Estimation of the Current and Future Market Sizes and Workforce of Japan’s Green Businesses

Green business	Market size (100 million yen)	Workforce (persons)
2000 (*)	2010	2020	2000	2010	2020
A. Environmental pollution control	95,936	179,432	237,064	296,570	460,479	522,201
Manufacturing of equipment and materials for the prevention of pollution	20,030	54,606	73,168	27,785	61,501	68,684
1. Prevention of pollution	5,798	31,660	51,694	8,154	39,306	53,579
2. Treatment of effluent	7,297	14,627	14,728	9,607	13,562	9,696
3. Treatment of waste	6,514	7,037	5,329	8,751	6,676	3,646
4. Purification of soil and water (including groundwater)	95	855	855	124	785	551
5. Prevention of noise and vibration	94	100	100	168	122	88
6. Environmental measurement, analysis, and assessment	232	327	462	981	1,050	1,124
7. Other	-	-	-	-	-	-
Provision of services	39,513	87,841	126,911	238,989	374,439	433,406
8. Prevention of air pollution	-	-	-	-	-	-
9. Treatment of effluent	6,792	7,747	7,747	21,970	25,059	25,059
10. Treatment of waste	29,134	69,981	105,586	202,607	323,059	374,186
11. Purification of soil and water quality (including groundwater)	753	4,973	5,918	1,856	4,218	4,169
12. Prevention of noise and vibration	-	-	-	-	-	-
13. Environmental research and development	-	-	-	-	-	-
14. Environmental engineering	-	-	-	-	-	-
15. Analysis, data collection, measurement, and assessment	2,566	3,280	4,371	10,960	14,068	17,617
16. Education, training, and provision of information	218	1,341	2,303	1,264	5,548	8,894
17. Other	50	519	987	332	2,487	3,481
Construction, and installation of equipment	36,393	36,985	36,985	29,796	24,539	20,111
18. Equipment for the prevention of air pollution	625	0	0	817	0	0
19. Equipment for treating effluent	34,093	35,837	35,837	27,522	23,732	19,469
20. Facilities for treating waste	490	340	340	501	271	203
21. Equipment for purifying soil and water	-	-	-	-	-	-
22. Equipment for preventing noise and vibration	1,185	809	809	956	536	439
23. Equipment for environmental measurement, analysis, and assessment	-	-	-	-	-	-
24. Other	-	-	-	-	-	-
B. Environmental load reduction technologies and products (manufacturing of equipment and provision of technologies, materials, and services)	1,742	4,530	6,085	3,108	10,821	13,340
1. Environmental load reduction and resource conservation technologies and associated processes	83	1,380	2,677	552	6,762	9,667
2. Environmental load reduction and resource conservation products	1,659	3,150	3,408	2,556	4,059	3,673
C. Efficient use of resources (manufacturing of equipment, provision of technologies, materials, and services, construction, and installation of equipment)	201,765	288,304	340,613	468,917	648,043	700,898
1. Prevention of indoor air pollution	5,665	4,600	4,600	28,890	23,461	23,461
2. Water supply	475	945	1,250	1,040	2,329	2,439
3. Recycled materials	78,778	87,437	94,039	201,691	211,939	219,061
4. Facilities for renewable energy	1,634	9,293	9,293	5,799	30,449	28,581
5. Energy conservation and energy management	7,274	48,829	78,684	13,061	160,806	231,701
6. Sustainable agriculture and fisheries	-	-	-	-	-	-
7. Sustainable forestry	-	-	-	-	-	-
8. Prevention of natural disasters	-	-	-	-	-	-
9. Eco-tourism	-	-	-	-	-	-
10. Other (nature protection, ecological environment, biodiversity, etc.)	107,940	137,201	152,747	218,436	219,059	195,655
Total	299,444	472,266	583,762	768,595	1,119,343	1,236,439

Notes:

1. “-” indicates no data available.

2. Some figures under FY 2000 market size are not from the same fiscal year.

3. Some totals under market size may not add up due to rounding.

Source: Ministry of the Environment

Changes in the Number of Eco Mark Certified Products

Source: Compiled by the Ministry of the Environment based on information from the Japan Environment Association (Eco Mark Office)

Percentage of Eco-friendly Products to Total Sales Volume

n = number of companies responded

Note: Based on a questionnaire targeted to businesses that manufacture and market eco-friendly products in 15 major categories specified in the Law on Promoting Green Purchasing. The figure shows the percentage of sales of eco-friendly products to the total sales volume.

Source: Compiled by the Ministry of the Environment based on Results of the 7th Green Purchasing Survey, Green Purchasing Network Secretariat (Survey period: October–November, 2002)