Host: Japan Society of Material Cycles and Waste Management
Name : The 32nd Annual Conference of Japan Society of Material Cycles and Waste Management
Number : 32
Location : [in Japanese]
Date : October 25, 2021 - October 27, 2021
Recently, smartphone waste separation applications have been introduced in some municipalities. This study surveys the situation of waste separation applications in all municipalities in the Tohoku and Kanto regions. This survey is based on the information available on each municipality’s website and application downloads from August to September 2020.
The following characteristics were observed: Tohoku is behind Kanto in introducing garbage separation applications, such as in the number of available residents and the average number of application functions; the average functions include the regular garbage collection date announcement, the search of the separation category for the garbage, garbage collection date change announcements.
Fukushima prefecture introduced the garbage separation application to cover all municipalities in April 2021. The application of this prefecture has the average function and a substantial number of available residents.
