This study mainly aims to forecast the total amount of municipal solid waste and those by type to year 2006, and to present the policy measures to change the consumption pattern for pollution prevention in Korea.
The study was carried out during the ...
This study mainly aims to forecast the total amount of municipal solid waste and those by type to year 2006, and to present the policy measures to change the consumption pattern for pollution prevention in Korea.
The study was carried out during the two year period of July, 1996 through June, 1988 During the first year period fron July, 1996 to June, 1997, the study was focussed to present the current situations on pollution by type, to review the theories of the pollution prevention measures both in foreign countries and in Korea. During the first period, forecasting of the sum of municipal solid waste and those by type were undertaken.
Some of the major findings are as follows;
First, the total amount of municipal solid waste was forcasted to be increased to 35,667 thousand tons in year 2006 from 20,481 thousand tons in year 1995. This implies the fact that there will the about 10 per cent increase during the forthcoming eleven years. By type, among others, food waste, paper waste, autombile waste. Plastic and can waste were forcasted to be increased faster than that of income and comsumption expenditures.
Second, meanwhile, the increase in the amount of coal waste and food waste was assumed to be curbed down to some extent due to the development of substitutionary energy and the introduction of Volume Based Cllection Fee System(VCF)