Abstract
We have investigated the actual conditions of separate collection of plastic packaging waste. And we carried out the questionnaire survey about the introduction of separate collection of plastic packaging waste for the separate collection of plastic packaging waste is enforced area and not enforced area. As the result the amount of foreign matter getting into the plastic packaging waste has increased from the beginning of introduction of the separate collection of plastic packaging waste. Factors of this foreign matter getting into plastic packaging waste are; 1) there are difficult products of the separate for the inhabitant, 2) there are problems which cannot be expected before the introduction of separate collection, 3) the inhabitant cannot seem to understand the effect by separate collection. Therefore, to reduce the foreign matters, we have to carry out the following actions; 1) Intensive promotion of information disclosure to the inhabitants, 2) Labeling all materials used for plastic packaging, 3) Establishment of management system about waste collection stations to the inhabitants.
