You need permit of prefectural governor if you want to run industrial waste collection and transportation business in Japan. The license is required for each of loading site and unloading site. For example, if you pick up the industrial waste at Nara and drop off at Osaka, you have to obtain permit from both of Nara prefecture and Osaka prefecture. Hence, you may need multiple licenses across the prefectures for collection and transportation of industrial waste.
What is Industrial waste?
“Act on Waste Management and Public Cleaning” defined waste and classified as Industrial waste, municipal waste, specially controlled municipal waste and specially controlled industrial waste.
List of industrial waste category is below;
| Cinders, Ashes | Coal dust, incinerator ash, particles from furnace cleaning, and other incineration residues |
| Sludge | Organic sludge: Paper sludge, sewage sludge, activated sludge, glue dregs, urushi lacquer dregs, etc. Inorganic sludge: Coagulated sedimentation sludge, plating sludge, bentonite mud, crushed stone sludge, etc. |
| Waste oil | Waste oils (e.g., lubricating oil, insulating oil, cleaning oil, cutting oil), waste solvents, tar pitch, and all other waste oil from mineral oils and animal and vegetable fats and oils |
| Waste acid | Waste sulfuric acid, waste hydrochloric acid, waste photo developing solution, and all other acidic waste liquids |
| Waste alkali | Waste metallic cleaning liquid, waste photo developing solution, and all other alkaline waste liquids |
| Waste plastics | All waste plastics from solid and liquid synthetic polymeric compounds (e.g., synthetic resin waste, synthetic fiber waste, synthetic rubber scraps) |
| Waste paper | Waste paper from the construction industry (generated by the construction, remodeling, or demolition of structures) and the paper manufacturing, pulp/paper products manufacturing, newspaper, publishing, bookbinding, and printed material processing industries |
| Wood scraps | Wood scraps from the construction industry (generated by the construction, remodeling, or demolition of structures), the lumber industry, wood products manufacturing, pulp, imported lumber wholesaling, and goods leasing industries, and wood scraps from pallets used for distributing goods |
| Waste fibers | Items containing waste natural fibers from the construction industry (generated by the construction, remodeling, or demolition of structures) and the textile industry (excluding the clothing/other textile product manufacturing industry) |
| Animal and vegetable residues | Animal and vegetable residues used as raw materials in the food products manufacturing, medicinal product manufacturing, and fragrance manufacturing industries |
| Solid animal waste | Solid unwanted materials generated in the process of slaughtering animals at slaughterhouses and poultry processing plants |
| Rubber scraps | Natural rubber scraps (synthetic rubber scraps are categorized as waste plastics) |
| Metal scraps | Scraps generated by grinding or cutting steel and nonferrous metals |
| Glass shards, concrete rubble (excluding that generated by the construction, remodeling, or demolition of structures), and ceramic waste | Glass, concrete rubble generated in the product manufacturing process, ceramic waste, waste plasterboard, etc. |
| Slag | Residue (slag) from blast furnaces, open-hearth furnaces, and the like, cupola slag, slag, bad ore, bad coal, coal dust, waste sand from castings, etc. |
| Rubble | Concrete fragments and similar unwanted materials generated by the construction, remodeling, or demolition of structures |
| Animal manure | Manure from cattle, horses, pigs, sheep, goats, and other livestock generated by livestock farming |
| Animal carcasses | Carcasses of cattle, horses, pigs, sheep, goats, and other livestock generated by livestock farming |
| Soot | Soot generated by, and collected in the dust collection systems of facilities that generate soot and smoke |
| Items treated for the disposal of the types of waste listed above | Items treated for the disposal of the types of industrial waste listed in 1-19, that do not fall under any of categories 1-19 (e.g., concrete-solidified sludge) |
What is the necessary procedure to get permit?
First of all, you need to have training organized by Japan Industrial Waste Information Center – Courses for applying for the business licenses for the transportation and disposal of industrial wastes or the specially controlled industrial wastes.
Then submit the application form and attachments to each prefecture and/or ordinance designated city.
The procedures differs upon each prefectures, please reach out to us for the details.