Abstract
Human activity relies on the economics. As Japan has little resources, especially oil resources, so energy price has an influence on the society and the industrial world in Japan. Japanese standard of life has become higher by producing a lot of goods, apparatus, vehicles, furniture, and so on. But many goods are disposed after utilization, and the waste gives an great impact on the environment.
In this paper, trilateral relations of energy price, general consumption and waste generation are mentioned. When the energy price become higher, the waste generation is decreased. That reasons are, (1) human activities are restrained, (2) gross fixed capital formation is decreased, (3) comsumption of service sectors (i.e. little waste generation sectors) are increased. For the purpose of to reduce the waste and to improve the standard of life, we would better provide social infrastructure.
