Eco-products Database

Green Purchasing Network (GPN)

The Eco-products Database is the largest database that discloses environmental information about products and services along the Green Purchasing Guidelines.

Trial for Circular Renewables Platform Providing an Effective System to Match Supply and Demand for Plastics and other Recyclable Resources to Promote a Circular Economy

Sojitz Corporation Recotech Co., Ltd. Nissho Electronics Corporation NTT Communications Corporation

This platform will combine the circular renewables platform developed by Recotech, Material Pool System, with NTT Com’s Smart Data Platform to help participating businesses visualize type, volume, and location of waste generated in real time and accumulate waste data.

Development and Practical Implementation of Used Plastic Recycling Technology by R Plus Japan, a　Cross-Industry Joint Venture Company

R Plus Japan Suntory Holdings Limited

In accordance with the Suntory Group's Plastic Policy, Suntory MONOZUKURI Expert has been working with Anellotech, a US biochemical venture company, on the joint development of PET bottles made from 100% plant-derived materials.

Value networks creation between organizations for circular economy

Circular Economy Association

We aim to establish the support system on value network creation for circular economy between organizations in accordance with the following approaches.

Recycling Work Clothes

Kajima Corporation

From the perspective of durability and other aspects, Kajima uses polyester-cotton blend fabric for the work clothes worn by Kajima employees. Kajima also recycles work clothes just like helmets.

Seven Premium Lifestyle Body Cooler, which uses recycled yarn made from PET bottles collected by the group, will be released sequentially from 129 Ito-Yokado stores nationwide.

Seven & i Holdings Co., Ltd.

Seven & i Holdings Co., Ltd. will release the functional underwear "Seven Premium Lifestyle Body Cooler" at Ito-Yokado, York-Benimaru, Sogo & Seibu stores nationwide from February 12, 2020 (Wednesday).

Materials Recovery Partnership Initiative

TAIHEIYO CEMENT CORPORATION

The concept of "resource complexes" seeks to take advantage of the fact that different materials industries have different preference materials (materials needed for products) and repellents (materials that are unnecessary or cause problems in products and processes), and to work toward the mutual exchange of preference materials and repellents among materials industries.

Microplastic countermeasure material

TEIJIN FRONTIER CO.,LTD.

The sales start time of the textile structure for clothing for microplastic measures is as follows. DELTAPEAK™ TL: 2015, DELTAPEAK™ FM: 2017, Thermo Fly™: 2020

Recycled polyester fiber products "ECOPET"

TEIJIN FRONTIER CO.,LTD.

We have been selling recycled polyester "ECOPET" since 1995 and have a sales record of more than 25 years. We sell “ECOPET” with two recycling technologies.

ペットボトルリサイクル繊維「＆+」™（アンドプラス）

Toray Industries, Inc.

Toray has positioned “&+” as the symbol of a growing public desire for PET bottle recycling activity while doing the marketing to consumers through retailers not Japan but worldwide. It was also targeting to expand the use of high-value-added fibers from PET waste globally.

Adhesive technology

TEIJIN FRONTIER CO.,LTD.

We have been selling the products which is used solvent-free water-based adhesives since 2019. RF-free adhesives are currently under development.

Development of new markets that contribute to resource recycling by licensing Triporous™, a new material made from rice husks

Sony Group Corporation and group companies

Sony has independently developed Triporous, a plant-derived porous carbon material with excellent adsorption properties and has been offering it for licensing since 2019 after obtaining a wide range of patents from basic to applied.