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A database of circular projects in Yokohama. Filter by sector or circular principle.

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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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Beer the First

Beer the First turns near-discarded food into craft beer with character. From unsold bread to leftover grape pomace, each brew gives new value to ingredients that might otherwise be wasted. It’s a fun and tasty step toward a local circulation.

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the Sus-Sea Project

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.

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Sachiumi Heroes

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!

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Seyamitsu Lab

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.

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Yokohama Winery

Yokohama Winery produces red, white, and rosé wines in Yokohama. They contribute to the environment by delivering wine to neighboring communities on renewable energy bikes and reusing used wine bottles.

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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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StockBase

StockBase donates unneeded emergency supplies from companies to people in need. They circulate the foods and other items within the local community and reduce food waste.

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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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アクアポニックス

Aquaponics is a system of "circular organic agriculture" that crosses hydroponics and aquaculture. It minimizes resource circulation and promotes local consumption to rvitalize local communities.

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Web Iikamo Ichi

Web Iikamo Ichi is a web platform that offers a monthly marché online. You can find many Yokohama-made sustainable groceries and other products.

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Yokohama Blue Carbon

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.

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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.

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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…