Abstract
According to the statistics made in fiscal 1970, 84. 69 million people, equivalent to 82. 5% of the total population of 103. 72million are benefitited by the municipal services of refuse disposal.
In the services of wastes disposal 76% of the total quantity of refuse is handled directly by the municipal personnel (those employed by municipalities).
As the direction of refuse treatment in our country, utilization of landfilling to the full extent shall be taken up as the final disposal after intermediate processing. The incineration processing is one of the most important methods and shall be further improved. Again, highspeed compost processing has been conducted as the means of resource recycling, but as the demand for compost is rather low, its share is decreasing.
Due to the Oil Crisis last year, however, it seems to have been more important for our country to reuse wastes than ever.
