Effective assessment of Japanese recycling law for electrical home appliances four years after the full enforcement of the law

IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 243-248

  Tasaki, Tomohiro ^a   Terazono, Atsushi ^a   Moriguchi, Yuichi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Assessment of recycling law; Effectiveness of recycling law; Electrical home appliances; Japanese recycling law

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; LAW ENFORCEMENT; LIFE CYCLE; RECYCLING; REGULATORY COMPLIANCE; SOLID WASTES; WASTE DISPOSAL;

ASSESSMENT OF RECYCLING LAW; EFFECTIVENESS OF RECYCLING LAW; ELECTRICAL HOME APPLIANCES; JAPANESE RECYCLING LAW;

DOMESTIC APPLIANCES;

EID: 28744448889     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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