Objective

• Providing basic data for establishing and improving policy of promoting domestic recycling industry by statistical research on waste/recycling
• Integrated information service providing waste/recycling data to places of recycling business vulnerable to collecting and practicing data

Legal Basis

Legal BasisArticle4, Enforcement Decree of the Statistics Act (Designation of Designated Statistics Collecting Agencies)
• Legal BasisArticle18, Statistics Act and Article24, Enforcement Decree of the Statistics Act (Approval for Collection of Statistics)
• Legal BasisArticle4, Paragraph3, Wastes Control Act (Accountabilities of State and Local Governments)
• Legal BasisArticle11, Wastes Control Act and Article7, Enforcement Decree of the Wastes Control Act (Statistical Research on Wastes)
• Legal BasisArticle25, Wastes Control Act (Waste Management Businesses)
• Legal BasisArticle38, Wastes Control Act and Article60, Enforcement Decree of the Wastes Control Act (Submission of Reports)
• Legal BasisArticle46, Wastes Control Act (Reporting on Waste Recycling)
• Legal BasisArticle58, Wastes Control Act and Article81, Enforcement Decree of the Wastes Control Act (Reporting on Performance of Waste Management)
• Legal BasisArticle23, Act on the Promotion of Saving and Recycling of Resources (Matters to be Observed by Designated Recycling Businesses)

Background on Propulsion

• December, 2002 - Designation of Designated Statistics Collecting Agencies (Article4, Enforcement Decree of the Statistics Act))
• 2003 ? Approval for 4 national statistics including market survey on recyclable materials )
• 2004 ? Adding 1 national statistics (Survey on agriculture waste))
• 2006 - Contracting 2 statistical researches including Survey on waste materials )
• 2008 ? Completing 3 statistical researches including state of occurrence and disposal of national/designated waste by unification of wastes statistics )
• 2009 ? Contracting Status of investment in environmental pollution control (? Ministry of Environment) )

Annual Status of Report

10 kinds of National Statistics (Sorted by approval number) the basic date : January, 2011

the basic date : January, 2011

No	Statistical Research	Period	Main Contents
1	Market survey on recyclable materials	Monthly	Internal and external economic trends and price trends of raw materials, Price trends of recyclable resources
2	Waste generation and minimization	year	Consumed volume classified by base material, annual production and sales , volume of wastes and results
3	Specified companies' waste management	year	Specified companies' yearly recycling plan and results
4	Permission of waste mid-disposal business and status of recycling companies	year	Analyzing status of companies classified by wastes and results
5	Survey on agriculture waste	year	Farming house, outdoors mulching plastic waste, agricultural pesticides bottles
6	Status of occurrence and disposal of national waste	year	Households wastes, wastes from places of business, occurrence and treating volume classified by construction waste
	Status of occurrence and disposal of designated waste	year	Volume of occurrence and treating classified by local and kinds, status by treating methods
7	Status of Volume-based Waste Disposal Fee System	year	Status of producing and selling volume-based waste package and financial independence
8	Survey on the environmental industry	year	Status of sales, assets, investment, exports classified by environmental protection activities
9	Status of investment in environmental pollution control	year	Results of contract for preventing facility construction, results of investment in environmental pollution control classified by industry
10	Survey on waste materials	5year	Status of wastes disposal facilities, agenda on brought wastes

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