(1) When a Designated Manufacturer/User voluntarily collects specified containers it uses, specified containers it manufactures, etc., or specified packaging it uses, or collects them through entrustment to another person, it may offer that effect to the competent minister in order to obtain recognition to the effect that the method of collecting specified containers or specified packaging it adopts is appropriate to achieve a collection rate specified by the ordinance of the competent ministry.〔【出典】日本法令外国語訳データベースシステム 〕
2003年のペットボトルの回収率が最近、発表されました。
The rate of collection of plastic bottles in 2003 has been recently released."MB000687", "2501629"
(4) The competent minister may, when he/she finds that the method of collection pertaining to the recognition set forth in paragraph 1 has become inappropriate to achieve the collection rate specified by the ordinance of the competent ministry prescribed in the same paragraph, rescind the recognition.〔【出典】日本法令外国語訳データベースシステム 〕
However the collection of PET bottles still has a long way to go if it is going to catch up with the production of the bottles which has doubled in six years.〔【出典】Hiragana Times, 1999年1月号◆【出版社】株式会社ヤック企画 〕"HT147026", "2323820"