Japan, famously, has very few public trash cans. On the other hand, when out and about you’ll come across quite a few recycling boxes, both next to drink vending machines and in spaces like parks and ...
Japan recently established an automobile recycling system featuring what it calls a groundbreaking scheme for collecting fees from consumers, but uncertainty remains over how the resulting mountain of ...
The Japanese Cabinet approved a bill last week that would oblige automakers and car importers to recycle three components of used vehicles and have consumers pay the costs. The bill, drafted by the ...
Recycling food scraps back into food you can eat sounds disgusting at first. But I'm sure everyone hearing about Japan's way of tackling waste would want to know how the process works and how the ...
TOKYO/BERLIN (Reuters) - Japan and Germany are waking up to the idea of recycling rare earths as a hedge against China's tightening grip on supplies crucial to their large high-tech export industries.
Promotion of plastic waste recycling has become a global issue, as seen in the ocean microplastic problem. While Japan's plastic recycling ratio is 86%, only 13.5% of the plastics waste are recycled ...
The Kaiho Sangyo Company Limited, a leading automobile recycling company in Japan, has announced plans to set up a vehicle parts recycling plant in Meru County. This will be the company’s first auto ...
In response, Professor Kotohiro Nomura and his team at Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a highly efficient method to selectively depolymerize PET from bottles and textile wastes. Their ...
TOKYO/BERLIN (Reuters) - Japan and Germany are waking up to the idea of recycling rare earths as a hedge against China's tightening grip on supplies crucial to their large high-tech export industries.