The Japan Containers and Packaging Recycling Association

JCPRA INDEX

Statistics

1.Number of contracting business entities and volume of requested recycling

	2000		2001		2002		2003		2004
	Number of business entities	Volume of recycling (tons)	Number of business entities	Volume of recycling (tons)	Number of business entities	Volume of recycling (tons)	Number of business entities	Volume of recycling (tons)	Number of business entities	Volume of recycling (tons)
Total	59,449		62,057		63,595		67,196		69,648
Glass bottles	3,803	375,245	3,901	416,262	3,863	450,959	3,883	492,146	3,878	531,692
Colorless Amber Other Colors	3,208 1,722 1,548	184,713 92,992 97,540	3,337 1,798 1,552	205,579 116,760 93,923	3,325 1,707 1,508	216,254 139,364 95,341	3,350 1,714 1,431	216,751 157,127 118,268	3,288 1,776 1,467	225,281 158,375 148,036
PET bottles	962	96,584	1,088	196,256	1,087	230,684	1,377	236,203	1,311	253,396
Paper	41,206	47,815	45,262	90,044	45,878	105,820	47,281	56,203	47,927	63,982
Plastics	56,944	151,470	59,609	256,428	61,067	311,801	64,861	441,559	67,291	546,635
	2005		2006		2007		2008		2009
	Number of business entities	Volume of recycling (tons)	Number of business entities	Volume of recycling (tons)	Number of business entities	Volume of recycling (tons)	Number of business entities	Volume of recycling (tons)	Number of business entities	Volume of recycling (tons)
Total	70,540		70,831		71,409		71,329		72,014	1,541,439
Glass bottles	3,868	544,092	3,755	356,476	3,715	351,915	3,688	377,539	3,547	396,018
Colorless Amber Other Colors	3,265 1,786 1,449	239,224 143,613 161,255	3,177 1,719 1,381	132,721 105,369 118,386	3,145 1,667 1,349	131,666 107,754 112,495	3,132 1,639 1,315	155,078 113,982 108,478	3,020 1,577 1,260	155,076 133,560 107,383
PET bottles	1,352	255,019	1,256	298,523	1,292	272,850	1,353	283,417	1,353	257,906
Paper	48,630	72,580	48,378	41,749	52,597	56,364	52,519	32,064	52,902	33,934
Plastics	68,122	658,282	68,483	670,482	69,117	802,036	69,201	863,547	69,976	853,581
	2010
	Number of business entities	Volume of recycling (tons)
Total	73,557	1,661,776
Glass bottles	3,479	404,265
Colorless Amber Other Colors	2,967 1,538 1,220	165,913 137,345 101,006
PET bottles	1,340	248,932
Paper	53,928	38,001
Plastics	71,666	970,578

2.Recycling unit costs

	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
	Recycling unit cost (yen/kg)	Recycling unit cost (yen/kg)	Recycling unit cost (yen/kg)	Recycling unit cost (yen/kg)	Recycling unit cost (yen/kg)
Glass bottles: Colorless Amber Other Colors	4.151 7.682 8.096	4.0 7.7 9.1	3.6 7.8 9.1	3.0 5.7 8.6	2.8 4.8 8.0
PET bottles	88.825	83.8	75.1	64.0	48.0
Paper	58.636	58.6	42.0	25.2	19.2
Plastics	105.000	105.0	82.0	76.0	73.0
	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
	Recycling unit cost (yen/kg)	Recycling unit cost (yen/kg)	Recycling unit cost (yen/kg)	Recycling unit cost (yen/kg)	Recycling unit cost (yen/kg)
Glass bottles: Colorless Amber Other Colors	2.6 4.8 6.4	3.9 4.8 7.1	3.8 5.2 5.8	3.3 4.9 6.7	4.1 5.5 9.2
PET bottles	31.2	9.1	1.8	1.8	1.7
Paper	12.6	20.4	12.5	15.5	13.3
Plastics	80.0	89.1	85.8	75.1	65.7
	2010	2011
	Recycling unit cost (yen/kg)	Recycling unit cost (yen/kg)
Glass bottles: Colorless Amber Other Colors	3.8 5.3 9.5	4.2 5.6 8.9
PET bottles	4.2	3.6
Paper	16.0	13.0
Plastics	53.2	52.0

