Japan Soft Drink Association
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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.
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)
Bottle-to-Bottle Tokyo Project in 2020
Japan Soft Drink Association
Time Line: Conducted during November, 2020 to February, 2021
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.
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.
Educative activities to promote closed-loop recycling of PET bottles in collaboration with companies and an industry association
Japan Soft Drink Association Japan Airport Terminal Co.,Ltd. Tokyo International Air Terminal Corporation
The collection of PET bottles can be broadly categorized into 'Households related route collection', where they are discharged from homes, and 'Business related route collection', where they are collected from offices, factories and next to vending machines. PET bottles collected from households are easily recycled by sorting them into three parts segregation recycling (caps, labels and bottles), while bottles collected by 'Business related route' are often contaminated with foreign particles and not sorted into three parts segregation.
Japan Soft Drink Association Value statement toward circular economy
"To be the global leader in Circular and Ecological Economies by realizing recycling and creation of PET bottles by maximizing resources already available on earth surface"
Strength of Japan Beverage Industry in realizing Circular Economy
・Agreed and implemented voluntary design guideline (as sustainability conscious guideline) of PET bottles in 1992.
・Worked together withcentral and local government in promoting recycling of PET bottles based on the Law for Promotion of Sorted Collection and Recycling of Containers and Packaging that was put into effect from 1995.
・Mono material plastic is easier to recycle. PET bottles are made from mono material called polyethylene terephthalate, which gives advantage to recycling.Recycling technologies are also expected to evolve dramatically in the coming years that will further provide recyclability advantage to PET bottles.
・The industry is not only committed in recycling of PET bottles, but also focused on ensuring reduction efforts are made to the best extent. PET bottles are now 24.8% lighter in weight compared to that in 2004.
・With all the above efforts made by the industry, Japan is proud to state that we are one of the leading countries in used PET bottle collection and recycling rate. Used PET bottle collection rate is 93.0% and PET bottle recycling rate is 85.8%. (2019)
Specific Sustainability Targets stated by the Japan Soft Drink Association
・100% efficient use of used PET bottles by 2030 (declared in 2018)
・50% Bottle-to-Bottle recycling by 2030 (declared in 2021)
Initiative Promotion and Management Structure
Initiatives are promoted and managed with the member companies under the Japan Soft Drink Association platform. Specifically, Sustainability Committee, Vending Machine Committee, 100% Efficient Use Committee, etc., are set within Japan Soft Drink Association to drive the initiatives.
Japan Soft Drink Association also work closely with other sustainability and recycling related organizations to maximize our efforts, such as The Japan Containers and Packaging Recycling Association, The Council for PET Bottle Recycling, Plastic Packaging Recycling Council, etc..