Establishment of Industrial Waste Tax and the Current Status after its Enforcement

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  • Nagasaki Takayuki
    Waste Management Team, Environmental Protection Department of Mie Prefectural Government

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  • 産業廃棄物税　　産業廃棄物税の創設と施行後の状況
  • サンギョウ ハイキブツ ゼイ ノ ソウセツ ト シコウ ゴ ノ ジョウキョウ

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Against the background of century of environment and decentralization, Mie prefecture established“Industrial waste tax”aiming at solving severe problems of industrial waste. This is the first prefectural discretionary earmarked tax.<BR>The tax has been set to 1, 000 Yen per ton of waste and is charged directly to the discharging enterprises emphasizing the direct responsibility of the discharger.<BR>Before the ordinance came to force in April 2002, the total amount of waste disposal in Mie prefecture reduced considerably presumably because of waste reduction effort of the discharger enterprises. This may have been influenced by the announcement of the tax system and also by the waste reduction program started even before the enactment of the ordinance.<BR>We consider this new tax system as a measure towards a recycling-based society. Optimal combination of this economic instrument with command and control methods like regulation and guidance and social methods like voluntary information disclosure by enterprises so as to produce an overall synergetic effect will be investigated by us.

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  • Waste Management Research

    Waste Management Research 14 (4), 202-208, 2003

    Japan Society of Material Cycles and Waste Management

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