Abstract
At present, private finance initiative (PFI) to the waste management business has been promoted as a national policy, but it has not applied smoothly to industrial and municipal waste management facilities. This study aims to clarify the problems in the trend of the waste management policy and the present PFI schemes through the questionnaire survey to municipality (public sector) and private companies (private sector). As a result, it became clear that a lot of person in charge of the municipality do not expect of PFI as a tool for improvement of management in spite of their feeling necessary to introduce private sector's vitality into the waste management bushiness. In addition, a problem of the present PFI policy is not a policy for inhabitant's standard because private sector values economical effect too much than social effect in comparing with the opinion of private companies.
