Recycling fees are efficiently used for recycling.
Specified business entities
Recycling obligations
The JCPRA operates recycling business on behalf of the specified business entities. By paying recycling fees to the JCPRA, these business entities are deemed to have fulfilled their recycling obligations.
Who are the specified business entities?
- Manufacturers who use containers and wrapping for shipping their products
- Retailers and wholesalers who use containers and wrapping for selling merchandise
- Manufacturers of containers
- Importers who import and sell merchandise in containers or wrapping
- Importers of containers
- Small businesses are excluded.
Small businesses
Consumers
Sorted disposal
Rinsing waste with water before disposal
When discarding waste, consumers are required to follow sorting guidelines established by the municipalities. This facilitates recycling and use of waste as resources. Paying just a little attention is the first step in recycling.
Municipalities
Sorted collection
Collecting and sorting waste that conform to “sorting standards”
Municipalities will collect and remove foreign matter from container and packaging waste (that meets sorting standards) stored at designated storage facilities and waste that has been sorted and collected in accordance with the Act on Promotion of Resource Recycling Related to Plastics (Plastics Act), and hand it over to the Association.
- *Municipalities will cover the costs of recycling waste generated by small businesses that are exempt from the recycling obligation, as well as the costs of recycling under the Plastics Act.
- *For items such as PET bottles, which are traded in bidding markets, the total amount (excluding consumption taxes) paid by recyclers to the JCPRA is paid to municipalities (contribution).
Recyclers
Transportation and recycling of "waste containers and wrapping conforming to the sorting standards"
The JCPRA entrusts recyclers to collect the waste containers and wrapping from storage facilities, and recycle them. The recyclers are authorized to sell the recycled materials. The recyclers who have passed the inspection examination by public sectors for recycling waste in particular are eligible to participate in the JCPRA’s contract for this very year. Bidding is conducted simultaneously nationwide, and the bid winner gets a one-year contract. Recycling has been confirmed that after it has been paid back to recyclers by purchasing authorities beyond the cost of those goods.
