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DRINKS CONTAINERS/
JAPAN
source: www.metropolis.japantoday.
com/tokyofooddrinksarchive349/329/
tokyofooddrinksinc.htm
www.japan.com/living/
recycling/aluminum3.php
www.foodproductiondaily.com/
news/news-NG.asp?n=30362-
aluminium-bottling
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Japan leads the world in recycling drinks packaging* with…
| glass | 90% | | steel cans | 87% | | aluminum cans | 82% | | PET bottles | 53% |
An approach to a ‘recycling-oriented society’ has begun toward building a ‘sustainable society’…- this social move, of course, has much to do with packaging, which has close interaction with people's lives. The Fundamental Law for Promotion of Recycling-oriented Society now has a number of supplementary laws enacted, thus requiring people of this country to review their life style;
- according to Japanese officials, PET recycling has grown rapidly in Japan since 1997 when PET bottles and cans became subject to mandatory recycling (Receptacle Packaging Recycle Law). Started in 2000, a new recycling law forced six times more recycling and reuse of this plastic packaging waste (up from 20,000 tons to 120,000 tons/year);
- steel cans are a model product when it comes to recycling. In 2004, the Japanese recycling rate for steel cans was 87%, which surpassed the government's 85% guideline, set by the Industrial Structure Council. This recycling rate is high even byworld standards. For example, Japan's steel can recycling rate was 85.2% in 2001, while Germany's was 78% and the United States' was only 58.5%. In the same year, the recycling rates for glass bottles and aluminum cans surpassed 80%, and according to the above-mentioned law standards, for PET bottles 45% (the target in 2004 is 50%).
* Japanscan Food Industry Bulletin, Review of the year 2004.
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