Preliminary study for effect evaluation of awareness and dissemination projects to reduce domestic waste -Text analysis on administrative plans-

Abstract

Awareness and dissemination projects for reducing domestic waste are implemented in various ways mainly by local governments in Japan. However there has been no study on comparative analysis of all the projects about those direct effect on the waste reduction or indirect effect by promoting other policies such as waste collection fees. The final goal of this research is to conduct such analysis on all the projects. For its preliminary study we tried text analysis on administrative plans for reducing domestic waste by 14 cities, which were selected based on the population and the waste volume. It was illustrated from the result that there were a wide variety of projects in the cities which have implemented the project of the waste collection fees. Those cities might try to gain more satisfaction of their residents against the waste collection fees, which are accompanied by economic burden. In addition, it was characterized that the cities with low waste volume were likely to focus on the projects to delegate dissemination of waste reducing actions to cooperative local residents. Because these knowledge were gained from the text-analysis, it was expected to be effective for achieving our final goal.