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SDGs Locker
SDGs Locker addresses food waste through an unmanned vending system that extends sales beyond store hours. A practical example of circular action embedded in everyday life in Yokohama.
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Coffee Grounds Art
Used coffee as a canvas? Discover Coffee Grounds Art, where leftover coffee is reborn as beautiful artwork and creative workshops. From waste to wonder, find how circular ideas are brewing in Yokohama.
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Kururi Works
Kururi works is an upcycling studio with the concept of “take discarded things and reborn them with value.” It is based in Kanazawa ward run by Takematsu Co., Ltd..
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Kanazawa School for Special Needs Education
The school is promoting career education and waste reduction project to build a sustainable society. It is actively interacting with citizens and businesses to contribute to the local community from the aspect of welfare.
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Yokohama Bay Sheraton
Yokohama Bay Sheraton, one of the famous hotels in Yokohama, runs projects to reduce food waste, create a food loop, and promote local produce and local consumption.
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FOOD LOOP
FOOD LOOP is a project to recycle food waste run by Yokohama Beer. To create a recycling loop, they compost the malt and other food waste, grow vegetables, and serve them at the restaurant.
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Craft Beer Paper
Craft beer paper is a recycled paper made from malt waste. kitafuku Inc. works with local breweries and restaurants to turn waste into valuable paper products to achieve up-cycling.
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Kawamura Laboratory (Yokohama National University)
Izuru Kawamura and Noriko Kanai team, Yokohama National university, successfully derives cellulose nanofibers from spent coffee grounds(SCGs). This study shows that SCGs cellulose nanofibers can be used as alternative resources and will potentially contribute to the development of sustainability.
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Food Bank Yokohama
Food Bank Yokohama is a non profit organization that collects the food that would not be used or would be discarded along the food supply chain and distributes it to homeless people and welfare facilities in Yokohama.
Fashion
The Circular Economy Plus T-shirt
The Circular Economy Plus T-shirt Project aims to make sustainable T-shirts using waste plastic bottles discarded in the area. The project is initiated by the Yokohama branch of NPO greenbird, Japan Environment Planning Inc., Okawa Printing Co., Ltd., and a designer from Yokohama.
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The Kanagawa Up Cycle Consortium
The Kanagawa Up Cycle Consortium is established in collaboration with Kanagawa Prefecture and TBM Co., Ltd. that develops, manufactures and sells a new material “LIMEX.” The aim is to promote a circular economy through up-cycling that utilizes LIMEX and to realize a circular town development.
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SDGs Yokohama Kanazawa Living Lab
SDGs Yokohama Kanazawa Living Lab works on the circular economic agriculture project which makes use of the eelgrass (seaweed that grows in the sea) as fertilizer, grows vegetables such as chili at local farms and creates a unique seasoning by associating with a local elementary…
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Yokohama Wood Straw Project
The project produces wooden straws made of wood thinned from the water source forest in Doshi Village, Yamanashi Prefecture, which supplies water with citizens in Yokohama and those straws are handmade by people with disabilities Yokohama.