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 ...

Japan's Kamikatsu, a town of 1,500, achieved an 80% recycling rate by embracing a radical zero-waste policy. Residents meticulously sort waste into 45 categories, with initiatives like the Kurukuru ...

Japan has provided infectious waste management equipment to 15 hospitals, across all nine provinces, in line with an agreement reached with the previous Wickremesinghe-Rajapaksa government. The ...

Fumio Kaneko, cofounder and president of waste management company Daiei Kankyo. Last December, the company raised $315 million from an IPO in Tokyo Stock Exchange. One of Japan’s largest IPOs in 2022 ...

Japan's Nuclear Waste Management Organisation has begun the initial stage of assessing two municipalities in Hokkaido Prefecture for their suitability to host a final disposal facility for high-level ...

Japan’s lack of public trash cans often surprises visitors, but cultural norms and safety concerns explain why travelers carry their trash all day.

The fourth and largest shipment so far of high-level waste from the UK to Japan has been completed. All such waste, resulting from the reprocessing of used reactor fuel, should be returned from the UK ...