Proposed Revision of Packaging Waste Recycling Act

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  • 容器包装リサイクル法の見直しについて
  • 容器包装リサイクル法の見直しについて : 実現可能性を踏まえた拡大生産者責任の適用を中心として
  • ヨウキ ホウソウ リサイクルホウ ノ ミナオシ ニ ツイテ : ジツゲン カノウセイ オ フマエタ カクダイ セイサンシャ セキニン ノ テキヨウ オ チュウシン ト シテ
  • —Application of the Extended Producer Responsibility and Feasibility of the Revision—
  • ――実現可能性を踏まえた拡大生産者責任の適用を中心として――

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This paper indicates the direction to be taken in order to cope with several main problems that remain with regard to the Packaging Waste Recycling Act. The paper also takes into consideration the Extended Producer Responsibility. Firstly, in order to promote reduction of packaging waste, decision-making criteria by the competent ministers must be improved and, as was done in Germany and France, the commission expenses of each enterprise must be calculated for re-merchandising, while also considering the environmental burden. Secondly, to reduce the number of free-riding enterprises, it is necessary to introduce a green-dot system for all packaging. This mark would indicate that the producer or distributor has paid the commission expenses for re-merchandising. Thirdly, in order to avoid duplication of tasks undertaken by municipalities and enterprises for sorting packaging waste, the tasks must be integrated and the enterprises should be required to carry out the integrated task work. Fourthly, the present system of financial contributions from enterprises to municipalities is not structurally sustainable and the total amount of contributions has decreased drastically. It is absolutely necessary at this time to amend the provision for the contribution system in the Act. Fifthly, to secure the effective use of resources, along with the reduction of environmental burden and the reduction of social costs, it is necessary to distinguish between the resources for material recycling and those for chemical recycling. Technologies for sorting waste must also be improved.

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