Kazuo Nakamura

Environmental Bureau, Kyoto Municipal Government
(Oike-agaru Nakagyo-ku Kyoto City, Japan 604-8571)

Abstract

Conventional waste control systems centered on incineration now face need for drastic change. This is necessary due to the demand for zero-emission of waste prompted by environmental issues such as global warming and the destruction of the ozone layer. It is reinforced by furthermore, the newly enacted laws such as those regarding the recycling of Containers and Packaging and the Air Pollution Control law (with as emphasis on dioxin control.) reinforce this necessity for change.

In the future municipal waste-control systems should provide complete recalculation that minimizes environmental burdens while maximizing resource recovery including energy derived from waste. It will be necessary for incineration ash to be recycled in order to prolong landfill life.

In our report on the trends in resource recovery technology, a case study of a combination of new waste-control technologies has been done. This was done as an environment of what would become of MSW intermediate processing systems after the full implementation of the Recycling Law of Containers and Packaging. The following article outlines this study.

Key words: recycling law of containers and packaging, dioxin regulation, recycling-type waste disposal system, reduction of disposal quantities and combination of new disposal systems