Plastic pollution is an ever-growing problem in today's world, as most societies have become overly dependent on plastics for packaging, medical supplies, and general goods. Plastic litter ...

TOKYO >> Marine waste that has drifted from other Asian countries is causing problems in prefectures along the Sea of Japan. Intergovernmental negotiations held in Switzerland in August sought to ...

A Japanese consortium is now testing a 100 kW fuel cell system in Tokyo. The system uses green hydrogen and waste plastic hydrogen to provide heat to an industrial building. The demonstration aims to ...

Garbage sorting is a well established ritual in Japan that few question, despite the time and effort involved. A typical resident of a major city has Mondays and Thursdays as options to take ...

The World Bank’s Tokyo Development Learning Center (TDLC), in collaboration with the Indonesia Local Service Delivery and Improvement Project (LSDP) task team, organized a five-day exposure mission to ...

On weekday evenings in Japan’s Yokohama, commuters filing out of Kanazawa-Bunko Station may soon pause at new vending machines that offer an unusual deal: bags of pastries and bread, marked down by ...

Austria-based shredding equipment manufacturer Lindner-Recyclingtech has entered into a sales partnership with Ryohshin Co. Ltd. of Toyama, Japan. Ryohshin will assume responsibility for selling ...

Plastic pollution is a growing problem in Japan, prompting cleanup efforts to recover plastic litter from water bodies. However, research on recovery rates from different river basins remains limited.