The Asia 3R Conference was held in Tokyo, Japan on October 30th-November 1st, 2006 hosted by the Ministry of the Environment of Japan. There were nineteen participating countries from Asia (Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Republic of Korea, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam), five G8 member countries and community (European Commission, France, Germany, United Kingdom, and United States of America) and eight participating international organizations (the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Secretariat of the Basel Convention (SBC), South Asia Cooperative Environment Programme (SACEP), the United Nations Economic Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), the United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and the World Health Organization (WHO)).

The results of the Conference can be viewed in the Chair’s Summary.

 Chair’s Summary [PDF 133KB]

 Presentations

 Opening Session

 Background and objectives of the Senior Officials Meeting [PDF 306KB]

 Plenary Session : Prioritys and practices of the 3Rs in Asia

NIES, Japan [PDF 1,369KB]	AIT [PDF 2,047KB] (Prof. C.Visvanathan)	UNEP/ROAP [PDF 146KB]
UNCRD [PDF 415KB]	UNESCAP [PDF 968KB]	ADB [PDF 117KB]
JICA [PDF 298KB]

 Working Group

[Working Group 1:Partnership and International Cooperation for the Promotion of the 3Rs]

Indonesia [PDF 774KB]	India [PDF 1,832KB]	India [PDF 124KB]
SACEP [PDF 773KB]	City of Nagoya, Japan [PDF 1,449KB]	Asia Waste Watch [PDF 377KB] (appeal [PDF 103KB])
Japan [PDF 292KB]	Lao PDR [PDF 1,767KB]	Cambodia [PDF 2,122KB]
Sri Lanka [PDF 216KB]	Fuji Xerox Co.,Ltd [PDF 1,294KB]

[Working Group 2:Medical Waste Management]

AIT [PDF 727KB]	Japan Medical Association [PDF 600KB]	Pakistan [PDF 3,006KB]
WHO [PDF 399KB]	China [PDF 1,664KB]	Korea [PDF 1,455KB]

[Working Group 3: Municipal Organic Waste Management]

Kobe University [PDF 217KB]	Maldives [PDF 58KB]	Philippines [PDF 471KB]
Butane [PDF 1,120KB]	Singapore [PDF 1,775KB]	Bangladesh [PDF 3,899KB]
Kyoto University [PDF 371KB]	Sri Lanka [PDF 1,381KB]	Korea [PDF 366KB]
Nepal [PDF 1,979KB]	Brunei [PDF 1,105KB]

[Working Group 4:E-Waste Management]

NEIS, Japan [PDF 2,052KB]	Secretariat of the Basel Convention [PDF 104KB]	The Basel Convention Regional Centre in Indonesia [PDF 512KB]
China [PDF 4,371KB]	DOWA Eco Systems [PDF 447KB]	Keio University [PDF 30KB]
Korea [PDF 1,296KB]	China [PDF 176KB]	Thailand [PDF 1,296KB]
IGES & UNEP [PDF 70KB]	India [PDF 67KB]

 Plenary Session 2 Report from the chairs of the working groups Working Group 1-4

Working Group 1 [PDF 23KB]	Working Group 2 [PDF 15KB]	Working Group 3 [PDF 15KB]
Working Group 4 [PDF 17KB]

 Plenary Session 3: Promotion of the 3Rs in Asia from the present onwards

 Prof. Masaru Tanaka Okayama University [PDF 2,975KB]

 NGO Comments [PDF 16KB]

 Side Event :Potential for "Johkasoh" (Private Wastewater Treatment Tank) in Asia

 Japan Education Center of Environmental Sanitation, Japan [PDF 442KB]

 Overseas Environmental Cooperation Center, Japan [PDF 37KB]

 Participants List [PDF 91KB]

 Photos

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