Waste & Recycling
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Measures for COVID-19
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20.07.30 Q & A to Implement Countermeasures to the Novel Coronavirus Infectious Disease (COVID-19) in Waste Treatment and Management[PDF 3.8MB]
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20.06.23 For Medical Institutes and Staff Handling Medical Waste Novel Coronavirus-Related Waste[PDF 567KB]
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To Carefully Handle Waste from Temporary Lodging Facilities[PDF 444KB]
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For Waste Transporters[PDF 457KB]
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20.05.19 How to Dispose of Household Garbage: For Infection Prevention and Control Measures to the Novel Coronavirus[PDF 502KB]
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20.05.01 A Simple Aid to Prevent Spread and Infectionof COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019) at Home: Household Garbage Disposal[PDF 583KB]
Recycling
- 06.03.09 Cabinet Decision on a Bill Partially Amending the Law for the Promotion of Sorted Collection and Recycling of Containers and Packaging
- 05.10.27 Recycling of Specified Kinds of Home Appliances at Municipalities
- 05.10.27 Status of Illegal Dumping of Post-Consumer Use Home Appliances and Personal Computers during April to September 2004
- 05.09.15 Implementation Status of Sorted Collection and Recycling by Municipalities
- 05.09.07 Promotion of Recycling Discarded FRP Boats and Fire Extinguishers
- 05.05.27 Publication of Data on Recycling of Home Appliances by Electric Appliance Manufacturers
- 05.02.04 Status of Recycling Post-Consumer Use Personal Computers in Municipalities
- 04.08.25 Implementation Status of Sorted Collection and Recycling by Municipalities based on the Law for the Promotion of Sorted Collection and Recycling of Containers and Packaging
- 04.04.21 Current Status of the Law for the Recycling of Specified Kinds of Home Appliances (FY2003)
- 03.08.08 Enactment of Ministerial Ordinances for Partially Amending the Enforcement Regulations of the Law for the Recycling of End-of-Life Vehicles
- 03.05.12 Publication of Results to Date of Recycling of Home Appliances by Manufacturers of Electric Appliances
- 04.05.17 Publication of Data on Recycling of Home Appliances by Electric Appliance Manufacturers
- 03.04.18 Current Status of the Law for the Recycling of Specified Kinds of Home Appliances
- 03.08.06 Implementation Status of Sorted Collection and Recycling by Municipalities (2002) based on the Law for the Promotion of Sorted Collection and Recycling of Containers and Packaging
Waste Management
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17.05.19 Recommendations Concerning Promotion Measures of the Industrial Waste Management Industry (Summary)[PDF 839KB]
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15.04.13 Japan’s policy on the environmentally sound management of mercury wastes[PDF 398KB]
- 06.02.10 Efforts by Aerosol Manufacturers and Municipalities for the Promotion of Proper Treatment and Recycling of Waste Aerosol Products
- 06.01.20 Ehime Eco Town Program Approved
- 05.11.28 Asia-Pacific Regional Inception Workshop on the Environmentally Sound Management of Electronic and Electrical Wastes and the Second Workshop of the Asian Network for Prevention of Illegal Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Wastes Held
- 05.11.08 Survey on Illegal Dumping of Industrial Waste in FY 2004
- 05.11.08 State of Discharge and Treatment of Industrial Waste in FY 2003
- 05.11.04 State of Discharge and Treatment of Municipal Solid Waste in FY 2003
- 05.09.16 Yokkaichi Eco Town Program Approved
- 05.07.28 Osaka Eco Town Program Approved
- 05.05.26 Amendment of Basic Policy for Comprehensive and Systematic Promotion of Measures on Waste Reduction and Proper Waste Disposal
- 05.01.21 State of Discharge and Treatment of Municipal Solid Waste in FY 2002
- 05.01.21 State of Discharge and Treatment of Industrial Waste in FY 2002
- 04.10.27 Partial Amendment of the Enforcement Regulation of the Waste Management and Public Cleansing Law and the Ministerial Ordinance Stipulating Technical Standards for Final Landfill Site for Municipal Solid Waste and Industrial Waste
- 05.03.07 Enforcement Status of the Law for the Control of Export, Import and Others of?Specified Hazardous Wastes and Other Wastes
- 04.03.01 State of Generation and Treatment of Industrial Waste in FY 2001
- 04.03.01 State of Generation and Treatment of Municipal Solid Waste in FY 2001
- 03.11.28 Ministerial Ordinance Partially Amending the Enforcement Regulation of the Waste Management and Public Cleansing Law
- 03.10.02 Fundamental Policy for Promoting Removal of Environmental Problems Caused by Specified Industrial Wastes
- 03.10.02 Outline of the Fundamental Policy in accordance with the Specified Industrial Wastes Special Measures Law
- 03.02.13 Enactment of the Law on Special Measures Concerning Removal of Environmental Problems Caused by Specified Industrial Wastes
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Ministerial Ordinance Determining Engineering Standards Pertaining to Final Disposal Site for Municipal Solid Wastes and Final Disposal Site for Industrial Wastes[PDF 47KB]
- 04.11.16 Cabinet Ordinance Partially Amending the Enforcement Ordinance of the Waste Management and Public Cleansing Law
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Cabinet Order of Waste Management and Public Cleansing Law [PDF 142KB][PDF 136KB]
