Vietnamese man Quang Minh had lived in Japan for just three months but had more than 10 run-ins with the police over noise complaints, his first major culture shock. He moved to Japan in 2023 when he ...

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 ...

There is one of those fabulous stories that shows just how wacky the Japanese are in the NY Times today. Since Japan has very little land available for garbage dumping, many towns and villages sort ...

A worker at a recycling facility in northern Japan made a rich discovery. The worker was sorting trash in Sapporo, a prefecture of Hokkaido, when he found wads of cash worth 10 million yen, or ...

When China banned the import of used plastics in late 2017, the move threw recycling programs worldwide into turmoil. China was the world’s top importer of plastic waste. Cities worldwide had fallen ...

Multidevice system is sorting light packaging in Yokosuka, Japan. The Stadler plant installed in Yokosuka, Japan, will separate plastics from each other and from LIMEX, an emerging packaging material.