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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Kamikatsu, the first town in Japan to create almost no waste, built a recycling center out of trash. It's constructed from donated windows, remnant wood, plastic containers, and other unwanted items.

TOKYO – The Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan announced Monday plans to begin an experimental study in France to recycle substances used in mixed oxide (MOX) fuel that contains depleted ...