4.20

Question 1

Social benefits

Answer 1

Residents are well trained in sorting separating their waste
Street litter is it at a minimum as residentsa take care of rubbish
5.5 million vending machines in Japan and bins nearby help sort their recycle

Question 2

Social Negatives

Answer 2

Time spent in sorting waste
Incoporated in the primary school systems, hard for tourists to understand

Question 3

Environmental Benefits

Answer 3

-Due to high degree of separation of materils, help reuse and recycling
-reduced waste by 60% in. the last 10 years
-Currently 71% of aluminum cans are recycled

Question 4

Environmental Costs

Answer 4

Large amount of waste being produced due to large population
Landfill and incineration sites still being used
9% of plastic is recycled domestically, rest is shipped to other markets.
Exacerbated by COVID-19 which increased hygienic packaging ending up landfill
Only 24.3% of PET bottles are currently recycled
Large amounts of plastic is still incerated

Question 5

Economic Benefits

Answer 5

-TMG has made commitment to Tokyo residents to ensure that waste management is affordable by improving organisational efficiency and supporting new technology
-Heat and energy generated from the waate incineration plants

Question 6

Economic costs

Answer 6

Tax is paid by citizens to fund the recycling and waste disposal
Cost for households to have designated bags range from 80 to 800yen