Moot Points of the New Recycling Law and a Propasal for a Framework Comprehensive Law pertaining to Waste Management and Recycling in Japan.

• Otsuka Tadashi

  Professor of Law at Gakushuin University

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 廃棄物問題をめぐる法制度の展開　　リサイクルの総合法制の方向
• リサイクル ノ ソウゴウ ホウセイ ノ ホウコウ

Abstract

Recently two new laws regarding recycling have been enacted by the Japanese Diet. One pertains to containers and packaging. The other pertains to electrical appliances. Under these laws businesses are held responsible for recycling the waste products they produced. With regards to electric appliances, businesses are also under obligation to recuperate them for a charge.<BR>In order to avoid the division between waste management and recycling, which hinders the development of recycling strategies, a framework comprehensive law for developing waste management and recycling programs should be established. It is important that the idea of“Extended Producer Responsibility”be introduced within this law. Producers should be held responsible for the recuperation of waste products without a charge, when it is supposed that they are the ones who lay the burden on the environment vis a vis the quality or the quantity of their waste products.

Journal

• Waste Management Research

  Waste Management Research 9 (6), 413-423, 1998

  Japan Society of Material Cycles and Waste Management

Keywords

• extended producer responsibility
• Polluter-Pays-Principle
• recycling
• waste disposal
• take-lack-system

Details

• CRID: 1390282679392975744
• NII Article ID: 10002831951
• NII Book ID: AN10414674
• DOI: 10.3985/wmr.9.413
• ISSN: 18838960
• ISSN: 09170855
• NDL BIB ID: 4579874
• Web Site: https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R000000004-I4579874
• Text Lang: ja
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