Abstract
The electronic manifest system was enacted in Japan according to an amendment of the Waste Management and Public Cleansing Law in June 1997. In December 1998, it was implemented in order to prevent illegal dumping and to procure the appropriate disposal of industrial waste. The system is seen as effective in that it complies with the new law, assures transparency of data, and helps to reduce the burden of paperwork and user costs. As a result, the number of users and manifest registrations have increased steadily each year, with recent shares of electronic manifest achieving ratings of 19% in FY 2009 and 23% in March 2010. The system has been revised three times and a new system, which was implemented in May 2010, has introduced a web-access system conjunction using the current EDI system. Although Japan implemented the electronic manifest system with the aim of leading the rest world in this area, several other countries have also successfully implemented systems like that of Japan. This paper describes the various situations tackling of the implementation of the system in the USA, Korea, and Taiwan.
