A Study On International Trade Of Recyclable Resources

Based on analyzing its academic bases from Ecology, Ethics and Economics, thepaper discussed (1)the definition and connotation of Circular Economy, the "3R" rulesincluding Reduce, Reuse, Recycle,(2) the structure which including Cleaning Productionby enterprises, Ecologic Industry Park; Circular Economy Society and Circular EconomyWorld. (3)to define the, circular economy, ecology economy, cleaning production andmaterial flow and to explain the interrelations that exist between them.In recent years, international trade of recyclable resources (recyclable waste andsecondhand goods)has increased. The outflow of recyclable waste destined for recyclingfrom Japan to China and the rest of Asia has been on an expansionary trend. Exports ofrecyclable waste from the EU and the US to the region have also been growing, and theseare going part way to meeting the demand for resources in China and other developingAsian countries. International flows of secondhand goods are also on the up. At the sametime, pollution generated during recycling is creating problems, and there are alsoproblems with waste that are unrecoverable, which are being exported as recyclable waste,and non-reusable wastes being exported as secondhand goods.The Basel Convention on the transboundary movement of hazardous wastes wasadopted by the international community with a view to preventing these problems; thecontrols written into the Convention are based on a system of prior notification andconsent. Some Asian countries have also introduced their own regulation on such imports;however, the regulations are not being duly enforced, and in some instances, overly strictlegislation is hampering environmentally sound recycling efforts.The primary objective of this paper is to examine the current status of trade inrecyclable resources between China and Japan. It is designed to objectify methods forcontrolling transboundary movements of recyclable resources and a framework forestablishing sound material-cycle economies within the context of global resourcerecycling. To that end, the following measures are needed: cooperative control of thetrade of recyclable resources between countries, the alignment of domestic laws with theregulations in other countries based on the actual trade activities, and the realization ofsound practices for global resources management.