Building Sustainable Material-Cycle Society In Kitakyushu city City of Kitakyushu Environment Bureau Resource Circulation Division, Resource Circulation Department China Shanghai Kitakyushu Tokyo 500km 1000km Thailand Vietnam Philippines 2000km Malaysia Singapore Indonesia Area: 485 GDP: 3.5 trillion JPY (2005) Population: 985 thou. (as of Oct. 2008) Major Industries: steel, chemical, machinery, ceramics, IT industry
Inception of Modern Industry (1901) Steel industry Steel works Nippon Steel Development of large companies (~1920) Material industry Steel works Sumitomo S Metal Industries Ltd. Hitachi Metals Ltd. Ceramic industry Kurosaki Harima Corporation TOTO Plant Engineering ~1945 From Steel-related industry Mishima Kosan Co., Ltd. Okano Valve MFG. CO. Hamada Heavy Industries Ltd From Ceramic & chemical industries Takada Corporation Sankyu Inc. Machine and Metal Processing Industry 1945~ Mitsui High-tech Inc Nippon Magnetic Dressing Manifold development Zenrin Co., Ltd. (Map) Yaskawa Information Systems Corporation ICT Industry Central Yuni Medical and health care devices Shabondama Sekken Natural soap Local Assets Coal, Lime stones Ports Chemical industry Asahi Glass Company Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation Electronics Yaskawa Electric Corporation TOSHIBA Corporation Advancement of fundamental industry to State-of-the-art Technology Technology on -Pollution control -Saving energy Eco-Industries Nippon steel Co. Yahata Works YASKAWA A A Co. MITSUBISHI Chemical Co.
Stacks emitting smoke Dust-fall on roof-top AScrew Dissolved in the Bay Wastewater Discharged into the Dokai Bay
Citizens Partnership Industries Public Administration 1960s Today
Waste administration of Kitakyushu City (1) Kitakyushu City s view on the waste treatment (2) Waste collected by Kitakyushu City (3) Local Efforts for Recycling Domestic Garbage (4) Toward further reduction of the household- related waste (5) The latest situation and the challenges of Kitakyushu City (1) Kitakyushu City s view on the waste treatment Transition of the view Disposal-oriented oriented process (Before1993) Prompt and safe disposal of the discarded waste One-way structure where the citizens discard the waste and the city disposes it (Advancement in the amenity of everyday life) Recycling-oriented process (From 1993) Increase in the waste volume Diversification of waste materials (e.g. plastics) Increase in the throwaway products Introduction of the point of view of recycling materials Initiation of the sorted collection of cans and bottles (1993) Initiation of the sorted collection of PET bottles, initiation of the spot collection of cartons and white foam trays, and so on Environmentally-sound process (From 2000) Reducing, reusing and recycling waste and green purchasing (Purchasing and using recycled products)
Basic plan of the municipal waste treatment in Kitakyushu City Formulation in February, 2001 Basic philosophy: From the disposal-oriented oriented process to the environmentally-sound process Increase in the recycling rate : From 13% to 25% Development of comprehensive policies based on reducing, reusing and recycling waste including the purchase and use of recycled products (Green Purchasing) Planned implementation term: 10 years up to and including 2010 Basic view on the sorting and recycling of waste 1. Understandability for the citizens To refrain from classifying too precisely to sort 2. Establishment of the recycling technology, demand for the recycled products Materials would not be recycled without a recycling mechanism. 3. Efficiency including the cost performance To make maximum use of the private and citizens collection routes The cost for collection would increase along with the increase in the kinds to be sorted.
(2) Waste collected by Kitakyushu City Household-related waste (twice a week) (50-yen charge/45 liter bag) Garbage, waste paper, plastic products, etc. Bulky waste (once a month) (300-yen to 1000-yen charge) Furniture, bedclothes, etc. Plastic containers and packaging (once a week) (12-yen charge/25 liter bag) Cans, bottles and PET bottles (once a week) (12-yen charge/25 liter bag) Cartons, food trays, small metallic articles, fluorescent tubes (from time to time) (Into the collection boxes placed in the supermarkets etc. in the city) Brought-in waste (100-yen charge/10kg) Waste brought into the facilities of the city by enterprises or collection and transportation businesses (700-yen charge/100kg before October, 2004) Destination of Resources and Garbage
Flow of the household-related waste treatment From the collection and transportation to the incineration and final disposal Designated bags of household-related waste
Waste-collection point (Gomi station) A scene of collection of the household-related waste Refuse truck
Incineration Plants Shinmoji Incineration Plant Ttl Total amount of waste Incinerated tdat tthree plants in the city: 2,130t/d Utilizing excess heat for electric power generation: 192,000MWh / Y (FY2008) Revenue by Power Generation: 752million (FY2008) Final disposal of waste