Powering Sustainability through Collaborative Design

STMICROELECTRONICS K.K.

STMICROELECTRONICS, ELEPHANTECH Collaboration on reducing the carbon footprint (PCF) of a working solution for industrial sustainability.

Fashion sharing service for everyday clothes to decarbonize and reduce clothing waste

airCloset, Inc.

airCloset offers a subscription-based service that allows customers to rent and enjoy outfits coordinated by professional stylists based on their body type, preferences, and intended usage. The service is accessible nationwide in Japan with a simple online registration. Customers can enjoy the delivered clothing, return it, and receive their next set of outfits within a few days.

Collection of refill packs and film-to-film recycling

Kao Corporation Lion Corporation Ito-Yokado Co., Ltd. Welcia Yakkyoku Co., Ltd. Hamakyorex Co., Ltd. The City of Kamakura

Kao developed a technology to recycle refill packs into refill packs, and launched film-to-film recycled products with Lion, a competitor in the same industry. Ito-Yokado and Welcia Yakkyoku set up collection boxes in their stores to collect refill packs and sold film-to-film recycled products. Hamakyorex established an efficient aggregation system using return delivery to Welcia Yakkyoku.

Acceleration of recycling waste plastics from small household appliances: Establishing large-scale collection routes and an integrated resource circulation process through advanced sorting technologies

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation Future Ecology Co., Ltd. BIC CAMERA Inc. Veolia Japan GK digglue.Inc

Currently, the recycling of used small electronic devices aims to sort and recover metals with high resource value, such as iron, aluminum, and copper. As a result, the recycling rate of waste plastics from small household appliance is lower compared to the waste plastics recovered from the four items specified by the Household Appliance Recycling Law (refrigerators, air conditioners, washing machines, and televisions). Approximately 80% of these waste plastics are processed through thermal recycling, which reuses the heat generated from combustion as energy.

Bottle-to-Bottle Closed Loop Recycling Projects in 2022

Japan Soft Drink Association

Since 2020, beverage industry has implemented numerous activities to promote bottle-to-bottle recycling (Closed Loop Recycling) of PET Bottles. Our initiatives continue into 2022 where we continued promoting test events and educative activities focused on resource circulation and minimizing marine litter.

Recycling of used backing paper (release paper) for sticker and label products

Japan-Earth Conscious Labeling

The following members of the supply chain in this resource recycling project are the constituent members. (1) Companies using stickers and labels: Proper separation of release paper and proper shipping Intermediate treatment companies: Proper collection and transportation (3) Recyclers: Utilization of release paper as a resource (4) Base material manufacturing companies: Development and manufacture of base materials that are easy to recycle (5) Printing and processing companies: Adopt easy-to-recycle base materials, print, process, sell, and promote recycling.

A new resource circulation model for office plastic waste in Tokyo

Terrarem Group Co., Ltd.

Tokyo Metropolitan and M.M. Plastic, as a pioneering in plastic material recycling, are collaborating with waste generators such as Mitsubishi Estate, Mitsui Fudosan, and Tokyu Land are conducting demonstration project.

Bottle-to-Bottle Closed Loop Recycling Projects in 2021

Japan Soft Drink Association

In 2020, we implemented tests and educative activities with various stakeholders in Tokyo to promote bottle-to-bottle recycling, which means Closed Loop Recycling of PET Bottles.

Realization of a recycling-oriented society through solar power generation

Niimi Solar Company

Currently, various technologies are being used to recycle solar panels, but our "Solar Panel Pyrolysis Plant using Sakumoto’s Method" is the only technology in the world that can decompose organic matter without emitting carbon dioxide and extract high-purity materials from solar panels.

SORPLAS™, Sony's proprietary flame-retardant recycled plastic with up to 99% recycled material utilization rate

Sony Group Corporation

SORPLAS is the result of a project initiated at Sony Central R&D Laboratories in 1995, which embodies the company's strong desire “adding new value to waste.”

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.

Used Diaper Recycling Project

ZUIKO CORPORATION

We started activities regarding used diaper recycling systems in 2021 out of concern that diaper usage was continuouly growing and that incinerating or using landfills only create CO2 or harmful greenhouse gases such as methane.

Yokosuka recycle plant project

TBM Co., Ltd.

The Yokosuka recycling plant project started on August 30, 2021. The plant is scheduled to be operational in the fall of 2022.

Resource Recycling Project

NEION Film Coatings Corp． TOYOBO CO., LTD. Shionogi Pharma Co., Ltd. TOPPAN INFOMEDIA CO., LTD. Mitsui Bussan Chemicals ., LTD

A material called release paper is used for the label mount. This release paper is an indispensable material in the printing and molding processes, but in many cases it is removed and discarded before reaching the consumer.

