Japan, famously, has very few public trash cans. On the other hand, when out and about you’ll come across quite a few recycling boxes, both next to drink vending machines and in spaces like parks and ...

Professor Chris McMorran teaches Japanese studies at the National University of Singapore, where his work focuses on serious and important topics like labor, gender and marginalized communities. But ...

Japan recently established an automobile recycling system featuring what it calls a groundbreaking scheme for collecting fees from consumers, but uncertainty remains over how the resulting mountain of ...

A planned 2026 law will make firms responsible for collecting and reusing mobile batteries and other small devices, aligning ...

Recycling food scraps back into food you can eat sounds disgusting at first. But I'm sure everyone hearing about Japan's way of tackling waste would want to know how the process works and how the ...

Rubicon Technologies LLC, a digital marketplace for waste and recycling and provider of innovative software-based solutions for businesses and governments worldwide, has established a long-term, ...

A worker at a recycling facility in northern Japan made a rich discovery. The worker was sorting trash in Sapporo, a prefecture of Hokkaido, when he found wads of cash worth 10 million yen, or ...

Japan throws away massive amounts of still edible food even as rice prices soar. In a recently published book, journalist Ide ...

PureCycle Technologies Inc. is attracting more attention for the company's polypropylene recycling technology from Asia, this time signing on with a major company based in Japan. Orlando, Fla.-based ...

Kamikatsu, the first town in Japan to create almost no waste, built a recycling center out of trash. It's constructed from donated windows, remnant wood, plastic containers, and other unwanted items.