Abstract
Increased attention has been paid to strengthen chemical management, while establishment of safety management of recycled products and resource management are needed. Materials have both of valuable and hazardous aspects, which call for integrated material management. We reviewed treatment options in 829 articles from 44 acts and discussed features of gate-checking, informational management (notification and traceability), and resource supply/use.
Gate-checking can be characterized mainly by three types of items to check: material characteristics, treatment methods, and information. Applicability of gate-checking to the post-consumer stages was lower and material management at these life-stages needs to be complemented by other treatment options. Management by notification is suitable to cases where regulatory flexibility is favorable and should not be applied alone to management of materials with high risks. Traceability can be categorized by its purposes into ‘value-added’ type and ‘avoidance of loss’ type. Distinctive treatment options in resource management, which do not fall in the other treatment options, were granting rights for resources, resource discovery/security, limitation of resource extraction, promotion of recycling, stock of resources, and optimized material use. Application of treatment options which are frequently applied in hazardous chemical management is expanding into the field of resource management recently.
