Akira Sakano
Founder & Director, Zero Waste Japan
Co-founder, Green innovation
Director & CSO, ECOMMIT Co.,Ltd.

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Our Current Linear Economy
Global waste is projected to increase 70% by 2050

Ref: World Bank (2018) What A Waste 2.0©Zero Waste Japan

Our Current Linear Economy
Our reliance on natural resource is increasing
In 2017, 100.6 billion tons of natural
resources were consumed.
Of which, recycled resources amounted to8.65 billion tons
Resource recycling rate decreased from
9.1% in 2015 to 8.5% in 2017
Extracted raw resources increased from84.4 billion tons in 2015 to92 billion tons in 2017
Ref:Circularity gap Report 2020
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Shifting to Circular Economy

Ref: Ellen MacArthur Foundation©Zero Waste Japan

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©Zero Waste JapanWaste Reduction and Resource Circulation in Municipalities
Kamikatsu Town, Tokushima Prefecture- Japan’s first municipality to declare Zero Waste Declaration

Achieved recycling rate of more than 80% with45 waste segregation categories. Both residents
and businesses have participated in itsimplementation for many years, but hasreached its limit for increasing recycling rate.

Various programs were implemented to create a "waste
reduction system" within the community. These
include reuse stores, upcycling workshops, bulk sales atrestaurants, and a point system to reward residents fortheir efforts.
©Zero Waste JapanWaste Reduction and Resource Circulation in Municipalities
Unnnan City, Shimane Prefecture- Unnnan Community Foundation and Circular-City Planning
Co-created common vision of the city with residents, then initiated implementing community-composts inall regions in the city with multi-generational learning activities. With these field experiences, given policy
feedback to municipal office and vice mayor who are leading the environmental policy of the city.

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Obuse Town, Nagano Prefecture- Creating holistic environmental policy: Zero Carbon and Zero Waste

Zero Waste being one of the 2 pillars of the environmental policy of the town, building the entire policy fromresearch, planning and their implementation. Now working on experimental implementation on effective
resource collection system and biodegradable resource circulation within the town.

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New initiative: Zero biodegradable Incineration platform

By 2030
We are aiming to achieve
Zero biodegradable
Incineration

Our Activities

Food Waste Recycling
Data Collection

Measurement Impact Analysis

Conference and Networking©Zero Waste Japan