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| Acronym for Pollutant Release and Transfer Register. PRTR is used by companies to keep track of the movement of chemical substances that may pollute the environment from factories and others to the atmosphere, water, or soil as releases or transfers included in waste. These movements are reported to the government, which makes a list from the data, and makes it public. As a result, the information can be widely shared and used to control risks associated with chemical substances. |
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| Recycling society |
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| A social system that minimizes the environmental impact
by minimizing the total waste volume disposed in the environment by preventing
the occurrence of waste, reusing products, and recycling resources as much as
possible. It has attracted attention as the form of a new society that can achieve
sustainable development and a replacement of the mass-consumption society. The
Basic Law for Establishing a Recycling-based Society (promulgated in 2000) provides
for what is necessary to establish such a society and gives first priority to
the restraining of the generation of waste, reusing and recycling waste, and to
the proper disposal of final waste. |
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