2015 Volume 26 Issue 5 Pages 335-340
The Partial Revision of Waste Management and Public Cleansing Act and the Basic Act on Disaster Control Measures, published and enacted in July 2015, were expected to be the driving force behind disaster waste measures pushed forward by the Ministry of the Environment. Aims of the revised Law include showing the successful directions that programs for disaster waste management are taking and creating agreement among those people concerned with and working on disaster waste disposal strategies.
In addition, principle objectives for revising the Law include a need to transform basic attitudes/perspectives regarding disaster waste measures, as a means of building a stronger legal framework and exhibiting this as a system, rather than revising the waste disposal treatment system substantially. The main legal points of significance for this revised law are : 1) System maintenance for disaster waste measures depending on the scale of the disaster ; 2) Expansion of the number of persons engaged and readjustment of their roles in handling disaster waste disposal treatment ; 3) Immobilization of a structure whereby a country acts on waste disposal treatment by itself ; and 4) Expansion of specific and detailed measures related to disaster waste treatment within disaster prevention legislation.
