Regulation for Enforcement of the Act on Promotion of Recycling of Small Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (No. 3). Country/Territory Japan Document type Regulation Date 2013 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Environment gen., Waste & hazardous substances Keyword Enforcement/compliance Waste management Waste non-domestic sources Pollution control Environmental planning Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings Procedural matters Waste disposal Recycling/reuse Policy/planning Geographical area Asia, Asia and the Pacific, Eastern Asia, North Pacific, North-West Pacific Entry into force notes This Regulation enters into force on 1 April 2013. Abstract This Regulation enforces the Act on Promotion of Recycling of Small Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment. The standards specified by order of the competent ministry set forth in Article 10, paragraph (3), item (i) of the Act are as follows: i) the entire process from the collection to the completion of disposal of small waste electrical and electronic equipment is clear; ii) the person recovers sealed batteries (limited to those with a quantity of electricity of not more than 234 kC), or sealed alkaline or lithium batteries and excluding those for holding equipment memory), fluorescent light tubes, gas cylinders and toner cartridges from small waste electrical and electronic equipment within a range technically and economically possible, and disposes of those sealed batteries etc. by itself or delivers them to a person who can carry out that disposal in the course of trade; iii) the person recovers fluorocarbons (as at Rational Use and Proper Management of Fluorocarbons Act No. 64 of 2001); iv) highly advanced and recovered iron, aluminum, copper, gold, silver, platinum, palladium and plastic contained in small waste electrical and electronic equipment by way of shredding, sorting or other means, and carries out the recycling, heat recovery that can be or are highly likely to be used for burning for the purpose of obtaining heat or stabilization of specific resources, specified in the text. Full text English/Japanese Website www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp References - Legislation Implements Act on Promotion of Recycling of Small Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (No. 57). Legislation | Japan | 2012 Keyword: Pollution control, Environmental planning, Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings, Procedural matters, Waste disposal, Waste non-domestic sources, Waste management, Recycling/reuse, Policy/planning Source: FAO, FAOLEX