Tomra Japan Co. Ltd., a joint subsidiary of Japan’s Sumitomo Corp. and Tomra Systems ASA of Norway, has begun a new recycling center system in Japan for collecting and recycling PET plastic bottles ...

There are concerns that supply of naphtha may become scarce due to the situation in the Middle East. Read more at ...

To help prevent foul odors emitting from trash cans, a Japanese company is selling trash cans that freeze garbage. Nakanishi Kinzoku Kogyo has designed a product called “Clean Box” that stores garbage ...

Japan has long managed to keep its streets spotless despite having no trash cans in sight, but cities are now turning to “smart” bins as tourist numbers — and the amount of garbage — surges. This week ...

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 ...

Billions of dirty diapers end up buried or burned every year in Japan—more from seniors than babies—but a recycling breakthrough has given them a new lease on life, one hot mess at a time. A pilot ...

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 ...

TOKYO — Improved technology has led to a significant rise in textile recycling programs in Japan, according to a new study. Every year in Japan an estimated two million metric tons, or 4.4 billion ...

Japanese fans added a layer of goodwill to the 2022 World Cup in Qatar when they cleaned up a stadium after a contest their team did not compete in. After the event’s opening game between Qatar and ...