Automobile Recycling Law is ready for complete implementation
aiming at 95% recycling rate
Era of the great competition is coming for the automobile recycling
industry
Ready to go: “Japan model” is about to start with the recycling
system on the nation’s largest scale
Heated competition: Competition between shredding companies and nonferrous
metal businesses heightens over used vehicles and shredded scraps
Inevitable reorganization: Survival strategies by auto scrapping businesses
include development of original techniques and securing of customer trust
Businesses in the spotlight: Big powers set their target on the new market
- NKK Bars and Shapes Co., Ltd. / Seinan Corporation / Sanomaruka Corporation
Introduction to the Automobile Recycling Law: the Law at a glance
Cover Story 2
Trends and possible measures of the Kyoto Protocol
Earn emission rights through overseas businesses
Report
Stationary Fuel Cell
Fuel cells are to generate electricity at 400 households by 2005; Full
dissemination can produce power worth 12.5 units of nuclear power generators
Technology Frontline
Products
[Surface-conduction electron-emitter display: SED] a new system that
realizes energy-saving and high resolution at the same time
Trend
[Fuel cell for mobile devices] Hitachi Ltd. and Toshiba Corporation
aim at commercialization in 2005
Elements
[Easy-to-disassemble screws] Improvements in costs and durability facilitate
commercialization
Technological people
[Naoto Ando, Professor, Graduate School of the University of Tokyo]
Construction materials that are made from waste lumbers and thinned
wood
“Honor students” in recycling
[Used consumer electronics] New usages are found as blast furnace reducing
agents and recycled materials for new products
Technology News Clips
Learn about environmental laws
Easy-to-understand Environmental Law
[Accounting and tax systems that hinder recycling practices - part 2]
Isolation of Japan’s environmental policies stands out
Environmental Laws Q & A
Can the “Landscape Law” preserve the landscape in town?
This Month’s Environmental Law
While Russia ratifies the Kyoto Protocol, the Japanese Ministry of the
Environment unveils the specifics of the environmental tax system
Taro Kono’s Report from the Diet
The attitude of the Ministry of the Environment is questioned while
the “trinity reform” and the environmental taxes are discussed
Trend and News
Niigata-Chuetsu Great Earthquake
While the estimated cost for waste disposal from the disaster exceeds
2 billion yen, waste disposal businesses and local governments move
to build a cooperative scheme
ISO14001
The new version of ISO14001 will be issued with an 18-month long transitional
period
Global warming
Interview with the president of the Royal Society: “The number
of victims from global warming is higher than that from terrorist attacks”
Gas emission regulations
Reasons for the sympathy for Mitsui & Co., Ltd. on the DPF scandal
Environmental tax
Introduction in 2005 seems almost impossible with the backlash provoked
even from the supporters
Low-pollution vehicles
Nissan Diesel Motor Co., Ltd. leads the emission gas measures for trucks
with “urea,” aiming to set the standards for the industry
Environmental education
Privatization of “seishonen-no-ie” (“camping houses
for the youngsters”) may provoke “the big ban of nature
schooling”
CSR Frontline
Shiseido Co., Ltd. promotes gender equality by introducing CSR targets
in the annual plan
In order to guarantee the contents of sustainability reports, effective
use of quality assurance standards is critical
ECO Interview
Kesuke Takeuchi of Takeuchi Environmental Recycling Institute: “The
auto scrapping industry is going through a major reorganization due
to the Automobile Recycling Law
ECO Column
Kankan Gakugaku (Active Argument over Environmental Issues)
Yoko Aoki, editor-in-chief of Cafeglobe.com
Takuro Morinaga’s Eco Lifestyle
Chinese environmental problems are threats for the entire world
Fieldwork Japan
A large-scale wind turbine factory starts operation in Nagasaki Prefecture
Report
Vice-Rector Itaru Yasui’s “Eco Michelin”
PET bottles
Achieve the Top Sales with Eco Products!
Shinohara Shoten K.K. / Precut members for housing construction
Inside-Out
[Digging up waste from landfills - part 1] Isn’t
there any blind spot in the idea to regenerate old landfills?
WorldWatch Institute
Conflicts between mega NGOs and indigenous people are a warning sign
to the nature conservation plans ignoring perspectives of local residents
ECO Seminar
How to make the best use of ISO
[Efforts by NEC part 1] Changing of the environmental management units
from factories to business lines is achieving good results in product
development
New Environmental Study
[Conditions to realize environmental economy - part 3] Specific measures
must be presented by both public and private sectors
Quick Guide to Environmental Key Words
Eco-Efficiency
Learn from Environmental Reports of Companies Overseas
SABMiller plc (UK) - part 1
World Trend
From UK
Emission trading market is ready for active operation with the forthcoming
effectuation of the Kyoto Protocol
From USA
Movement for banning of and charging for plastic shopping bags heightens
while environmental pollution and accidents increase
From Germany
How to make good use of new and innovative technologies for sustainable
development
From China
Promotion of renewable energy invokes demands for electricity generation
by wind power and other new energy sources
Nikkei BP EcoManagement Forum
[ECOgraph]
In the recycling business, the “challenges against the common
sense” is the tool to pave the way