*Business entities pay the Recycling Fee (= Estimated Amount of Output x Calculation Coefficient x Recycling Unit Cost)

3.Payment unit costs

	2008	2009	2010
	Payment unit costs (yen/kg)	Payment unit costs (yen/kg)	Payment unit costs (yen/kg)
Glass bottles: Colorless Amber Other Colors	0 0 0	0 0 0	0 0 0
PET bottles	1.3	0.6	1.5
Paper	1.9	0.9	1.3
Plastics	10.6	11.1	10.3

4.Number of municipalities with contract and volume of taking-back

	2000		2001		2002		2003		2004
	Number of municipalities	Volume of taking-back (tons)	Number of municipalities	Volume of taking-back (tons)	Number of municipalities	Volume of taking-back (tons)	Number of municipalities	Volume of taking-back (tons)	Number of municipalities	Volume of taking-back (tons)
Total	2,086		2,354		2,474		2,633		2,616
Glass bottles	1,430	280,878	1,683	325,344	1,780	339,039	1,903	340,646	1,888	344,446
Colorless Amber Other Colors	1,091 1,201 1,341	79,836 111,199 89,843	1,365 1,470 1,585	97,100 129,892 98,352	1,433 1,504 1,669	102,788 130,311 105,940	1,580 1,631 1,811	109,086 130,274 101,285	1,555 1,605 1,800	109,932 129,539 104,975
PET bottles	1,707	96,652	2,042	131,027	2,186	153,860	2,348	173,875	2,315	191,726
Paper	83	11,243	131	21,685	143	24,687	243	30,652	250	28,111
Plastics	435	67,080	673	168,681	815	259,669	1,222	368,005	1,317	446,912
	2005		2006		2007		2008		2009
	Number of municipalities	Volume of taking-back (tons)	Number of municipalities	Volume of taking-back (tons)	Number of municipalities	Volume of taking-back (tons)	Number of municipalities	Volume of taking-back (tons)	Number of municipalities	Volume of taking-back (tons)
Total	1,771		1,581		1,571		1,580		1,582
Glass bottles	1,327	336,029	1,228	339,106	1,230	333,373	1,224	332,109	1,243	333,462
Colorless Amber Other Colors	1,038 1,078 1,279	103,132 123,707 109,190	916 975 1,183	104,474 121,548 113,084	913 969 1,195	101,460 119,210 112,703	921 983 1,184	100,432 118,946 112,731	928 989 1,195	102,510 118,878 112,075
PET bottles	1,352	169,917	1,082	140,416	1,082	140,013	1,137	153,732	1,211	188,783
Paper	183	27,477	165	28,618	154	27,860	148	26,814	144	25,554
Plastics	980	528,528	957	548,839	988	581,340	1,017	604,486	1,028	617,151
	2010
	Number of municipalities	Volume of taking-back (tons)
Total	1,547
Glass bottles	1,212	339,990
Colorless Amber Other Colors	908 951 1,175	107,147 120,838 112,004
PET bottles	1,186	194,205
Paper	147	28,410
Plastics	1,033	635,398

5.Number of recyclers

	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
Glass bottles	87	101	114	121	104
PET bottles	42	51	56	58	59
Paper	21	22	31	43	47
Plastics	41	65	86	79	74
	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Glass bottles	85	78	79	75	67
PET bottles	48	46	50	49	51
Paper	46	41	37	46	39
Plastics	84	75	92	82	85
	2010	2011
Glass bottles	62	60
PET bottles	52	52
Paper	47	41
Plastics	79	74

