Contents

Preface

Expectations on Organic Resource Waste Recycling System
(Comprehensive Sludge Recycling Plant) ----Tadayuki Morishita 321

Special Issues: Recycling of Organic Waste

The Current Situation of Bio-recycling in Japan and Obstacles to Its Reconstruction----Masaaki Naito and Takasei Kusube 324

Introduction of a New Law: "Food Waste Reduction and Recycling Promotion Law" ----Futoshi Takanashi 332

Technologies for Resource Recovery from Bio-wastes--Methane Recovery by Anaerobic Digestion------Kiyoshi Kawamura 344

Recycling System for Garbage Discharged from Business Activities in Sapporo City----Takeshi Fujisawa 355

Report

Can Environmental Science Group Devise Liable Works? --Through a role-play for the problem of environmental hormones------Masaki Inui, Daisuke Kato, Hisashi Setta, Satoru Tanabe, Kenji Nagata, Satoru Murakami and Kentarou Morita 366

Report

A Study of Public Opinion Concerning Municipal Policy of Sorted Waste Collection and Waste Reduction----Ryoko Yanagibori and Kinko Koyano 378