About JW Center

-About JW Center

Activities

The JW Center undertakes the following activities to achieve the above objectives.

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Further Information

For further information, please contact the following.

International Affairs Division
Japan Industrial Waste Information Center

Address	3-24-6 Ueno Frontier Tower Bldg. 13F, Taitou-ku, Tokyo 110-0005, Japan [ Map → ]
FAX	+81-3-5807-5912
E-mail	kokusai@jwnet.or.jp

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Electronic Manifest

When industrial waste generators commission on the disposal of their wastes to others, they are requested to confirm that their wastes have been disposed properly by means of either the paper manifest or electronic manifest.
Under the Waste Management Law, the JW Center is designated by the Minister of the Environment as the exclusive Information Processing Center for the implementation of the electronic manifest.

Growing use of e-manifest

Of all manifests, e-manifest reached 81% or 40,617 million registrations in FY2023, with 277,282 waste generators, 28,255 transporters and 10,138 disposers in use. The construction industry has the largest number of registrations, accounting for 40% followed by whole sales and retailing.
The 2017 Amendment to the Waste Management Law requires waste generators who generate more than 50 tons of specially controlled industrial waste annually to use the e-manifest. In December 2021, the utilization rate of e-manifests reached 70%, which the government had targeted to achieve by March 2022.The number of e-manifest users continues to increase. Now, the JW Center is studying the effective use of e-manifest information as big data for establishing a sound material-cycle society, for example, by using BI tools.

How the e-manifest system works

Three parties involved － the waste generator, the transporter and the disposer of wastes (the intermediate or the final disposer) － exchange computerized manifest data via the Information Processing Center over the internet.

Services of the Information Processing Center

The JW Center as the Information Processing Center carries out the management and operation of the e-manifest system and the preservation of the data registered.
The JW Center also makes the following reporting to prefectural governments and designated cities according to the Waste Management Law.

・The yearly (from April 1st to March 31st) status report on the registration and reporting of the e-manifest to the prefectural government or the city that has jurisdiction over waste generation sites by June 30th of each year.
・The e-manifest report concerned upon requests by the local governments.

Promotion and publicity of the system

The JW Center is actively promoting the nationwide use of the e-manifest through,
・Providing orientation for transition to the e-manifest and relative cooperation,
・Holding the e-manifest trial seminars,
・Providing the demonstration version of the system,
・Preparing and distributing promotional brochures and videos, and
・Providing information related to the e-manifest on homepage.

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Guidebook

Electronic Manigest Trial Seminars

Education and training courses for managers of the specially controlled industrial wastes

Courses for acquiring the qualification for managers that are required by the law to be appointed at the site, generating the specially controlled industrial wastes with explosiveness, toxicity or infectiousness among industrial wastes.

Courses for applying for the business licenses for the transportation and disposal of industrial wastes or the specially controlled industrial wastes

Courses for new and renewal applicants to acquire "sufficient knowledge for proper management" which is required by the law to apply for the business licenses for the collection and transportation, or disposal of industrial wastes.

Course for the collection and transportation of PCB wastes

Course to acquire "sufficient knowledge of the characteristics of PCB wastes", which is required by the law to apply for the business license for the collection and transportation of PCB wastes.

Workshop for waste generators engaged in managing industrial wastes

The JW Center provides the workshop for waste generators to increase their practical knowledge of the commission contract, the manifest, recordkeeping and others that are the fundamentals for industrial waste management.

Evaluation of Receptacles for Infectious Wastes

The JW Center provides a service for evaluation of the receptacles to be used for collecting and transporting infectious wastes based on its own criterion. This service aims at encouraging the use of proper receptacles at healthcare establishments.

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Research

The JW Center undergoes both consigned surveys by the government and its original ones.
In addition, the JW Center collects and analyzes information on proper disposal and recycling of industrial waste, and provides information on the results.

International Cooperation

For the establishment of a sound material-cycle society in Asia, the JW Center carries out the collection and dissemination of information, and international cooperation.
JW Center, Korea, and Taiwan have held network meetings since 2013 to discuss the e-manifest and other waste management related issues.
Also, JW Center promotes a bilateral cooperation in this field, and accepted government officials and researchers including Deputy Minister of Industry Thailand.

 

Publications and Publicity

Public information through website etc.

The JW Center informs of its latest activities through the homepage and e-mail magazine.