Table 5-1 Waste generation: sectors and countries

(Unit: thousand tons)

Country	Year	Agriculture and forestry	Mining and quarrying	Manufacturing	Energy manufacturing	Waterworks	Construction	Others	Municipal waste	Total
Canada	2004	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	13,380	—
Mexico	2006	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	36,090	—
USA	2005	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	222,860	—
Japan	2001	90,430	13,770	122,880	6,970	8,310	76,150	3,860	54,930	455,180
South Korea	2004	—	—	38,330	—	—	54,200	—	18,250	110,780
Australia	2002	—	—	9,470	—	—	13,740	—	8,900	32,380
New Zealand	1999	150	—	800	—	—	800	—	1,540	3,290
Austria	2004	—	—	—	—	1,910	28,600	18,900	4,590	54,000
Belgium	2002	1,150	120	13,650	850	200	10,490	6,300	4,750	36,360
Czech	2005	460	650	6,040	2,310	650	9,110	2,770	2,950	24,940
Denmark	2005	—	—	1,850	1,080	820	5,270	1,850	3,340	14,210
Finland	2004	860	23,820	15,710	1,570	510	20,840	100	2,370	65,790
France	2004	—	—	90,000	—	960	—	—	33,780	128,610
Germany	2004	—	50,450	53,010	—	—	187,480	—	48,430	339,370
Greece	2003	—	—	—	—	—	5,000	—	4,710	—
Hungary	2004	—	13,080	5,200	3,330	—	1,740	2,050	4,590	29,990
Iceland	2004	50	0	50	0	0	20	230	150	490
Ireland	2004	60,170	4,050	5,300	290	60	2,680	—	3,000	57,160
Italy	2004	440	900	37,780	2,800	13,550	46,460	5,530	31,150	138,620
Luxembourg	2004	—	50	730	0	130	6,980	90	310	8,300
Holland	2004	2,390	90	16,900	1,430	170	24,000	6,150	10,160	61,290
Norway	2005	160	190	3,800	40	—	1,500	2,260	1,840	9,790
Poland	2005	—	39,620	58,440	19,840	3,280	240	2,740	9,350	133,960
Portugal	2002	—	3,630	8,980	320	50	—	110	4,620	17,710
Slovakia	2004	4,490	—	8,680	—	260	1,690	—	1,400	16,590
Spain	2004	—	21,780	28,510	5,940	—	—	9,510	27,590	—
Sweden	2004	—	58,640	29,470	1,250	920	11,270	—	4,170	105,710
Switzerland	2004	—	—	1,130	—	210	11,900	—	4,910	18,140
Turkey	2004	—	—	17,500	13,890	3,240	—	—	29,740	64,350
UK	2002	540	96,390	45,000	6,180	1,390	109,000	30,320	36,120	323,430

Source: OECD

establishment of a Sound Material-cycle Society in Beijing and Shenyang in March 2010.

### C. Environmentally sound management of hazardous wastes

In order to implement proper regulation on the trans-boundary movements of hazardous wastes, etc., the activities of the “Asian Network for Prevention of Illegal Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Wastes” led by the Ministry of the Environment have been expanded and efforts to promote dialogues and strengthen partnerships between the officials responsible for the Basel Convention, customs officials and relevant international organizations have been implemented. In addition, in order to carry out environmentally-sound management of E-waste and end-of-life computers in Asia-Pacific region, Japan financially and technically has been contributing to implement national and regional projects advanced by each country under the Basel Convention.

### D. Cooperation with the United Nations

UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) which evaluates the implementation status of “Agenda 21” adopted by 1992 Earth Summit deals with “waste management” as one of subjects for two years from 2010 to 2011. In order to actively contribute to the discussions of CSD, the Ministry of the Environment held a meeting of “International Consultative Meeting on Expanding Waste Management Services in Developing Countries” with experts in worldwide waste management and 3Rs in Tokyo in March 2010 and the results were input to the 18th CSD Meeting held in May 2010.

### E. Other efforts

Projects concerning material flow and resource productivity implemented by OECD are regarded as significant, and discussions are held in a proactive manner. Support is also provided for the “International Panel for Sustainable Resource Management” established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in 2007 aiming at the implementation of scientific assessment on the influence of natural resource utilization on the environment, from the viewpoint of promoting the 3Rs Initiative.

The latest data since 1998 on the amount of wastes generated by each country collected by OECD are shown in Table 5-1 (Data on the amount of wastes generated by each of the OECD member countries).