A database of circular projects in Yokohama. Filter by sector or circular principle.
The Sus-Sea Project brings sustainable seafood to a university cafeteria as a Japan’s first such initiative. By choosing these meals, students support responsible fisheries and learn how everyday food choices connect to ocean sustainability.
Sachiumi Heroes revives Yokohama’s coastal ecosystems through kelp farming. It is creating jobs, tackling climate change, and even turning seaweed into cookies and seasonings!
From kitchen waste to sustainable soap! Kurofune Soap turns used cooking oil and other discarded resources into beautiful, community-made soap—promoting a cleaner planet and cleaner hands.
Seyamitsu Lab is turning honey, flowers, and community into a circular future for Seya Ward.Discover how a local initiative is bringing people and nature closer—one bee at a time.
Hachi-Iku is a project that allows locals to be deeply involved with greenery through sustainable beekeeping. The park is pesticide-free, and multi-floral raw honey is safe for people and the environment.
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.
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.
The shared office built with thinned wood Yamakita machi in Kanagawa Prefecture. The office is based in the co-working space "mass x mass" in Naka-Ku, Yokohama, and is expanding to other areas.
Yokohama City, as “SDGs Future City,” leads the Yokohama Blue Carbon Project. It works on utilizing ocean resources and regenerating marine ecosystems and the local Fishing Industry.
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.
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.
