Host: Japan Society of Material Cycles and Waste Management
In the recent year, there is the trend of municipal
solid waste (MSW) decreasing in many local governments. Some of the reasons of
this trend are due to changes in socioeconomic
factor such as decreasing in population number and economic stagnation and positive impact factor of
3R – reduce, reuse, recycle; promotion. However, it is
difficult to explain the reason of MSW decreasing through decoupling the effects
from each factor. It is required for
local government to make planning of treatment facility from long time prospect
of waste discards. In this study, we conduct waste characterization
test to analyze the relationship between consumption and waste discards for
targeted Okayama City, and develop a model for projecting future waste discards
based on a scenario of economic stagnation or recycling promotion.
