The mayor said, owing to the sorting, the recycle ratio of domestic trash in the city has so highly improved that trash burned in the city’s incinerators has decreased by about thirty percent. Thus two incinerators have become unnecessary and the replacement cost of the facilities (about hundred billion yen) and the operation cost (about three billion yen) have been saved. Moreover the carbon dioxide emitted from the incinerators has become zero which equals to the effect by newly planted several thousand of Japanese cedars among the city.

Among the residents there are many small business offices. Their trash may be treated as same as domestic trash. Therefore Nakata’s thanks for theses offices may be included.
For such small companies decreasing trash may be a very important environmental objective in Yokohama city.
I think certification bodies which do not accept environmental objectives, targets such as reduction of waste papers, trash and use of electricity have no right to assess Mr. Nakata’s great work (refer to “False assessment policy for ISO14001:2004 by the certification body A: Oct.4w, 2005” and “Transition assessment of ISO14001:2004 of Company S: Nov.2w, 2005” in ISO14001 standard corner on this web-site)

The Mr. Nakata’s great work has showed environmental objectives, targets such as reduction of trash is very important.