6.Use of recycled products

	2000		2001		2002		2003		2004
	Sales volume (tons)	Percentage	Sales volume (tons)	Percentage	Sales volume (tons)	Percentage	Sales volume (tons)	Percentage	Sales volume (tons)	Percentage
Glass bottles	264,688		304,764		317,817		317,766		320,478
Colorless	73,804	100.0%	90,333	100.0%	94,341	100.0%	104,672	100.0%	101,566	100.0%
From bottle to bottle Others	70,388 3,416	95.4% 4.6%	87,429 2,904	96.8% 3.2%	76,436 17,905	81.0% 19.0%	95,006 9,666	90.8% 9.2%	91,877 9,689	90.5% 9.5%
Amber	103,701	100.0%	121,696	100.0%	123,439	100.0%	119,042	100.0%	121,707	100.0%
From bottle to bottle Others	84,297 19,404	81.3% 18.7%	87,469 34,227	71.9% 28.1%	84,885 38,554	68.8% 31.2%	107,044 11,998	89.9% 10.1%	109,756 11,951	90.2% 9.8%
Other Colors	87,183	100.0%	92,734	100.0%	100,037	100.0%	94,051	100.0%	97,205	100.0%
From bottle to bottle Others	7,303 79,880	8.4% 91.6%	5,185 87,549	5.6% 94.4%	5,332 94,705	5.3% 94.7%	15,069 78,982	16.0% 84.0%	19,816 77,389	20.4% 79.6%
PET bottles	68,575	100.0%	94,912	100.0%	112,485	100.0%	124,298	100.0%	147,698	100.0%
Textiles Plastic sheet Bottles Molded products Others	38,317 23,407 326 3,802 2,723	55.9% 34.1% 0.5% 5.5% 4.0%	48,659 37,510 381 5,330 3,032	51.3% 39.5% 0.4% 5.6% 3.2%	58,940 45,632 606 5,314 1,993	52.4% 40.5% 0.6% 4.7% 1.8%	57,445 50,021 11,312 3,944 1,576	46.2% 40.2% 9.1% 3.2% 1.3%	63,554 54,589 23,351 4,239 1,965	43.0% 37.0% 15.8% 2.9% 1.3%
Paper	10,230	100.0%	20,793	100.0%	24,358	100.0%	29,881	100.0%	27,163	100.0%
Materials Materials for other than paper Refuse Derived Fuel	4,546 2,566 3,118	44.4% 25.1% 30.5%	15,301 1,196 4,295	73.6% 5.7% 20.7%	20,284 157 3,917	83.3% 0.7% 16.0%	26,969 15 2,897	90.3% 0.0% 9.7%	25,053 203 1,907	92.2% 0.8% 7.0%
Plastics	43,830	100.0%	118,470	100.0%	180,162	100.0%	256,150	100.0%	309,537	100.0%
Plastics	43,296	98.8%	117,598	99.3%	179,238	99.5%	255,128	99.6%	308,514	99.7%
Molding materials Pyrolytic oil Reducing agent in blast furnaces Chemical raw materials for the coke oven Synthetic gas	4,882 3,348 24,656 9,771 638	11.1% 7.6% 56.3% 22.3% 1.5%	9,246 7,886 42,306 50,631 7,529	7.8% 6.7% 35.7% 42.7% 6.4%	23,426 6,828 46,621 91,175 11,188	13.0% 3.8% 25.9% 50.6% 6.2%	41,626 5,847 58,811 120,767 28,076	16.2% 2.3% 23.0% 47.1% 11.0%	56,035 6,426 55,870 137,980 52,203	18.1% 2.1% 18.0% 44.6% 16.9%
Tray	533	1.2%	872	0.7%	924	0.5%	1,022	0.4%	1,023	0.3%
Molding materials Pyrolytic oil	520 13	1.2% 0.0%	777 95	0.7% 0.0%	921 3	0.5% 0.0%	1,022 0	0.4% ( - )	1,023 0	0.3% ( - )
	2005		2006		2007		2008		2009
	Sales volume (tons)	Percentage	Sales volume (tons)	Percentage	Sales volume (tons)	Percentage	Sales volume (tons)	Percentage	Sales volume (tons)	Percentage
Glass bottles	321,990		324,967		316,288		308,853		317,165
Colorless	96,514	100.0%	102,046	100.0%	95,172	100.0%	93,832	100.0%	96,731	100.0%
From bottle to bottle Others	93,472 3,042	96.8% 3.2%	99,488 2,558	97.5% 2.5%	91,783 3,389	96.4% 3.6%	91,505 2,327	97.5% 2.5%	94,742 1,989	97.9% 2.1%
