The Japanese paper industry has accomplished development until today owing to the effective use of the recovered paper as the paper manufacture raw material and the technological development on paper recycling in Japan where resource is scarce.
The recovered paper urination rate is 59.6% in 2002 now. It is about twice of the urination rate 30% in the paper manufacture raw materials 40 years ago.
We come to the one more push to reach the target of the reutilization rate 60% in fiscal year 2005.
In several years especially, the recovery rate and the utilization rate is rising remarkably in Japan. is in the background that the improvement of national consideration has been advanced because of promotion of the decrease in weight of garbage and the introduction of the green purchase, etc. aiming construct the recycle base society. Moreover, the advancement of the recovered paper use technology cannot be missed.
On the other hand, China and Asian nations increase rapidly the import of the recovered paper from Japan along with the increase of the production of paper and the paperboard in the countries. Now, recovered paper is an international global trade raw material.
I had groped for the view in the future of the recovered paper use in Japan based on such a current state including the energy in the future and environmental problems such as the CO
2 reductions.
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