SIGINIFICANCES OF THE COST-EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS IN ESTABLISHING RECYCLING SYSTEM OF SMALL HOME APPLIANCES

Abstract

 Act on promotion of recycling of small waste electrical and electronic equipment was in force on April 1, 2013 after an intense debate on its necessity or type of recycling system. Stakeholders' anxiety that they have to shoulder excessive burdens was actualized as the debates. The cost-effectiveness analyses played a big role to clinch the debates. The purpose of this paper is to reveal what kind of significances the cost-effectiveness analyses have as factor to justify the necessity of recycling implication and its system, and how the framework of the recycling system is influenced by the results of cost-effectiveness analyses. Suggestions that the benefit incidence table is used for the role-sharing of recycling system's stakeholders are also revealed.