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 ...

If you thought sorting out your recycling every week was a bit tedious, spare a thought for the residents of Kamikatsu, a village in Japan. They have to spend a lot more time cleaning cartons, ...

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 ...

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 ...

(MENAFN- ForPressRelease) Tokyo, Japan : RX Japan has announced the launch of Recycle Tech Japan, a new exhibition focused on recycling technologies and circular economy solutions, taking place from ...

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 ...

Uranium reprocessing plant set for trial runs early next year. Japan's bid to recycle nuclear fuel at home came closer to reality this month, with the announcement that a massive, US$27-billion ...

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.

PureCycle Technologies Inc. is attracting more attention for the company's polypropylene recycling technology from Asia, this time signing on with a major company based in Japan. Orlando, Fla.-based ...