Japan aims to reduce clothes waste by 25 percent by fiscal 2030 compared with 10 years before to address the environmental ...

Japan's Environment Ministry plans to compile by March an action plan aimed at reducing large amounts of clothing waste from ...

It’s not yet 8 a.m., and the recycling center in the town of Kamikatsu is already bustling. Locals arrive in a steady stream, unloading bags full of bottles, cans, and paper into dozens of ...

Paper recycling consultant Bill Moore says several countries have enacted policies that can boost recovered paper collection ...

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 ...

Kamikatsu started recycling in 2003 and now 80% of is diverted from the landfill. BY Ben Schiller If you thought sorting out your recycling every week was a bit tedious, spare a thought for the ...

When China banned the import of used plastics in late 2017, the move threw recycling programs worldwide into turmoil. China was the world’s top importer of plastic waste. Cities worldwide had fallen ...

Japan's Kamikatsu, a town of 1,500, achieved an 80% recycling rate by embracing a radical zero-waste policy. Residents meticulously sort waste into 45 categories, with initiatives like the Kurukuru ...

Japan's renowned cleanliness stems from a deep-rooted culture of social responsibility, not an abundance of public bins.

Fumio Kaneko, cofounder and president of waste management company Daiei Kankyo. Last December, the company raised $315 million from an IPO in Tokyo Stock Exchange. One of Japan’s largest IPOs in 2022 ...

Consumers and corporations in Japan already cooperate to collect 92.2% of the PET bottles used in Japan (in fiscal 2017) without a deposit system and recycle 84.8% of the recovered material according ...