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ON THE WEB A simple and practical guide to household waste management: www.purdue.edu/dp/envirosoft/ housewaste/src/dispose.htm e-waste: www.ewaste.ch

Japanese household waste composition (Neyagawa case study)

in % of total weight

in % of total volume

100%

100%

Others

Others

Glass Garden waste Kitchen waste

Metals

Packaging share

50

50

Plastics

Paper

Packaging share

0

0

The plastic share of a Japanese garbage bin (Osaka case study)

RUSSIA

40°N

other disposable goods 0.1

carbonated beverage 0.8 fruit and vegetable juice 0.3

Pacific Ocean

disposable lighters 0.1 bags fromwater draining 0.3

CHINA

soy sauce 0.7 lactic drinks, coffee, tea 1.8 sports beverage and mineral water 1.1

JAPAN

plastic waste fromoffices 0.8

Neyagawa

NORTH KOREA

Tokyo

other cooking sauce 1.0 spices 0.7

Osaka

toothpaste 0.3

SOUTH KOREA

30°N

drugs and cosmetics 0.9 detergent 1.9 shampoo, hair conditioners 2.6

Household items 7.3

plastic bottles for food and beverage 6.4

other 0.4

140°E

130°E

plastic bottles for non- food 6.1

miscellaneous packaging (candy or

buffer material 0.7

tofu 0.9

cups 3.1

packaging net 0.2 packaging lace 0.7 container lid 0.3

egg containers 1.1

snacks) 6.8

other 8.6

large and middle sized package for food (rice bags etc.) 0.3 large and middle sized package for non-food (laundry come-outs etc.) 2.6

garbage bags 7.5

containers 8.9

boxes and trays for food 12.2

packaging trays 5.9

packaging 91.4

plastic package for non-food 1.7

boxes and trays non-food 0.6

plastic food package without printing (pickles etc.) 8.1

plastic wrap 6.6

plastic food packaging with printing (snacks, noodles) 8.3

plastic shopping bags

Household plastic waste composition in percentage of total plastic waste wet weight

large shopping sacks 0.5

Sources: Kohei Watanabe, Reference material provided for the talk " Waste and Sustainable Consumption ", Capability and Sustainability Centre, St Edmund's College Cambridge, March 2005; Association of Regional Planners and Architects, Detailed Sorting and Measuring of Household Waste , Kyoto 1998.

small supermarket bags 16.7

See also page 14.