In a 2019 Washington Post article, “Japan wraps everything in plastic.Now it wants to fight against plastic pollution,” Simon Dener remarks that the amount of recycled plastic waste is quite low in ...

Japan is one of the world's biggest plastic waste producers, thanks to its love of packaging - but a week of going plastic-free in Tokyo reveals surprising solutions.

Enter Japan, pioneering an approach to plastic recycling that could revolutionize how we deal with this pervasive problem. The rising tide of plastic waste The scale of our plastic consumption is ...

Researchers reveal key factors behind Japan's plastic waste removal rates in rivers. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 11, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 12 / 241212120014.htm.

By using creativity and persistence, the packaging department team at Yamagata, Japan, managed to reduce their waste plastic material by 11 percent. Tuesday, 02 January 2024 12:17 GMT.

Plastic litter recovery from rivers is a rather understudied topic in Japan. To tackle this knowledge gap, researchers conducted an in-depth analysis of plastic removal from over 100 important ...

There is a glaring lack of tracking for global recycling. Poor waste management is deeply connected to climate change, ...

Researchers in Japan have developed a plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours, offering up a potential solution for a modern-day scourge polluting oceans and harming wildlife.

In 2023, Japan alone exported about 50 million kilogrammes (50,000 tonnes) of plastic waste to Thailand. These imports were often poorly handled, with many factories burning the waste instead of ...

Since the first synthetic plastic was invented in 1907, ... Japan Tel: +81 3 5829 5900 Fax: +81 3 5829 5919 Email: [email protected] ©2025 GPlusMedia Inc. Stacked plastic in a Japanese recycling ...