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Regulations of Waste Management and Public Cleansing Law[PDF 389KB]
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Basic Policy for Comprehensive and Systematic Promotion of Measures on Waste Reduction and Other Proper Waste Management [PDF 55KB][PDF 51KB]
- State of Japan’s Environment at a Glance: Wastes
- Standards for Verification
- Eco Town Program
- Waste Disposal and Recycling Measures
Illegal Dumping
- 06.02.15 Status of Improper Disposal of Sulfate Pitch in the First Half of FY 2005
- 06.01.23 State of PCB Waste in Storage under the PCB Special Measures Law
- 05.02.04 Status of Illegal Dumping of Post Consumer Use Home Appliances and Personal Computers during April to September 2004
- 04.08.06 Status on Illegal Dumping of Post-Consumer Use Home Appliances
- 04.06.14 Action Plan for Eradication of Illegal Dumping of Industrial Waste
- 04.04.28 Survey on Illegal Dumping of Industrial Waste in FY 2003
- 03.10.09 Waste Treatment Facilities Development Program
- Invitation of proposal concerning to PCB contaminated solid wastes treatment technologies
Transboundary Movement
Johkasou/Wastewater Treatment
- 05.08.22 FY 2004 Dissemination Status of Johkasoh, On-Site Treatment System of Domestic Effluent
- 05.08.22 FY 2004 Dissemination Status of Wastewater Treatment Facilities
- 04.08.20 FY 2003 Dissemination Status of Johkasoh
- 04.08.20 FY 2003 Dissemination Status of Wastewater Treatment Facilities
- 03.08.22 FY 2002 Dissemination Status of Wastewater Treatment Facilities
- 03.08.22 Dissemination Status of Johkasoh, On-site Treatment Systems for Domestic Wastewater
- Schematic Diagram of Total Pollutant Load Control System
Great East Japan Earthquake
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Progress on treatment of debris from the Great East Japan Earthquake (in coastal municipalities of the three most affected prefectures)(14.3.26up)[PDF 320KB]
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Progress on treatment of debris from the Great East Japan Earthquake (in coastal municipalities of the three most affected prefectures)(14.2.21up) [PDF 320KB]
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Progress on treatment of debris from the Great East Japan Earthquake (in coastal municipalities of the three most affected prefectures)(14.1.24up) [PDF 492KB]
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Progress on treatment of debris from the Great East Japan Earthquake (in coastal municipalities of the three most affected prefectures)(13.12.20up)[PDF 307KB]
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Progress on treatment of debris from the Great East Japan Earthquake (in coastal municipalities of the three most affected prefectures)(13.11.29up)[PDF 347KB]
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Progress on treatment of debris from the Great East Japan Earthquake (in coastal municipalities of the three most affected prefectures)(13.10.25up)[PDF 448KB]
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Progress on treatment of debris by the Great East Japan Earthquake (in coastal municipalities of the three most affected prefectures)(13.9.27up)[PDF 379KB]
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Progress on treatment of debris by the Great East Japan Earthquake (in coastal municipalities of the three most affected prefectures)(13.8.30up)[PDF 373KB]
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Progress on treatment of debris by the Great East Japan Earthquake（in coastal municipalities of the three most affected prefectures）(13.7.26up)[PDF 373KB]
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Progress on treatment of debris by the Great East Japan Earthquake (in coastal municipalities of the three most affected prefectures)(13.6.21up)[PDF 386KB]
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Progress on treatment of debris by the Great East Japan Earthquake（in coastal municipalities of the three most affected prefectures）(13.5.31up)[PDF 366KB]
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Progress on treatment of debris by the Great East Japan Earthquake（in coastal municipalities of the three most affected prefectures）(13.5.7up)[PDF 352KB]
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Progress on treatment of debris by the Great East Japan Earthquake（in coastal municipalities of the three most affected prefectures）(13.3.22up)[PDF 352KB]
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Progress on treatment of debris by the Great East Japan Earthquake (in coastal municipalities of the three most affected prefectures) (13.2.22up)[PDF 184KB]
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Treatment of debris in coastal municipalities of the three most affected prefectures by the Great East Japan Earthquake (13.1.25up) [PDF 669KB]
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Progress on treatment of debris in coastal municipalities from the three most affected prefectures by the Great East Japan Earthquake (12.12.14up)[PDF 281KB]
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Progress on treatment of debris in coastal municipalities from the three most affected prefectures by the Great East Japan Earthquake (12.11.16up)[PDF 271KB]
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Guidelines (Master Plan) for Disaster Waste Management after the Great East Japan Earthquake[PDF 234KB]
- Good Practice Cases of the disaster waste management after tsunami in Japan
3R Initiative
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