development since FY 2014 on loading systems for liquid hydrogen in collaboration with the Cabinet Office.

## 4 Promotion of Global Warming Countermeasures (Adaptation measures)

In order to comprehensively and systematically promote initiatives that are consistently backed by the entire government in response to the various consequences of climate change, the first national plan for adaptation to the impact of climate change was adopted by Cabinet decision in November 2015.

As the role ascribed to adaptation measures put forth by the MLIT, which has jurisdiction over the maintenance of national land and other areas and which is in charge of the safe and secure development of national land and regions, is considerable, the MLIT climate change adaptation plan, which summarizes adaptation measures to be implemented by the MLIT, was formulated and publicly released on the same day as the adaptation plan put forth by the government.

While the MLIT has proactively promoted measures for dealing with river water flooding, inland water flooding, sediment-related disasters, storm surges, droughts, and other water-related disasters as part of adaptation measures taken to date, adaptation measures that are comprehensive in both structural and non-structural terms shall be studied and deployed based on the formulation of the MLIT climate change adaptation plan.

## Section 2 Promoting the creation of a recycling society

## 1 Advancing recycling in construction

Construction waste accounts for approximately 20% of all industrial waste, and 20% of final disposed amount. Suppression of the generation of construction waste, and recycling and reuse of those waste are major tasks. In FY 2012, approximately 73 million tons of construction waste was generated nationwide. The recycling/reduction rate stood at 96.0 percent, which is higher than it was for other industrial sectors. Despite such positive results, certain issues will need to be addressed at this point in time, including an increase in the amount of construction by-products generated by maintenance and renovation work required to prop up aging social infrastructure and by construction work relating to the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games and an increase in the amount of construction-generated soil derived from large-scale tunneling projects.

Sewage sludge also accounts for 20% of all industrial waste, reaching approximately 77 million tons in FY 2013. We are working on recycling and reduction of sewage sludge.

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Source) Prepared by the MLIT from "Status on Production and Disposal of Industrial Waste" (FY2013 results) of the Ministry of Environment

Amount of Industrial Waste by Industry Sector and Recycle Rate of Construction By-products

Subject materials	Index	2005 Performance	2008 Performance	2012 Performance
Asphalt, concrete clusters	Recycle rate (%)	98.6	98.4	99.5
Concrete clusters	98.1	97.3	99.3
Construction generated wood	Recycling and reduction rate (%)	90.7	89.4	94.4
Construction sludge	74.5	85.1	85.0
Construction mixed waste	Produced amount (ten thousand tons)	293	267 (9% decrease in comparison to 2005)	280 (5% decrease compared to 2005)
Total construction waste	Recycling and reduction rate (%)	92.2	93.7	96.0
Construction generated soil	Efficient utilization rate (%)	80.1	78.6	88.3

*Reduction refers to reducing the amount of waste through incineration, dehydration, or other processes. Source) MLIT “2012 Construction By-products Status Survey”

## (1) Advancing recycling in construction

Based on the “Construction Material Recycling Act (Construction Recycling Law)”, we are working to enforce proper measures through a simultaneous patrol throughout Japan.

In the “Construction Recycling Promotion Measures Subcommittee” that have been formed in both the Environment Committee of the Panel of Infrastructure Development and the Environment Committee of the Transport System Section of the Council for Transport Policy, the relevant parties involved in construction recycling put together the “Measures related to the Promotion of Construction Recycling”, a recommendation to promote mid-term objectives for the recycling