Side by side on an altar of a shrine in northern Kyoto, lie a drill bit, a pair of pliers and an iPad with stickers. These items are no longer used by their owners. However, these same items are receiving thanks for their assistance in their owners’...
H2O Retailing Corporation has received a 2026 Good Design Award for Shokutowa, its community food waste recycling initiative. H2O Retailing runs the initiative across Osaka and Hyogo Prefectures alongside environmental venture Chikyu Labo, creative...
We’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...
The 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...
Roger Ong
Zenbird Editorial Team
