PRTR

The PRTR (Pollutant Release and Transfer Register: Chemical Substance Emissions and Transfer Register) is a mechanism to grasp, collect and publish data on whether a wide variety of harmful chemical substances were discharged into the environment, or included in waste. This is a mechanism to grasp, tabulated, and publish data on whether it was carried out outside the business site. There are 462 chemical substances covered in this category.
The PRTR system was established under the "Law Concerning the Estimation of Specific Chemical Substances into the Environment and the Promotion of Improvement of Management" (the Chemical Substances Control Law) (external site).
The PRTR system has made it possible for citizens and governments to obtain more detailed information on chemical emissions. As a result, citizens have more opportunities to actively participate in initiatives to address chemical substances, which had to be left to governments and businesses.
Using PRTR data, citizens, businesses, governments, etc. will work together to promote chemical substance countermeasures while discussing the current state of chemical substance emissions, the contents of countermeasures, and the progress of chemical substances. Will be

As for the detailed explanation about PRTR, please see (PRTR information open space: Ministry of the Environment) (outside site).

Please refer to PRTR notification method for PRTR for the method and style of PRTR.

• Results of Yokohama City
• Results of Kanagawa Prefecture (Kanagawa Prefecture) (outside site)
• National tabulation results (PRTR Information Plaza: Ministry of the Environment) (outside site)
• Data of individual offices (PRTR Information Plaza: Ministry of the Environment) (outside site)
• PRTR Map Concentration and Emissions (Product Evaluation Technology and Infrastructure Organization) (External Site)