Host: Japan Society of Material Cycles and Waste Management
Name : The 30th Annual Conference of Japan Society of Material Cycles and Waste Management
Number : 30
Location : [in Japanese]
Date : September 19, 2019 - September 21, 2019
According to high toxicity, mercury applications have been reduced and it will raise a large concern about environmentally safe disposal of unused mercury. In Japan, mercury has been known well as a hazardous element owing to Minamata disease. Therefore, mercury immobilization facilities and final disposal landfill sites might be regarded NIMBY and it will be greatly difficult to build them for mercury management in terms of public acceptance. If Japanese citizens have a strongly negative perception of mercury, it makes mercury management, in particular mercury final disposal, more and more difficult. In this context, this study quantitatively measured the perception of mercury that Japanese citizens have with employing pairwise comparison method.
