There are various viewpoints to put together situations of resource recycling inforeign countries. It was of course impossible to include all the information for resource recycling in this paper, which discusses exclusively the following subjects:
(1) Trends of research study for metals recycling in foreign countries; and,
(2) Trends of activities relating to resource recycling in foreign countries.
First subject includes an outline of the international symposium on recycling of metals in the United States, and future trends on metals recycling.The second subject includes the situation of waste management in the world, an outline of institutions relating to resource recycling, and present trends in foreign countries and the problems in our country on resource recycling.