About the Effect for Quantity of the Refuse which Charging Fees for Collection in Chichibu large region.

Abstract

We analyzed an example of charging fees for garbage collection in nine local governments of Chichibu district of Saitama in this study. Effects by enforcement of charging are different by a local government. There were many local governments where quantity of refuse continued decreasing for three years from the year when they carried out charging, but there was totally no effect in two local governments. In the local governments where quantity of refuse did not decrease, there was characteristic that they had little refuse discharges per one. In addition, quantity of refuse increased later for four years when they carried out charging in all local governments. We thought that the refuse which inhabitants took out increased so that collection of garbage rate was cheap.