CHIBA--JFE Engineering Corp. started a pilot operation on what it says is the world’s only furnace that can turn household ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

A worker at a recycling facility in northern Japan made a rich discovery. The worker was sorting trash in Sapporo, a prefecture of Hokkaido, when he found wads of cash worth 10 million yen, or ...

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 ...

Food waste, including leftover rice from making onigiris, is turned into high-value animal feed through fermentation (Credit: Rachel Nuwer) Rachel Nuwer gets a firsthand look at a unique fermentation ...

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 ...

The town of Namie, in eastern Japan, was devastated by the earthquake and tsunami of 2011, and has struggled to recover from the devastation of that day. Almost seven years later, the first new plant ...

Recognising that the vast growth in solar deployment under the feed-in tariff (FiT) could lead to an accumulation of PV waste in landfills, Japan will soon begin implementing recycling rules for solar ...