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May 25, 2022 Local News
Model Project for Plastic Waste Collection Started in Fukuoka City
To promote plastic waste recycling, Fukuoka City started a model project on May 23 to collect wash basins and buckets separately. Twenty items, including wash basins, buckets, hang...
Apr 5, 2022 Local News
Kyushu University Collaborates On Paper Waste into Potting Soil Product
Kyushu University and Ooishi Bussan Co., Ltd. developed a system to convert paper waste into potting soil. The two companies developed 20-litter packages of soil with the support o...
Apr 1, 2022 Local News
Fukuoka City Launches PET Bottle Recycling Project
Fukuoka City will launch a bottle-to-bottle plastic recycling program this April. Most of the PET bottles collected in Fukuoka City have been recycled into other products such as f...
Mar 22, 2022 Local News
Pietro Shifts to Environmentally Friendly Packaging
Fukuoka-based Pietro Co. Ltd. has announced the development of bottles made of plant-based materials. As part of the brand’s carbon-neutral effort, salad oil dressing products ship...
Feb 24, 2022 Local News
Kyuden Introduces Donation System For Green Projects
Kyushu Electric Power Co., Inc. (Kyuden) recently introduced a new rate system that incorporates a ¥300 monthly donation to a green project. The first phase of Kyuden’s ‘Mirai no M...
Feb 7, 2022 Local News
Fukuoka City To Use Underwater Drone for Ocean Waste Research
Fukuoka City intends to use an underwater drone to support marine studies. The initiative will increase the effectiveness of research on ocean waste and seafloor weathering by digi...
Feb 7, 2022 Local News
Fukuoka City Launches Green Next From Spring 2022
Fukuoka City kicks off its Fukuoka Green Next program from April 2022. Various efforts to revive the roles of local forests that occupy one-third of the city’s land area are to beg...
Dec 24, 2021 Local News
Fukuoka City Tests New Waste Separation System
Fukuoka City is considering a new waste separation system to boost plastics recycling. Trials would run in different city areas during the fiscal year of 2022 to see how effectivel...
Dec 21, 2021 Local News
Fukuoka City To Continue Operation of Hydrogen Station
Fukuoka City will acquire the government-owned hydrogen station in Chuo Ward. The facility was initially built in 2015 as a social trial for generating power from sewage sludge. Bu...
Dec 17, 2021 Local News
Suspicious Plastic Containers Wash Up On Shores Again
Suspicious plastic containers are washing up on the beaches of Kitakyushu again. Last winter, the city found a total of 111 containers that had Hangul and Chinese letters written o...