ANOR all members:
We would like to send Newsletter to you as follows and we sincerely wish you and yourfamily a Happy and Prosperous New Year.
Best regards,Y. Maruyama
ANOR Newsletter by JORA (Dec, 2004)
1.

Event(!) International Conference on Organics Recycling in Akita (ISOR2004)
From Oct 5 to Oct 7, 2004, ISOR was held at Akita University, Akita campus and 18
speakers from 8countries made lectures on organics recycling.
During three days, more than 200 people from 10countries were participated and ISOR
was highly appreciated by audience as it was very active and useful meeting.
(2) ANOR Steering Committee Meeting
Together with ISOR, this meeting was held on Oct 6, and following items were discussedand approved.
(a) Revise of rule: To add private companies to membership.
(b) Approval of new members: 1organazation from Nepal, Thailand and New Zealand,
2organzations from Australia were approved as members. As of Oct 6, members are28organaizatios from 14countries and regions.
(c)

ANOR activities in the future were discussed among Steering Committee
Members:Dr. Chino, JORA; Dr. Xu, Jejiang University, China; Mr. Gillespie,
Department of Environment and Conservation, New South Wales, Australia; Dr.
Abdullah, Bogor University, Indonesia; Dr. Chung, Korean Organic Resource
Recycling Association and observers from ORBIT of Germany, The Ohio State
University of USA, Catholic University of Korea, University of Sao Paulo, Benquet
State University of Philippines, Department of Agriculture of Thailand andMinistry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan.

They exchanged opinions about following proposal of Zero Waste in Asia by Mr. Gerry
Gillespie, Department of Environment and Conservation, New south Wales of Australiaand agreed that his proposal was important and worthwhile to continue further study.
(please refer to the attached minutes of this meeting)
Quote:
Inter-regional nutrient dynamics and sustainability
Securing the sustainability of Australia-Japan food exports

Rationale
Over the past 200 years Australia has been a major exporter of clean food to world
markets with the sustained supply of such food becoming increasingly critical to foodsecurity, particularly to Asian trading partners such as Japan.
However neither the production nor dependence on this food is sustainable in that;•The long-term production capacity of Australian agriculture is being limited bythe export and non return of critical soil nutrients, particularly phosphorus andthe resultant degradation of Australian agricultural soils and productivity.

•The excessive release of these nutrients as food effluents will increasingly leadto the eutrification and degradation of many Japanese urban environments.

Consequently it is essential that both trading partners address these threatening
nutrient impacts if they are to secure their long term food and environmental interests.
Essentially strategies need to be implemented through which food nutrients can be
captured from Japanese effluent streams and economically re-spread over Australian
agricultural lands to sustain their food production and export capacity and stability.
To meet this challenge, the following project aims to demonstrate how leading
bio-conversion and by-product technologies can be used to safely and harvest such
nutrients from the Japanese effluent streams and economically return and redistributethem over Australian farms so as to secure a sustainable food system.
The project is proposed as a joint initiative of Zero Waste Australia and the Asian
Network of Organic Recyclers and will aim to provide the analyses, proof of concept
demonstrators and commercialization strategies to enable the wider consideration ofthese systems options at bilateral policy and commercial levels. Specifically the projectwill;•

Map the nutrient dynamic and consequences of the current and proposed foodtrade and recycling proposals as a basis for securing sustainable food systems.

•

Jointly examine and develop the potential of leading effluent bio-conversion andstockfeed production and recycling technologies to address this challenge.

•Evaluate the practical performance potential of these technologies and systems
through demonstration prototype projects based at Wagga Wagga Australia.

•Evaluate the economic potential and commercialization strategies for thebilateral adoption of such technologies, and•

Design and specify practical concept options through which such technologies
and systems could be introduced in Australia and Japan to help securesustainable bilateral food systems and relationships.

The project has the potential not only to address major pending environmental
degradation crises from nutrient depletion and eutrification in Australia and Japan
respectively but also demonstrate the potential of leading eco-technologies andsystems re-design concepts to secure sustainable bilateral food relationships.
ActionZero Waste Australia is currently developing a major waste bio-conversion projectbased at Wagga Wagga Australia, to refine and demonstrate how sucheco-technologies can be optimally integrated to convert major regional waste
problems into high value commercial products. As this demonstration project canalso serve in analyzing the potential of similar technologies and designs for
harvesting and recycling nutrients within the Australia-Japan food systems it is
proposed that the Asian Network of Organic Recyclers links into this leaddemonstrator to enable specialists from both countries to jointly undertake thisAustralia-Japan nutrient recycling analysis and project.
To initiate such consideration and action it is proposed that;•Discussions on the concept and project be held in Japan in October 2004•

To enable support for a joint project to be considered.

•So as to enable joint investigations to be undertaken as part of the Wagga
Wagga demonstration project over 2005-6.

Based on the successful outcomes from these lead joint activities further
consideration can be given to options for;
•Undertaking further research and development work on these concepts.

•Planning the wider commercial extension and implementation of suchbio-conversion and nutrient recycling systems in Australia and Japan.

•Securing appropriate inter government and inter industry arrangements tofacilitate the successful adoption of such nutrient harvesting/recycling
strategies to secure the sustainable bilateral food relationships.

Further information relating to these technologies and projects are available
from Zero Waste Australia.
Unquote(3) International Symposium on Cycling and Utilization of Organic Wastes.
Following ISOR, ANOR Steering Committee members were participated to thissymposium which was held from Oct. 9 to 11 at Hangzhou, China.
At this symposium, 20speakes from 10countries made lectures and they were highly
appreciated by audience.
2.

Information(1) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE by Earth Policy InstituteDecember 15, 2004

The following is a section from Chapter 3, Moving Up the Food Chain
Efficiently, from "Outgrowing the Earth: The Food Security Challenge in
anAge of Falling Water Tables and Rising Temperatures" by Lester R. Brown,which will be published February 3, 2005.
For a complete Table of Contents
http://www.earth‑policy.org/Books/Out/Contents.htm(2) Chicken Manure treatment and application possibility in Asia
This event is sponsored by the Asia Pro Eco Program which is one of initiatives by theEuropean Union designed to promote mutual benefit and understanding between theMember States and Asiaand

it focuses on thetransfer of sophisticated,environmental-friendly chicken manure treatment and application technologies to Asia:
Workshop in Hamburg: 19/01/05-20/01/05
Conference in Kuala Lumpur: March 2006
We are going to dispatch a speaker to this workshop according to the request from
ANOR member: Mr. Ten Lee Chong of Putra University, Malaysia.
(www.tuhh.de/aws/asia-pro-eco)