世論 What Japan Thinks

A recent survey from iBridge Research Plus, reported on by japan.internet.com, into the computer recycling law found a significant percentage unaware of the details, a category I fall into too, I suppose.

Demographics

On the 19th of April 2010 300 members of the iBridge monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 59.3% of the sample were male, 12.7% in their twenties, 30.7% in their thirties, 34.3% in their forties, 15.3% in their fifties, and 7.0% in their sixties.

The Law for Promotion of Effective Utilization of Resources came into being in 2003, but due to almost no computers being recycled, a new version, the PC Recycle Law, was enacted in 2008. About all I know about it is that it means that you cannot throw away old computers and monitors, etc; you have to pay a fee to get them collected. Therefore, I have sitting in my trunk room an old motherboard and flat-screen monitor that I don’t really feel like paying a fee for, so they might sit there until we move house.

Research results

Q1: Do you know about the PC Recycle Law or the Law for Promotion of Effective Utilization of Resources on which it was based? (Sample size=300)

Don’t know anything about it	18.7%
Just heard of it	40.3%
Know something about it	36.0%
Know it well (to SQ)	5.0%

Q1SQ: How well do you think the PC Recycle Law functions? (Sample size=15)

Think it functions well	0.0%
Think it functions reasonably well	40.0%
Think it doesn’t function well	46.7%
Think it doesn’t function at all	0.0%
Don’t know	13.3%

Finally, this year 26 people had disposed of a PC bought after the law came into effect. They were asked the following.

Q2: When buying the PC you disposed of, did the maker, shop, etc explain verbally on in print about recycling, as required by the PC Recycle Law? (Sample size=26)

Yes	23.1%
No	76.9%