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Developing 3R policy indicators for Asia and the Pacific region: experience from Regional 3R Forum in Asia and the Pacific

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In developing Asia, policies and legislations to promote reduce, reuse and recycling (3Rs) of waste have gained much traction over the last 10 years. Henceforth, the focus of governmental efforts on the 3Rs will be on improving the policy implementation and managing the policy progress. To meet these ends, it is essential to set clear policy targets and review them regularly with a set of policy and performance indicators. Experiences from various Asian countries show different types and approaches taken toward developing these 3R indicators. To bring the 3R performance indicators to a standardized and comparable level among the member countries, the 5th Regional 3R Forum in Asia and the Pacific has proposed nine indicators. These indicators are recommended to consider the linkages with resource efficiency and the green economy, rather than just end-of-life product recycling. This paper describes the Asian experience and efforts to set core set of 3R policy indicators to monitor progress of 3R implementation at regional level.

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This paper is based on background papers for the 4th and 5th Regional 3R Forum in Asia and the Pacific held in Hanoi, 18–20, March 2013. The original background papers “Performance Indicators in 3Rs and Resource Efficiency: Monitoring the Progress of 3R Efforts Towards a Green Economy” and “Suggested Core Set of 3R Policy Indicators” of the Regional 3R Forum in Asia and the Pacific were developed by members of Asia Resource Circulation Policy Research Group under Fiscal Year 2012 and Fiscal Year 2013 Asia Resource Circulation Policy Research Programme commissioned by Ministry of the Environment of Japan.

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    Yasuhiko Hotta

  2. Asian Institute of Technology, Khlong Luang, Thailand

    Chettiyapan Visvanathan

  3. Institute for Development Economies-JETRO, Chiba, Japan

    Michikazu Kojima

  4. University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Agamuthu Pariatamby

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Hotta, Y., Visvanathan, C., Kojima, M. et al. Developing 3R policy indicators for Asia and the Pacific region: experience from Regional 3R Forum in Asia and the Pacific. J Mater Cycles Waste Manag 18, 22–37 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10163-015-0442-3

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