Establishment of the Regional 3R (Reduce, Reuse and Recycle) Forum in Asia," and established the "Regional 3R Forum in Asia". The participants decided to facilitate high-level policy dialogues on the 3R issues, facilitate improved dialogue and cooperation with countries for implementing 3R projects, provide a strategic and knowledge platform for sharing information, and provide a platform to develop networks of stakeholders under the Regional 3R Forum in Asia.

The second meeting was held in October 2010 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It was co-hosted by the Ministry of the Environment, the Ministry of Housing and Local Government, Malaysia, and the United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD) and its theme was “3Rs for Green Economy and Sound Material-Cycle Society.” At the meeting. a Chair’s Summary was compiled, and Singapore expressed their decision to host the third Forum in Singapore in 2011, which the participants welcomed.

In June 2009, the Minister of the Environment and the Minister of Environmental Protection of the People's Republic of China concluded a memorandum to support cooperative for creating environmentally-friendly cities by developing cyclical economic industries in Kawasaki City and Shenyang City, China. As part of the cooperation projects, the Ministry of the Environment and the Ministry of Environmental Protection of the People's Republic of China held workshops in March 2010 in China's Beijing and Shenyang cities, with the objective of sharing information on policies and technologies for creating a sound material-cycle society.

In addition, in order to appropriately conduct the export and import of the hazardous waste based on the Basel Convention, the Ministry of the Environment has been conducting activities for the “Asian Network for Prevention of Illegal Trans-boundary Movement of Hazardous Wastes” each fiscal year since 2004, and holding workshops and making various efforts have to promote dialogues with the people in charge of the Basel Convention in each of the countries in Asia and relevant international organizations in order to strengthen collaboration among them all. Also, in order to manage e-waste and computer waste in an environmentally appropriatemanner in the Asian-Pacific region, Japan is also providing financial and technological support for the projects implemented by countries under the Basel Convention.

The United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD), which evaluates the state of implementation of “Agenda 21,” adopted at the 1992 Earth Summit. based on their annual plans, is taking up “waste management” as their theme for the two-year period from 2010 through 2011. In order to actively contribute to CSD discussions, the Ministry of the Environment organized a “CSD-19 Intersessional Conference on Building Partnerships for Moving towards Zero Waste” in Tokyo in February 2011, attended by experts on waste management and the 3Rs from around the world. The results of that conference were contributed to the 19th session of the CSD meeting held in May 2011.

Figure 3-11 Industrial Waste Treatment Flow (FY 2008)

Figures in square brackets are figures from FY 2007.

* Figures in each item are rounded off; therefore the total may not equal the breakdowns.