English text of the Law for Promotion of Sorted Collection and Recycling of Containers and Packaging (in a pdf file), Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry. http://www.meti.go.jp/english/information/ downloadfiles/cReCont02e.pdf

English text of the Law for Recycling of Specified Kinds of Home Appliances, June 1999, Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry, http://www.meti.go.jp/english/special/ EnvironmentalProtection/index.html

Japan Container and Package Recycling Association. Web site in Japanese http://www. jcpra.or.jp/index.html. A free web site translator available at http://babelfish.altavista. com/ produces a rough translation.

Japan Expanded Polystyrene Recycling Association (JEPSRA) 6F Shouwaakihabara Building, 2-20 Sakuma-cho, Kanda Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 101-0025 Tel 03-3861-9046/Fax 03-3861-0096 http://www.jepsra.gr.jp/en/

Republic of Korea Ministry of Environment English web site: http://www.me.go.kr/english/newindex.html

Taiwan Environmental Protection Administration web site: http://www.epa.gov.tw/ english/

Taiwan Waste Disposal Act as revised March 28, 1997. http://www.epa.gov.tw/english/ LAWS/wasteact.htm

NIPPO Internet: Packaging & Waste Information Site http://www.nippo.co.jp/eng/efrnt.htm

Raymond Communications, Inc. (publisher of Recycling Laws International) 5111 Berwyn Rd. #115, College Park, MD 20740 Telephone: 301.345.4237 Web site: http://www.raymond.com/ Fax: 301.345.4768

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