Ever wonder where all of the waste in Japan goes once it's collected?

Part 1: Does Japan have a plastic problem    • Does Japan have a plastic problem?  

Sources:
- How to sort garbage guide for foreign residents https://www.city.saga.lg.jp/main/5059...
- Saga city garbage collection rules https://www.city.saga.lg.jp/main/3027...
- Kamikatsu zero waste town https://www.nippon.com/en/guide-to-ja...
- Act on Promotion of Resource Circulation for Plastics https://www.meti.go.jp/english/press/...
- Oslo leading by example: world’s first CO2 capture and storage on waste incinerator to become reality in 2026 https://bellona.org/news/ccs/2022-03-...
- CCS pilot phase successfully completed on Norwegian waste-to-energy planthttps://www.thechemicalengineer.com/n...
- CCUS: Could this be the best-kept secret of climate solutions?    • CCUS: Could this be the best-kept sec...  
- Edogawa incineration plant https://goo.gl/maps/rEKaTmMrCdWkf9bY7
- Wasteland: Tokyo grows on its own trash https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/201...
- UN Environment Programme: Waste-to-Energy Incineration https://www.iges.or.jp/en/publication...
- The incinerator and the ski slope tackling waste https://www.bbc.com/news/business-498...
- Understanding the carbon impacts of Waste to Energy incineration https://zerowasteeurope.eu/2020/03/un...
- Energy Recovery from the Combustion of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) https://www.epa.gov/smm/energy-recove...
- BURNING TRASH IS A CLIMATE DISASTER https://www.no-burn.org/zero-incinera...
- What’s Wrong with Burning Our Trash, Anyway? https://www.clf.org/blog/whats-wrong-...
- CLEAN Authority of Tokyo List of Icineration plant facilities http://www.union.tokyo23-seisou.lg.jp...


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