1. June １９、２０１４
Tokyo, Japan
Akemi 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 Household
Appliance 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

3. 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.
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4. The Background of C&P Law
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① Lack of waste disposal sites
② Increasing ration of C&P Waste in
municipal wasｔe
Volume ratio
papers
plasticmetal glass
Non C&P Wastes
38.4%
C&P Waste
61.7%
other
Weight ratio
paper plastic
glass
metal
other
Non C&P Waste
76.7%
C&P Waste
23.3%

5. 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&P
Waste

6. 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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7. Background of Japanese EPR style
1. Long History of Citizen’s sorting and collecting
household waste system, co-operating with
municipality.
2. ⇒Successful recycling system
3. ⇒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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9. Outcome of Japanese System
1. 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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12. 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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13. Toward a Future
Limited 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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14. 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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15. For More Effective Recycle
Business Entities approach to Citizen
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16. 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

17. Questions from Citizens
Is Plastic Mark equal to Recycle Mark?
Why could’nt we discard toys with the
packaging 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?

18. Reason for not acting environmental friendly
Green market + Study Group
2011
costly
Notknowthe
effectofthe
action
Nosanction
Notknowwhat
todo
Complicated
Noopportunity
Notfeelthe
meaningofthe
act
Other
s
Nobarrierfor
noaction

19. •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,

20. 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 materials
Consumer :A person who buys goods or uses services

21. 21Sharing Information is the Key for the Partnership
Government
Citizen
Information
Business

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