Japan Partnership for Circular Economy
The “Japan Partnership for Circular Economy (J4CE)” was founded for the purpose of strengthening public and private partnerships, with the aim of further fostering understanding of the circular economy among a wide range of stakeholders, including domestic companies, and promoting initiatives in response to the accelerating global trend toward a circular economy.
Japan Partnership for Circular Economy
The “Japan Partnership for Circular Economy (J4CE)” was founded for the purpose of strengthening public and private partnerships, with the aim of further fostering understanding of the circular economy among a wide range of stakeholders, including domestic companies, and promoting initiatives in response to the accelerating global trend toward a circular economy.
Download: J4CE Noteworthy Cases/Initiatives 2022
Download: J4CE Noteworthy Cases/Initiatives 2021
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Promotion of recycling building material resources by upgrading the routine collection system
TAISEI CORPORATION NIPPON EXPRESS
By ensuring sorting and quantity control of scrap at the construction sites, integrated logistics management (collection, transshipment, and delivery management) based on 3PL (3rd Party Logistics) was made possible and efficient cooperative transportation between multiple construction sites and multiple receiving plants was realized.
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Synthesizing Methanol from Carbon Dioxide Efficiently to Promote Carbon Circulation
SUMITOMO CHEMICAL Co., Ltd. Shimane University
・Shimane University develops basic research into catalysts and reaction processes to increase reaction yield in the methanol synthesis using carbon dioxide as a raw material.
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Building the circulation-based model throughout the product life cycle by realizing and commercializing the recycling system of used disposable diaper
Unicharm Corporation Shibushi City,Kagoshima Prefecture Osaki Town, Soo District, Kagoshima Prefecture SORECYCLECENTER
In May 2016, Unicharm has joined the "Used Disposable Diaper Recycling Promotional Council" composed of 18 groups and individuals with an initiative of City of Shibushi, Kagoshima, and, on November 1, 2016, we entered into a three-way agreement with City of Shibushi and So Recycle Center on collection and recycling of used disposable diaper (The agreement was then expanded to four-way on April 2, 2018, as Osaki Town joined us.).
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Recovery and Reuse of Auto Parts from End-of-Life Vehicles
Tokio Marine Holdings, Inc.
When an automobile accident happens and its insurance company pay the claim in full amount of the automobile insurance, the ownership of the vehicle is transferred from the insurance policyholder to the insurance company. As a non-life insurance company, we acquire a large number of end-of-life vehicles nationwide as a result of automobile accidents. In order to reduce environmental impact, we have been making efforts to place the acquired end-of-life vehicles into recycling and reuse processes.
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Collaboration using the world's first new dissolution and separation recycling technology for the complete recycling of polystyrene.
FP Corporation DIC Corporation
In November 2020, DIC and FPCO announced plans to collaborate in the practical implementation of a closed-loop recycling system for polystyrene that maximizes the technologies, as well as the collection and recycling systems, of both companies. In this initiative, colored foamed trays will be recycled into new trays just like conventional white trays using a new dissolution and separation recycling technology, enabling a "tray-to-tray" recycling. Additionally, this effort aims to realize the closed-loop recycling that uses chemical recycling technology to recycle polystyrene to styrene monomer, which is the raw material for polystyrene.
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Low-foamed PS containers created by Low-foamed PS sheet and New molding technology.
FP Corporation Sekisui Kasei Co., Ltd.
In response to our customers' needs to further reduce the use of plastic in the market, FPCO has been conducting research on product weight reduction utilizing PSP (polystyrene paper) foaming technology in collaboration with SEKISUI KASEI CO., LTD(SEKISUI KASEI).