Amber	117,455	100.0%	115,727	100.0%	112,690	100.0%	111,561	100.0%	112,709	100.0%
From bottle to bottle Others	102,935 14,520	87.6% 12.4%	105,051 10,676	90.8% 9.2%	102,148 10,542	90.6% 9.4%	102,826 8,734	92.2% 7.8%	104,143 8,566	92.4% 7.6%
Other Colors	108,020	100.0%	107,194	100.0%	108,426	100.0%	103,460	100.0%	107,725	100.0%
From bottle to bottle Others	19,880 88,140	18.4% 81.6%	22,967 84,227	21.4% 78.6%	17,209 91,217	15.9% 84.1%	26,707 76,753	25.8% 74.2%	33,153 74,572	30.8% 69.2%
PET bottles	143,032	100.0%	106,445	100.0%	111,847	100.0%	121,500	100.0%	158,296	100.0%
Textiles Plastic sheet Bottles Molded products Others	64,103 58,788 12,134 6,217 1,790	44.8% 41.1% 8.5% 4.3% 1.3%	55,458 41,088 6,493 3,087 319	52.1% 38.6% 6.1% 2.9% 0.3%	61,292 43,285 3,915 2,796 559	54.8% 38.7% 3.5% 2.5% 0.5%	67,685 46,808 3,278 2,965 761	55.7% 38.5% 2.7% 2.4% 0.6%	83,374 61,441 3,968 8,326 1,187	52.7% 38.8% 2.5% 5.3% 0.7%
Paper	26,471	100.0%	28,093	100.0%	27,083	100.0%	26,660	100.0%	24,702	100.0%
Materials Materials for other than paper Refuse Derived Fuel	24,894 223 1,354	94.0% 0.9% 5.1%	26,689 47 1,357	95.0% 0.2% 4.8%	25,813 197 1,073	95.3% 0.7% 4.0%	25,125 262 1,274	94.2% 1.0% 4.8%	22,564 269 1,869	91.3% 1.1% 7.6%
Plastics	365,924	100.0%	380,434	100.0%	381,163	100.0%	374,590	100.0%	393,740	100.0%
Plastics	364,991	99.7%	379,589	99.7%	380,353	99.8%	373,812	99.8%	392,997	99.8%
Molding materials Pyrolytic oil Reducing agent in blast furnaces Chemical raw materials for the coke oven Synthetic gas	88,852 6,993 36,444 174,061 58,641	24.2% 1.9% 10.0% 47.6% 16.0%	131,256 4,389 37,282 152,103 54,559	34.5% 1.2% 9.8% 40.0% 14.3%	149,678 4,258 31,259 138,626 56,531	39.3% 1.1% 8.2% 36.4% 14.9%	171,475 2,730 15,605 137,320 46,682	45.8% 0.7% 4.2% 36.7% 12.5%	170,899 6,729 25,751 145,035 44,583	43.4% 1.7% 6.5% 36.8% 11.3%
Tray	933	0.3%	845	0.2%	810	0.2%	778	0.2%	743	0.2%
Molding materials Pyrolytic oil	933 0	0.3% ( - )	845 0	0.2% ( - )	810 0	0.2% ( - )	778 0	0.2% ( - )	743 0	0.2% ( - )
	2010
	Sales volume (tons)	Percentage
Glass bottles	322,090
Colorless	101,730	100.0%
From bottle to bottle Others	100,375 1,355	98.7% 1.3%
Amber	112,810	100.0%
From bottle to bottle Others	108,689 4,120	96.3% 3.7%
Other Colors	107,551	100.0%
From bottle to bottle Others	29,963 77,588	27.9% 72.1%
PET bottles	153,192	100.0%
Textiles Plastic sheet Bottles Molded products Others	79,824 57,646 8,940 6,443 339	52.1% 37.6% 5.8% 4.2% 0.2%
Paper	27,297	100.0%
Materials Materials for other than paper Refuse Derived Fuel	25,318 253 1,726	92.8% 0.9% 6.3%
Plastics	418,681	100.0%
Plastics	417,990	99.8%
Molding materials Pyrolytic oil Reducing agent in blast furnaces Chemical raw materials for the coke oven Synthetic gas	163,515 1,057 24,851 175,579 52,988	39.1% 0.3% 5.9% 41.9% 12.7%
Tray	692	0.2%
Molding materials Pyrolytic oil	692 0	0.2% ( - )

(Jun. 2011)

The Japan Containers and Packaging Recycling Association
JCPRA INDEX