Waste Management Issues in Kawasaki City′s Environmental Education

—Towards a Global Environmentally-sound and Sustainable Material Cycle City—

Abstract

The author introduces administrative activities regarding environmental education and learning on the topic of waste management in Kawasaki City. Two items are described. The first is a book called Living and Wastes, which is a supplementary reader to be used in Social Studies classes at the primary school level. The second is School Waste-delivery Service, an environmental learning program that provides users a true-to-life, physical-sense experience of a virtual world that takes on the issue of waste management. The implementation of both of these activities aims at creating A Global Environmentally-sound and Sustainable Material Cycle City, a concept that is being held up as a principal concept in the basic plan of municipal waste management in Kawasaki City.