Resource Input
Existing
- Resource productivity
- Cyclical use rate at inlet
- Ratio of domestically-produced biomass resources to total natural resources input
- Per-capita consumption of natural resources in terms of primary
- Fundamental Plan for Establishing a Sound Material-Cycle Society (2003, 2008, 2013, 2018)
- Circular Economy Vision (1999, 2020)
- Basic Act for Establishing a Sound Material-Cycle Society (2001)
- Plastic Resource Circulation Strategy (2019)
- Roadmap for Bioplastics Introduction (2021)
- Act on Promoting Green Procurement (2001)
Resource Use
Existing
- Market size of reuse
- Market size of sharing (car sharing, etc.)
- Development of guidelines for product assessment (design for environment) by industries
- Establishment rate of life extension plans for individual facilities (individual facility plan)
- Implementation rate of specific 3R actions
Resource Circulation / Disposal
Existing
- Cyclical use rate at outlet
- Final disposal amount
- Per-capita waste generation per day
- Per-capita household waste generation per day
- Business waste generation
- Implementation rate of recycling of cyclical food resources
- Generation of household food loss
- Generation of commercial food loss
- Amount of illegal dumping
- Amount of waste treated improperly
- Number of illegal dumping cases
- Number of improper waste treatment cases
- Diffusion rate of electronic manifests
- Number of remaining sustainable years of municipal waste final disposal sites
- Number of remaining sustainable years of industrial waste final disposal sites
- Fundamental Plan for Establishing a Sound Material-Cycle Society (2003, 2008, 2013, 2018)
- Circular Economy Vision (1999, 2020)
- Basic Act for Establishing a Sound Material-Cycle Society (2001)
- Plastic Resource Circulation Strategy (2019)
- Waste Management and Public Cleansing Act (1971)
- Law for the Control of Export, Import and Others of Specified Hazardous Wastes and Other Wastes (1992)
- Law for Promotion of Effective Utilization of Resources (2001)
- Law for the Promotion of Sorted Collection and Recycling Containers and Packaging (Container and Packaging Recycling Law) (2000)
- Law for the Recycling of Specified Kinds of Home Appliances (Home Appliances Recycling Law) (2001)
- Law for Promotion of Recycling and Related Activities for Treatment of Cyclical Food Resources (Food Waste Recycling Law) (2001)
- Construction Material Recycling Law (2002)
- Law for the Recycling of End-of-Life Vehicles (End-of-life Vehicles Recycling Law) (2005)
- Act on Promotion of Recycling of Small Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (Small Home Appliance Recycling Law) (2012)
Environmental Impact In The Context Of Circular Economy / Resource Efficiency
Existing
- Emission of greenhouse gas from the waste sector
- Reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from other sectors through the utilization of waste as raw material and fuel as well as a source of power generation
- Average power generation efficiency of garbage incineration facilities constructed or improved during the specified period
- Area of forests for which specific forest management plans are formulated
Economic Impact In The Context Of Circular Economy / Resource Efficiency
Existing
- Resource productivity by industry (in terms of primary resources converted)
- Market size of business related to sound material-cycle society business
Other
Existing
- Number of local governments working on the formation of local recycling networks
- Ratio of local governments with a disaster waste management plan in place
- Number of nations with which a memorandum of understanding or other agreement on environmental cooperation (including that for resource circulation) is signed
- Number of projects of overseas expansion of waste management and recycling industries
- Ratio of research projects with the result of ex-post evaluation being S or A in the Environment Research and Technology Development Fund (ERTDF) program (sound material-cycle field)
- Reduction of waste generation and awareness for cyclical use and green purchase
