Roger OngWe’ve talked about Circular Edonomy® before, an idea championed by Isao Kitabayashi, representative of COS KYOTO and an Edonomy researcher, that Edo-period Japan ran something close to a genuine circular economy, centuries before the term...
Zenbird Editorial TeamThe Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Ministry of the Environment have published an evaluation report on the Small Electronic Appliance Recycling System, recommending the addition of four product categories and safety measures against...
Kubota Corporation has launched a resource circulation project designed to mechanically separate food waste and plastics from municipal combustible refuse to achieve complete resource recovery. The project was selected under the Ministry of the...
JEPLAN, Inc. expanded its textile recovery and recycling initiatives to the Yokohama Marathon 2026, where they set up an on-site upcycling workshop alongside start-line garment collection and recycled race shirts. There is massive amounts of waste...
ー Sponsored by Yokohama City ー The Asia-Pacific Circular Cities Forum (APCC-Forum), an international conference on the region’s sustainable future, opened in Yokohama. The forum aims to be a key platform for Asia-Pacific cities to work...
