After the defeat of Germany and Japan in World War II, many of their industrial plants and infrastructure were demolished. This gave the two nations a serious devotion to rebuilding their capacities.

The expansion marks a significant milestone in strengthening safe, sustainable, and system-based solid waste management for ...

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 ...

An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team of experts has concluded that the 70-year decommissioning programme of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), including long term management of ...

Sweden's Studsvik and Kobe Steel of Japan have agreed to extend their existing cooperation by forming a joint venture to provide radioactive waste management solutions to the Japanese nuclear industry ...

China is ranked among the countries that produce the most waste per capita. According to the World Bank, China produced a waste per capita of 1311.8 Kg in 2018. China relies on incineration and ...

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 ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan has a plastic problem. In a country where cleanliness and neat packaging have long been considered good service, almost everything, from single bananas to individual pieces of ...

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 ...