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.

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 ...

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 ...

Japan unveiled a draft legal framework to tighten recycling rules for end-of-life solar panels, aiming to prepare for a surge in waste that could reach as much as 500,000 metric tonnes a year in the ...