The increase in final disposal volume was due to the fact that foreign governments had to ban the import of waste plastics, which necessitated final disposal of some of the waste plastics of Group companies.
Reduce the volume of construction by-products, recycle resources, and achieve a final disposal rate of 3.0% or less Reduce the final disposal rate(excluding construction sludge, general waste, and waste requiring special management) to 4.0% or less 3.5%.
Production plants operated by Tokyo Gas and its subsidiaries will maintain zero emissions(defined as a final disposal rate of less than 0.1%) until FY2020 through the reduction, reuse, and recycling of industrial waste.
The Otsuka group aims to help create a recycling-oriented society. By curbing waste generation and promoting recycling, the group strives to attain final disposal amounts close to zero in its effort to achieve zero emissions.
Hiroshi Tasaka, representative of the SophiaBank think tank, is known for his social commentary and entrepreneurial activities, but he is an expert who has studied the final disposal of radioactive waste for 20 years.
In 2010, the recycling rate of the filter cake generated in the sugar refining process will be 50% and the final disposal volume reduction rate will be 50%.
The management process for generated wastes is generally classified into collection and transportation, intermediate treatment(treatments such as incineration, fragment, and recycling), and final disposaldisposal by landfill and ocean dumping.
Increases in the amount of final disposal since fiscal 2014 have been due to ongoing temporary circumstances, including waste generated in conjunction with a business reorganization, and the occurrence of waste catalyst and surplus soil.
But these technologies have unsolved issues in terms of ensuring safety and securing sites for final disposal and storage. They cannot escape from the disadvantage of high costs either.
In fiscal 2018, we achieved a reduction in the amount of waste generated, but the final waste disposal rate was 0.59% and we did not achieve zero emissions.
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