Abstract
To maintain sustainable development, that is, to create entire human activities for good quality of life, a social system, which minimize emission to be zero, should be established. To actualize such kind of social request, the research project “Zero Emissions Oriented Material Cycle Processes” supported by Monbusho (The Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture; Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas have been performed from 1996 to 2000. In this project, group A03, construction of a mathematical model describing material cycle and prediction/evaluation of regional zero emission, has been investigated as a methodology to actualize regional zero emission and evaluation. In order to establish regional zero emission, current material flow and utilization should be cleared, reduction potential of resource/energy consumption and pollution load should be analyzed with maintaining human and manufacturing activities, and zero emission oriented new material cycle process should be evaluated. It is desirable that total quality management of waste, citizen participant system, environmental law and economical effect should be further investigated for sustainable development of our life and societies.
