Environmental technologies that bring about environmental conservation and other effects
Biodiversity ensuring technology, alien species countermeasure technology, etc.
Water environment improvement technology category for closed sea areas, natural area toilet and human waste treatment technology category
▶ Verification guidelines for existing categories
Closed sea areas have unique conditions such as easy accumulation of pollutants. So far, we have implemented total water quality regulations for COD, nitrogen and phosphorus, but there are still anoxic water bodies and red tides. For this reason, the “Regarding the Sixth Total Water Quality Regulation” (reported by the Central Environment Council in May 2005) includes the conventional measures to reduce pollution load, the conservation and regeneration of tidal flats, and the sediment environment. Improvements were incorporated.
The Ministry of the Environment continues to steadily promote the regulation of total water quality, and is also developing and promoting the technology for directly purifying the sea area and the technology for improving the biological habitat.
The ETV program believes that it will be useful for selecting technologies that meet the needs of users by disclosing the results of third-party technology Verification tests and providing various information necessary to determine the effectiveness of the technology.
In recent years, diversification of leisure has brought many people to natural areas. Restroom maintenance is indispensable to ensure proper use while preserving the natural environment. However, in natural areas where infrastructure such as commercial power and water and sewage systems is not yet developed, there is room for improvement in toilets nationwide.
By improving toilets, the adverse effects of outdoor excretion on surrounding public water area and vegetation will be prevented, and the convenience and comfort of users will be improved. In addition, the maintenance of toilets suppresses the user from stepping outside the sidewalk, which leads to effects of preserving vegetation and ensuring user safety.
In order to maintain toilets, it is necessary to select human waste treatment technology suitable for the location conditions, and it is essential to collect basic information on each technology.
The ETV program publishes the results of a technology verification test by a third party and provides various types of information necessary for judging the effectiveness of the technology, thus helping selection of technology that meets the needs of users.
The ETV program provides users with an overview of available environmental technologies, publishes the results of technology verification tests by third parties, and provides various information necessary for the user's technology selection. This program will extract the potential needs of users and will help the applicant to spread the useful technology.
In fact, in a questionnaire survey of past applicants for verification, respondents stated that "inquiries about technology increased after verification" and that "there were some effects on activities such as sales promotion and technology development." In addition, some respondents stated that "the issued ETV logo was posted on product brochures, technical reports, external brochures, and on their websites."
Guidebook for human waste treatment technology field in natural area [PDF 4.1MB}
In the toilet needs survey of local governments nationwide, there were cases where there was a need for technology but no introduction was considered and cases where introduction was considered but no maintenance was achieved. One of the reasons is that users are worried about technical skills due to lack of technical information.
In addition, even in cases where maintenance has been performed, there are concerns that expected technical performance is not exhibited after maintenance, or that unexpected maintenance costs are incurred. One of the reasons for this is considered to be the lack of information when selecting technologies, such as the introduction of technologies that are not suitable for location conditions and the maintenance of equipment at scales that do not match actual usage.
The ETV program provides users with an overview of available environmental technologies, publishes the results of technology verification tests by third parties, and provides various information necessary for the user's technology selection. This program will extract the potential needs of users and will help the applicant to spread the useful advanced environmental technology.
Veified numbers and logos are issued to verified technologies, which can be used for advertisements for introducing the technologies and promoting the spread of products. They are actually used in product brochures and on company websites.