Food Waste Recycling Solution

NTT BUSINESS SOLUTIONS Well Create Co., Ltd.

The Food Waste Recycling Solution is a solution service that contributes to the reduction of food loss and the promotion of food recycling. This service is provided nationwide by NTT BUSINESS SOLUTIONS (abbreviated as NTT-BS),

リサイクル技術開発・環境配慮設計によるマテリアルリサイクル率向上

Association for Electric Home Appliances Panasonic Corporation TOSHIBA CORPORATION Hitachi Global Life Solutions, Inc. Mitsubishi Electric Corporation SHARP CORPORATION Sony Corporation

A system for the collection and recycling by manufacturers(Panasonic, Toshiba, Hitachi GLS, Mitsubishi, Sharp, Sony, etc.) of four home appliances* handed over from retailers.

Complete Material Recycling System for Disposable Diapers

TOPPAN INC. TOTAL CARE SYSTEM Co. Sumitomo Heavy Industries Environment Co.,Ltd.

Until now, disposable diapers composed of composite materials, such as plastic and pulp, have been regarded as unsuitable for recycling, and thus, after use, have been positioned as waste plastic and incinerated. Currently, pulp is recycled as a raw material for building materials,

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.

Making New Bottles from Used Bottles Collaboration by consumers, local governments, and companies

Unilever Japan Kao Corporation Veolia Japan Group The Procter&Gamble Company of Japan Limited Lion Corporation

In Japan, many used containers of personal and home care products are not being recycled into new containers.

Returnable beer bottle collection project

Brewers Association of Japan ASAHI BREWERIES, LTD. Kirin Brewery Company, Limited Sapporo Breweries Limited Suntory Beer Ltd. ORION BREWERIES, LTD.

The five member companies of the Brewers Association of Japan (Asahi Breweries, Ltd., Kirin Brewery Company, Ltd., Sapporo Breweries Ltd., Suntory Beer Ltd., and Orion Breweries, Ltd.) mainly use returnable beer bottles for their bottled beer products sold in Japan.

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.

Utilization of IoT-linked electrically-assisted bicycles for sharing service

Panasonic Corporation

A business model is our “sharing service.” The service consists of bicycle parking areas

Bottle-to-Bottle Tokyo Project in 2020

Japan Soft Drink Association

Time Line: Conducted during November, 2020 to February, 2021

Announcement to achieve 50% Bottle-to-Bottle recycling by 2030

Japan Soft Drink Association

Achieve 50％Bottle-to-Bottle Horizontal Recycling of PET Bottles by 2030. (vs total PET resin usage in sales volume)

Japan Beverage Industry "Reduce" initaitives and results

Japan Soft Drink Association

Working together with Liaison Committee of Associations Promoting 3R and The Council for PET Bottle Recycling, the industry has reduced weight of each PET Bottle by 27.6％ in 2022 compared to 2004.

Bio-PP / PE dissemination activities

Iwatani Corporation

Production will start at Lyondell basell from 2019 Our handling started in 2021

FPCO Method Circular Recycling

FP Corporation

The reason why we started recycling food trays is that in the 1980s, there was a non-buying movement in the United States for the negative impact on the environment of plastic food containers of restaurant chains.

Launch study to support chemical recycling in Japan

Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.

BASF Japan and Mitsui Chemicals have started a collaborative study on June 1, 2021

Manufacture and sale of CfFA (Carbon-free Fly Ash): a concrete admixture that makes effective use of coal fly ash

Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd.

At the Ishinomaki Mill of Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd., the energy required for paper production is obtained from private power generation, and about 40,000 tons of coal ash is occured annually.

深刻化する廃プラスチック問題への貢献

Nippon Steel Corporation

With the aim of contributing to forming a circular economy through material recycling and reduction in energy consumption and CO2 emissions,

Life cycle assesment of steel product

Nippon Steel Corporation

We took the lead in developing a methodology to calculate the recycling effect of steel scrap into an international standard (ISO 20915) in cooperation with worldsteel,

鉄鋼スラグの有効活用

Nippon Steel Corporation

In the iron and steel-making process, over 600 kg of by-products, such as steel slag, dust, sludge, and used refractory bricks are generated for each ton of crude steel produced.

Komatsu's Global Component Recycling Initiatives (Global Reman Business)

Komatsu Ltd.

To provide customers worldwide with Reman (* 1) components, Komatsu has established two global bases, one in Indonesia and one in Chile.

Collection and battery 3R in Japan

TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION

So as to meet the increasing requests for collection of nickel-metal hybrid batteries from dealers and dismantling businesses associated with the increasing use of hybrid vehicles,