Hazardous Waste （Japan)

by Masato Yamashita

In Japan hazardous wastes from household materials are mostly the same in the U.S. The solutions to hazardous wastes are also the same in the U.S. 

Hazardous wastes that will not be produced in normal household materials come from industries and factories. Industrial waste collected from factories will be send to disposal factories. 

In Japan, there are about 60 thousand companies that  collects hazardous waste, although there are less disposal factories, which is a problem. Disposing hazardous wastes requires a lot of money to run the factory. 

One company exported wastes that contained hazardous materials to the Philippines, just because they didn't want to spend a lot of money on trash. What a gullible solutions to choose. 

Factories disposing chemical wastes are even more less in number. Incinerating or burring can never solve chemical waste problem. The only way to solve chemical waste is chemically neutralize hazardous chemicals. 

Either to change them into chemicals that could melt in water, or change into a substance closer to minerals in earth and bury them.

Waste coming from hospitals that may cause biohazard will be heated and exterminate all the viruses and bacteria. Flammable chemicals will be incinerated in industries. What the industry needs to be aware is not to explode or create toxic gases while the process.

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