symposium case 1 a. ori, experience from japan containers&packaging recycling law
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June 19、2014
Tokyo, JapanAkemi Ori
Kanto-Gakuin University
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The Basic Environment Law
Waste Management and Public Cleansing Law (Revised)
Law for Promotion of Effective Utilization of Resources (Organized)
Electric HouseholdAppliance Recycling Law
(Already enacted)
Food Recycling Law
(Newly enacted)
Construction Material Recycling Act
(Newly enacted)
End-of-life Vehicle Recycling Law
Container and Packaging Recycling
Law
(Already enacted)
Law on Promoting Green Purchasing
Small Home Appliance Recycling Law
The Basic Law for Establishing the Recycling – based Society
(basic framework law)
Japanese Recycling Law
Distinguished Features of C&P Waste (cc ELV,WEEE)
1. Short Life of Products(ELV 20ys, WEEE 10ys)
2. Simple design, limited influence on DfE
3. Compare to Industrial waste, less Volume
4. Many Stakeholders(Bottle Makers, Containers,
Disutributors, Recyclers, etc)
1. very close relation with citizen’s dairly life.3
The Background of C&P Law
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① Lack of waste disposal sites② Increasing ration of C&P Waste in
municipal waste
Volume ratiopapers
plastic metal glass
Non C&P Wastes38.4%
C&P Waste61.7%
other
Weight ratiopaper plastic
glass
metal
otherNon C&P Waste
76.7%
C&P Waste23.3%
Japanese System : Stakeholders Co-operation
5(出典:環境省HP)
Extended Producer
Responsibility
Business Entities:Recycling
Consumer:Reducion of C&P Waste ,Sorted Discarding
Municipalities:Sorted collection of C&P waste
‘Transferred C&PWaste
The Characteristics of Japanese C&P Recycling system
1. Collecting household waste (not including office waste)⇒High quality sorting
2. Municipality Voluntary Participation System(Each municipality need to decide whether to make plan or not)
3. Range covered is wide⇒All the C&P Waste is collected.
4. Recycle Marks are sealed 8 materials.But the collecting system differes depending on municipality.
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Background of Japanese EPR style1. Long History of Citizen’s sorting and collecting
household waste system, co-operating withmunicipality.
2. ⇒Successful recycling system3. ⇒How Business entity could co-operate to this
System?4. ⇒Japanese EPR(so called Partial EPR System)⇓5. Sorting high quality materials,Co-operating system
with those involved.
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Outcome of Japanese System1. Business entity’s effort to make lighter weight and
thinner.2. Increasing the amount of recycling.3. Increasing participation of municipalities and having
successful municipality collection system led to gain the community power,also high quality materials.
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Ongoing Problems
1. Increasing recycle , not reducing. Need to change the behavior. But How?
2. Increasing recycle but not cost efficiency, high cost in recycling.
3. Because of high quality recycled material,items are exported to foreign countries.
4. A gap exists among stakeholders.
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Toward a FutureLimited capacity in DfE, so what is Next?⇒Need to change the behavior by information sharing⇓Who could give the information which could lead environmental friendly purchasing ?Who could give the forum for communication?Who could change the behavior?
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What should be Consider?How to strengthen partnership!Sharing Information!Shared responsibility needs Common Goal!(EPR is policy tool not the goal itself)Talking about recycle efficiency ,with citizen’s work-load. Citizens also need incentive. What?⇒Visualice the outcome of their acts.
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For More Effective RecycleBusiness Entities approach to Citizen
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3Rリーダー交流会川口市版成にむけた市民参加型ワークショップ
Questions from CitizensIs Plastic Mark equal to Recycle Mark?Why could’nt we discard toys with thepackaging Waste?Why could’nt we discard cleaning bag?Why is garbage collection system different in each municipality?How much we should clean the dirty?Why do we have to take off the bottle Cap?
Reason for not acting environmental friendly
Green market + Study Group2011
costly
Not know
the effect of the action
No sanction
Not know
what
to do
Complicated
No opportunity
Not feel the
meaning of the
act
Other
s No barrier for
no action
•To state clearly that an EPR policy cannot be designed appropriately by considering producers’ roles and responsibility only.
•Information provision and informative producer responsibility plays a key role,
How to Change the Consumer’s behavior?
イラスト:京エコロジーセンターHP・ハイムーンの漫画ギャラリー/石川県立大学高月紘教授 作
From Consumer to Sustainability Citizen
Consumption :The act of using energy, food or materialsConsumer :A person who buys goods or uses services
21Sharing Information is the Key for the Partnership
Government
Citizen
Information
Business
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