Environmental Research Institute, TokyoSep． ２００５

Valley Transportation
Facility
Source:Environmental Research Institute, TokyoSep． ２００５

Paint Facility
Source:Environmental Research Institute, TokyoSep． ２００５

Lunenburg in Weekend
Source:Environmental Research Institute, Tokyoカナダ（連邦国家）
プロビンス（州）
ノバスコシア州

基礎自治体（市町村)ハリファックス市

Nova Scotia の由来・意味
Nova = New
Scotia = Scotland
Source:Environmental Research Institute, スコットランドから移住したひとがつくった国（州）Tokyo

MAXIMUM WASTE DIVERSION SYSTEM
Source Separated
Collection

Three Material
Streams

Organics

Recyclables

Residual
Waste

Facility
Processing
Composting
Facility

Recycling
Facility

Landfill
Facility

出典：ノバスコシア州政府 Barry氏パワーポイント

Importance of Environmental Education

Source:Environmental Research Institute, TokyoEast Coast Environmental Conference2006
Japanese Incineration

It’s Alternative Vision
Teiichi Aoyama,
Musashi Institute of Technology
Komichi Ikeda
Environmental Research Institute Inc.

The future challenges – waste problems
・Government try to promote charging(a tax) on the MSW
treatment. But the effect for waste reduction is not sure.
• Government try to promote incineration of plastic waste andto popularize the thermal recycling(thermal recovery). But
the risk of plastic incineration has not assessed enough.
• Government revised the law that allows the MSW to beincinerated together with the industrial waste. But the riskof mix incineration was not considered.(Increase of Risk)• How about the hazardous substances (especially heavy
metals, PAHs etc.) exhausted from the melting furnaces(Pyrolysis) increasing all over Japan?
• The incineration condition is to be worsened as mentioned,
but the monitoring of the emission source (incinerators) will
not be done sufficiently.

The future challenges – waste policies• To make systems for stronger and effective EPR• To revise Law for Promotion of Sorted Collection andRecycling of Containers and Packaging.
• To make the laws related to recycling function
effectively.
• Not to increase the financial burden of Municipality
caused by waste collection and resource recycling.
• To power up the autonomy of each Municipality as
an independent local government and to promote own
waste policies. Not dependent too much on subsidies.
• To ascertain that a slag from melting furnaces and ecocement facilities can be used effectually.

The Sufficient Observation of Dioxins＜observation and regulation of emission source＞● It’s important to strengthen observation andregulation of hazardous substances from emission gas.

Concerning the measurement of dioxins in emission gas,
government had introduced an easier method into theofficial method.
But, hereafter, it is feared to increase the dioxin
concentration in the air because of incineration(melting) of plastics and industrial waste.
The measurement of hazardous substances in emission
should de done more precisely (continuously) and fairly.

Distinctions between the waste policy of[H] type and [ L] type■Type of Japan・Ｈ■ ◆Type of ZW countries：Ｌ◆① Centralized（Municipalities depend on
central government and theirsubsidy）②High Technology-Uncertainty, complex③High Cost
-Unfair bidding (huddle)④High Impact
for environment &for financial①Local：（Municipalities do not dependon central government andtheir subsidy）②Low Tech
Create employments andPromote eco-businesses③Low Cost④Low Impact
Source:Environmental Research Institute, Tokyo

Minister of Environment
Participation in Ministerial Conference inthe 3R Initiative. (2005.4.28-30)

From Nova Scotia,Canada,
Mr.G.Mclellan (the Departmentof Environment and Labor,
NS )took part in this conference
and gave presentation.
Source:Environmental Research Institute, Tokyo

Discussion withparticipants from othercountries.
↓The right side：a member ofthe Ministry of Environment inThailand.

↑From the left side..
America：Mr.Scot in charge ofindustrial waste recycle
Japan：Komichi Ikeda (ERI)
Canada ：Mr.Gerard from Nova Scotia
Canada :Mr.Mike(the Ministry of
Natural Resources)
Canada :Mr.Dennis(the Ministry ofEnvironment)
Source:Environmental Research Institute, Tokyo

Teiichi Speak out in Japanese Congress!
Information Disclosure Law
Environmental Assessment Law
Auto Mobile Emission Control Law
Dioxin Control Law
PRTR Law………………….

source:Environmental Research Institute, Tokyo

Teiichi Propose many
Ordinances to Nagano
Prefecture Council as a
Governor’s Advisor
・Solid Waste Management Ordinance・Global Warming related Ordinance・Strategic Env. Assessment Ordinancesource:Environmental Research Institute, Tokyo

National Law for Sustainable Society
Building a Sound Material-Cycle Society
Fundamental Law for Establishing a Sound Material-Cycle Society (2000)
Fundamental Plan for Establishing a Sound Material-Cycle Society(2000-2010)

National Laws for Sustainable Society
Building a Sound Material-Cycle Society●Law for the Promotion of Effective Utilization of Resources (2001.4〜）●Container and Packaging Recycling Law (1997.4〜now under amendment)<Responsibility> Consumer : Cooperating with sorted collection
Municipalities : Conducting sorted collection
Businesses : Recycling<Target recyclable container and packages>
Glass bottles → Glass bottles
PET bottles →PET bottles, Plastic or paper containers & packages
Steel/Aluminum cans → Steel/Aluminum cans
Paper Cartons → Paper cartons and cardboard box● Home Appliance Recycling Law (2001.4〜）<Target home appliances> air-conditioner, TV, refrigerator, washing machine
Person discharging the these appliances has to pay the fees for collection and recycling.
More than 11,000,000 units were collected in FY2003● Construction Material Recycling Law(2000.5〜）
A person who order C&D has to submit the notification to the Pref.Government
C&D wastes should be sorted properly before treatment.

National Laws for Sustainable Society● Food Recycling Law(2001.5〜）● End-of-Life Vehicle Recycling Law (2005.1〜）● Law on Promoting Green Purchasing(2001.4〜）

The Action Plan for Greening Government Operation
Promotion of Procurement of Eco-Friendly Goods and Services by State and Other Entities

First Zero Waste Town in Japanin Kamikatsu Town

source:Environmental Research Institute, Tokyo

First Zero Waste
Town in Japan
35 Separationin Kamikatsu Town

source:Environmental Research Institute, TokyoEffectiveness of
Zero Waste in Kamikatsu
Waste Treatment Cost became smaller!!

Cost of Waste Collection and treatment(Tax payed/year/per capita)●Average Local Municipalities
Canada Dollar 200〜300●Kamikatsu Town
Canada Dollar 130〜150●Nova Scotia, Canada
Canada Dollar 80〜90

source:Environmental Research Institute, Tokyo横石社長が開発した高齢者専用パソコンで自分の売り上げ順位をみるおばあちゃん

仕事ぶりに田中知事もびっくり！

Source:Environmental Research Institute, Tokyo