Harumi Koizumi

Architects Regional Planners & Associates, Kyoto (Osaka Office)
General Manager, 1st Planning Division
(1-7-40 Shiromi, Chuo-ku, Osaka 540 Japan)

Abstract

A reduction plan for waste required includes not only waste disposal, but also management of production, distribution and consumption. But, for the planning of a waste management plan, there are still only few relations between consumption management sections and environmental education sections in government. For the planning of a waste reduction plan, it is necessary to build up relations among other sections within the government. The plan must also contain activities for businesses and citezens to become in volved with the reduction. In this article, we describe a position for a reduction plan in the municipal waste management plan from these points of view.

Key words: municipal waste reduction plan, household waste, products having the potential to be waste, firm waste, reduction activities