Target Rate of Recovered Paper Utilization for Fiscal 2005

Abstract

Japanese paper industry has long been making efforts to promote utilization of the recovered paper setting up a target from time to time. In 1995, for example, the industry planned to bring the rate up to 56 percents by the fiscal year 2000. Helped by the environmental awareness among the consumers and industry, the target was achieved in fiscal 1999, one year earier than had been anticipated. Now, the industry drew up a new plan to raise the rate up to 60 percent by the fiscal year 2005 on the assumption that necessary investment be made for the target.