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| Ministry of Health and Welfare installed a standardizing committee seeking revision of Waste Disposal and Public Cleansing Law for near future. |
| YOKOHAMA CITY is willing to adopt charged collection system of all bulky waste and market waste since they see it effecient in reducing and recycling wastes. |
| NIKKA SUMIEITO acquired ISO 14001 as the 1st case in intermediate processing companies in Japan. They treat industrial waste into fuel and material of cement kiln. |
| NIHON kANKYO EISEI CENTER, SANGYO HAIKIBUTU SHORIJIGYO SHINKO ZAIDAN and SANGYO KANKYO KANRI KYOKAI held a conference on need of PCB proccessing institutions as discussion theme for citizens. |
| Environmental Agency starts for restriction of PCDDs emission. Industrial waste incinerators are also investigated under the restriction. |
| Ministry of Health and Welfare and Ministry of International Trade and Industry announced the total quantity of imposed reclamation of container waste on the basis of package and container waste recycle law. They in announcement also set the responsibility rate between enterprises. |
| On TESHIMA island incident the most famous case of illegal waste disposal in serious scale TAKAMATSU local court of justice presented a judgement. In this case the judgement is for island citizens and against waste management company. |
| CHIBA PREFACTURE enacts new regulation on soil pollution landfill penalty and others. This is for the purpose of prevention of pollution and accident by called "Surplus Soil Regulation". |
| SAITAMA PREFACTURE is to open its date on PCDDs reserch of municipal solid waste incinerators in this March. This time it ended sampling around Tokorozawa region. |
| KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KUBOTA TAKUMA and HITACHI ZOSEN contracted with European companies to receive technology license of Bio-Gas management plant for kitchen and organic waste. The bio-gas can be used for heating and electric generation etc. |
| Waste management and recycle department of MIT industry structural comittee on January 24 completed a report "Seeking for future counter-measure of waste management--Toward solution of industrial waste problem--". Actually, this is expected to be a basical guidepost of industrial waste management for the production sector and industry in Japan. |
| The Ministry of Health and Welfare on January 23 has reported a guidance on prevntion of PCDDs and PCDFs related to MSW(municipal solid waste) incineration. Target is 86% reduction within 5 years and 100% in 20 years in gas emission degree. |
| Japan bottles and packages recycle association(Nihon Yoki-Hoso Recycle Kyokai) by January 31 disclosed a name list covering domestic recyclers, and announced the specification on bidding to apply for. 85 enterprisers are of glass bottles recycling, and 147 are of PET bottles. Joint groups composed of registered recyclers and transporters are to be bed at each regional stock yard. |
| Japan Environment Association reconsiders its qualification standard on recycled blocks, tiles and others, relative 5 items. It is aiming at adaptability to ISO and Blue-Angel of Germany. |
| Central Environment Council of Environment Agency completed a mid-term report seeking appropriate ways of landfilling. As subject to examine information disclosure and licensing system of small scale landfills have been advised. |
| Japan bottles and packages recycle association(Nihon Yoki-Hoso Recycle Kyokai) on March 25 through 28 finished its bidding selection on enterprisers based on '97 recycle program. This fiscal year, bid is placed for 610 municipalities' stock yards. |
| The Ministry of Health and Welfare on February 13 submitted questions to its Living Environment Council about the partial revise of Waste Disposal and Public Cleansing Law. In early March a draft of revise, after reply report comes, is supposed to be submitted to the Diet. |