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| SAITAMA Pref., on May 20, decided to install technical guidelines on industrialwastes incinerators to be enforced from July, 1 1997. This covers all types of licensed incinerators that they are newly constructed or revised. |
| On June 10 revision of Waste Disposal and Public Cleansing Law was approved in the Diet. The content of revision was proposed totally following draft with 8 incidental resolutions that meet, ‡@Recycle Authorize System, ‡Amore penalty, ‡Bestablishment of Moderate Proccessing Center to prevent illegal dumping ‡Ccompulsory manifest‡Dothers. |
| WADEX 97, Waste Disposal Exhibition, of OSAKA was held on June 11 through 14 at INTEX OSAKA(Osaka city) by NIPPO CO., LTD. The number of visitors of municipals, civils disposal companies and machinery-material manufacturers reached 55312, and is the largest ever before by additional 10000 to that of WADEX 96. WADEX 97 is the 3rd since its beginning. |
| Because of happenings of arsenic-, cadmium- polluted gypsum boards, on June 13, Ministry of Health and Welfare noticed those who are engaged in waste magement on handling with gypsum board wastes from demolition. Specified makers' boards are regulated to only controlled landfill sites. The makers are supposed to recover the polluted boards. |
| TAIHEI KOSAN(Tokyo), on July 2, took ISO14001. This is the first case in Japan at private landfill company's site and will attract people's note to develop the model case in industrial waste management. TAIHEI KOSAN was established in 1971 and now has landfill site of capacity of aprx. 1,900,000 cubic meters. |
| In reply to the proposal of PCDDs regulation from Central Environment Council, Ministry of Health and Welfare on July 8 reported on regulation details of waste incinerators for PCDDs reduction. The report leads technical specification to control PCDDs smoke within 0.1-5 ng/N m3 at new incinerators and 1-10ng/N m3 at present ones and pointed the neccessity to improve standard of regulated incinerators. |
| On July 15 CHIBA Pref. proclaimed "Surplus Soil Regulation" that controls management of surplus and dredge soil, and tightens polluted soil for safety. Larger than 3000‡u site will be regulated, and Prefectural Governor is to have right to request companies' environment report and to make on-the-spot inspection. |
| Ministry of Education, on July 23, announced "abandonment of incinerating in schools" to those who concerns elementary, junior high and high schools with regard to PCDDs control. The ministry will request schools to sort as many kinds wastes as possible and to change food waste into compost instead of incinerating or to contract with management company. |
| Ministry of International Trade and Industry(MITI) started a special promotional law of new energy use since June 30, and this came to permit RDF and other waste related fuel for the law. |
| Ministry of Health and Welfare lately installed a special PCDDs countermeasures team. This can totally do with PCDDs problem from emission control to human body pollution. |
| An amusement park, UNIVERSAL STUDIO JAPAN of Osaka scheduled to open in 2001 disclosed the fact that there is a previous landfill where SUMITOMO METAL INDUSTRY constructed for self-disposal. This case will be the first in Japan as the industry-purpose big project. |
| In east part of Japan, recent market of wood waste chips is showing unbalance of demand and supply. While some mills are lacking chips other companies still holds quantity in large-scale stock yards. |
| JETRO(Japan External Trade Organization) introduced 97's program of "Local to Local Industry Exchange". The environment related business of new plans and continued ones counted 6 cases in the program. This promotes co-business between foreign enterprises and Japanese ones, and actually there is a successful case between NAGASAKI Pref. and German companies in waste management business. |
| Revision of Waste Diposal and Public Cleansing Law and the Air Pollution Control Law was approved on August 26, and on August 29, was proclaimed. As the most strict standard, smoke will be regulated under 0.1ng/N m3 and incinerating tem-perature smoke cool down temperature and others were also fixed. |
| CLEAN JAPAN CENTER(CJC) completed a reserch report of "96 waste water and sludge recycle policy of food mills". This is subsidized by Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and Fisheries and presents some cases of management cost. |
| HITACHI SEISAKUSHO and DSD(Germany) agreed with co-business on plastic recycle of household waste. Package waste recycle law of Japan is to include all kinds of plastic for recycling and this agreement means to take more shares in recycle market after 2000 for these 2 companies. |
| Ministry of Health and Welfare requested J\931,220,000 for 98's budget of industrial waste management, and the amount is 4.1% up to 97's. Environment Agency also requested 98's budget of J\83,797,000,000, and the cost ratio for PCDDs control policy out of total budget is increasing. |
| Recently Ministry of Health and Welfare presented report on 94's household waste and industrial waste. The total amount of industrial waste in 94 was 405,000,000 tons and household one was 50,540,000 tons that are both slightly up to the previous ones. |
| On September 1, SANYU PLANT SERVICE(Kanagawa) signed a treaty with ECO Industrial Environmental Engineering on waste control technology. ECO is the Largest waste management enterprise in Singapore. |
| Major construction company KUMAGAI GUMI on October1 announced acquisition of ISO14001 at Yokohama branch, and it plans to adopt ISO to all branches within 1998. In construction industry not only FUJITA and SUMITOMO RINGYO but KUMAGAIGUMI is the 3rd case of taking ISO so recently "ISO14001 boom" is about to present in this industry. |
| Ministry of Health and Welfare will present a official report on some topics of waste management on the end of October or within November. The report proposes some revision on standards of landfill environment assessment stock rules, special toxic waste and others on the basis of prior revision of Waste Diposal and Public Cleansing Law. |
| Ministry of Construction on October7 submitted a report "97 Recycle Promotion Plan" having goal of 80% construction waste recycle in 2000. This covers both public and private cases. |
| NKK announced that total amount of plastic waste had reached 20000 tons for thermal recycling as reducing agent since its beginning in October 1996. At present, it contracts with more than 100 companies to receive plastic. |
| Waste Times of Nippo Co. td. learned through questionares that centralization of waste management and incinerating has influence on the field of food waste, and it tends to change into less compostizing and more RDF or incinerating at larger scale institution. |
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