Presentation William McDonough USGBC Newport Beach
IRRSG Concern Meeting Conference on the decline in Japan recycling and dismantling technologies due to increased exports of used cars by Professor Togawa Kumamoto Univ.
On October 16, the regular meeting in April 2015 IRRSG held in Josui-Kaikan in Tokyo, where 7 lectures were given on the auto recycling from major stand points as a car manufacturer, a manufacturer of steel, the Agency for the Japanese environment, a consultant and university professor with over 100 participants.
Each of the seven conferences was beautiful and precious, but we would like to focus here on lectures by Professor Togawa Kumamoto University and M. Takeda Taiheiyo Cement Corp.
Prof Togawa said he was in poor health until recently, but it was the most exciting speaker of the day with her powerful and aggressive conference as he was blown away our cares He must be honest because his message had just one point and told us a true story that made sense.
Prof Togawa highlighted concerns about the decline of recycling and dismantling technology in Japan.
In Japan, 3 5 million end of life vehicles are produced each year and 1 5 million are exported to countries overseas stressed that Japan could lose the technologies acquired as demolition materials left.
Here we would like to introduce some of Prof Togawa comments submitted to the Government of the board, which are really the target.
In other words, the decline of technology led to a decline any industry itself to avoid this, it is necessary to use the resources in the recycling in Japan.
This is a common to all resources Currently, resources and distribution are based on foreign trade, but the unpredictable circumstances of preparations are required.
Each attendant motioned to his sharp sense of maintaining and transmitting technology.
In addition, we would like to focus on methods of recycling and disposal of carbon fiber mentioned by M. Takeda at the end of his lecture.
Therefore, incineration is the method of removing the carbon fiber to the method of recycling carbon light of the current moment is still in development, but the incineration method has also many problems because of the degree of resistance flame carbon fiber.
It requires considerable time to incinerate the carbon fiber Some don t accept incinerators carbon fiber, I had an impression that the carbon fiber would turn into a very embarrassing material after use.
Speaking of carbon fiber, aircraft pop into my head carbon fiber had already Freid and are controlled in airplanes bulk Recyclable even more in Japan, but the lives of most aircraft are generally told the end within 20 years, it is important to establish a method of recycling carbon fibers hitherto.
Like other speakers also mentioned to manufacture products recyclers views, to be honest, the carbon fiber had not thought about recycling.
Carbon fiber can be called by decision pressure to meet the urgent needs to improve energy efficiency and sustainability They are definitely great to use, but they will become a troublesome material after use as a method of disposal has yet to be implemented Japan will be back to what it would be if the landfill is back to life.
The manufacture of Japan should have the perspective as a country of high recycling, Japan We felt that we should not allow decrease of technologies at the conference meeting this time as mentioned Prof Togawa.
The lectures and lecturers of the regular meeting in April 2015 IRRSG are as follows.
The current problems on recycling of automotive and future policy direction by Yuji Yamaguchi, Deputy Director of Recycling Promotion Department of Waste Division and recycling the Minister's Secretariat, Ministry of the Environment.
Precious metal iron base in automobiles by Eizaburo Nakanishi, director of the Technology Development Department in Tokyo Steel Co Ltd.
Efforts to car to car recycling as automaker by Mr. Tomokazu Abe, Director of the Environmental Center of Japan Headquarters in Business Planning Department at Honda Motor Co Ltd.
urban and urban mine oil production in the automotive recycling by Professor Kenichi Togawa, Faculty of Law at the University of Kumamoto.
NI-MH Recycling LIB Umicore Mr Io Matsushima, director of precious metals and recycling of batteries Umicore Japan Co Ltd.
The efforts on the automobile recycling Taiheiyo Cement by Mr. Junichi Takeda, ICP Business Development Group of the Environment Division at Taiheiyo Cement Corp.
Suggestions for global optimization of automotive recycling process through collaboration between the parties by Mr. Kotaro Shimizu, chief researcher of the Environment and Energy at Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting.
Friendly game was lively place as usual after the conference meeting.
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