世論 What Japan Thinks

In this recent survey from goo Research, reported on by japan.internet.com, into the PC Recycle Law, the vast majority who knew it well reckoned it worked to at least some degree.

Demographics

On the 6th of September 2010 1,084 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.6% of the sample were male, 16.0% in their teens, 17.5% in their twenties, 21.2% in their thirties, 16.5% in their forties, 16.3% in their fifties, and 12.5% aged sixty or older.

I never got any explanation about the law, nor did I see anything in the manual, when I bought my computer nor my LCD monitor, which should also be covered.

I know somone who was too stingy to pay the 4,000 yen or so to throw out an ancient LCD monitor, so instead he dismantled it and chucked it out (in the correct recycle bins, I he must add) bit by bit.

Research results

Q1: Do you know about the PC Recycle Law? (Sample size=1,084)

Know nothing about it	18.9%
Just heard the term	38.0%
Know something about it	34.9%
Know it well (to SQ)	8.2%

Q1SQ: How well do you think the PC Recycle Law functions? (Sample size=89)

Functions well	9.0%
Functions to some degree	59.6%
Doesn’t really function	12.4%
Doesn’t function at all	5.6%
Don’t know	13.5%

Next, the 949 people who had bought a computer since October 2003, the time the PC Recycle Law came into effect, were asked the following:

Q2: When you last bought a PC, did the shop or the maker, etc explain the PC Recycle Law, either orally or on paper? (Sample size=949)

Yes	13.5%
No	51.4%
Don’t remember, don’t know	35.1%