Abstract
Municipal governments are required to build low-carbon, recycling-oriented waste treatment systems in order to fulfill their obligation to dispose of the municipal solid waste being produced as a “by-product of human activities.”
This report presents the current overall picture of municipal solid waste treatment and related issues in Japan. The paper presents a novel Recyclable Landfill System (hereinafter referred to as ‘RL System’. The RL System incorporates sustainable environmental technology to reuse landfill sites as desalination facilities that can convert incineration ash into a basic ingredient in cement. In this system, the landfill space can be utilized repeatedly as a resource circulation base, and can also thereby contribute to the realization of low-carbon society.
