Feasibility of Building a Recycling Society in Miyako and Yaeyama Regions of Okinawa Prefecture

在前人的研究之后，今年我调查了冲绳县主要的三家地方报纸，调查了环境问题，分别在7月、11月、12月和2月走访了冲绳岛，采访了地方当局、焚化站的工作人员、回收中心和当地的积极分子，了解各种物品的回收和再利用情况。冲绳市政府于2000年3月启动了零排放计划，旨在建立环境友好型社会，但缺乏人员、愿景和资金，并且没有将该计划与城市垃圾管理政策挂钩。由于基础设施落后，建设风力发电场的计划陷入僵局。保存水源的条件因岛而异。在这些偏远的岛屿上，货物废物不能回收利用。因此，冲绳社会作为一个整体，还没有准备好建设和实施“环境友好型社会”或“循环型社会”的政策，尽管观察到了许多新兴的努力。

Following the previous research, this year I have surveyed the main three local newspapers of Okinawa Prefecture to check the environmental issues, visited in July, November, December and February Okinawan Islands, interviewing local authorities, workers at incineration stations, and "recycling centers" and local activists to know the situation of recycling and reuse of many kinds of goods. Okinawan government launched Zero Emission Plan in March, 2000 to establish an environment-friendly society, but ran short of staff, visions, and money, and did not link the plan with the municipal waste management policies. Plan to buiId wind farm has been deadlocked because of poor infrastructure. Conditions for water preservation vary island to island. Goods-wastes cannot be recycled on these remote islands. So the Okinawan Society as a whole is not ready to construct and implement policies toward "environmental-friendly society" or "circulatory type of society," though many burgeoning efforts are observed.