Payment of Money to the Municipal Government
Through the revision to the Container and Packaging Recycling Act (in June 2006), a new clause was established as Article 10-2, entitled Payment of Money to the Municipal Government, and was put into effect in April 2008.

The new clause provides for a collaborative system according to the principle that all parties in society, including business entities (manufactures and users), municipal governments, and consumers, should collaborate in realizing the rational and efficient recycling of waste containers and packaging, and that business entities should pay any benefit from cost efficiency to the municipal government.

Under this system, if the total amount of expenses actually required for recycling falls below the total amount of expenses projected to be required for recycling, a business entity must pay a monetary amount equivalent to half of the difference in expenses to the municipal government.
 
 
 
Payment from specified business entities to municipal governments Payment from specified business entities to municipal governments

If, for recycling in each fiscal year, the total amount of expenses that were actually required falls below the total amount of expenses initially projected, specified business entities must pay a monetary amount equivalent to half of the difference in expenses as “payment for rational recycling” to the municipal government.

To secure this statutory payment, these business entities pay fees (payment fees) to the Japan Containers and Packaging Recycling Association (JCPRA), which then pays these fees to the municipal government.

This is the outline of the system of payment from specified business entities to the municipal government.

Japanese Law Translation
Payment of Money to the Municipal Government