Abstract
It has been common knowledge that establishing the sustainable recycling-based society requires the three Rs, i.e., reduce, reuse and recycle. The three Rs are being widely recognized year by year, however, people hardly translate them into action yet. Innovation of technologies and systems about the three Rs and information sharing among stakeholders in the three Rs are effective against such problems, which can be implemented by information systems with information technologies. Before the utilization, it is necessary to fully understand business processes and improvements in the processes of the three Rs. Therefore, we have surveyed problems in the three Rs business and the current status of IT utilization. In this paper, we describe our research results of interviews to four companies of the Rs business. Moreover, we discuss prospects of IT utilization in the three Rs based on the results.
