{"id":138400,"date":"2025-03-20T07:59:39","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T05:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/introducing-japans-first-zero-waste-town\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T07:59:39","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T05:59:39","slug":"introducing-japans-first-zero-waste-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/introducing-japans-first-zero-waste-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Japan\u2019s First Zero-Waste Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138400\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Kamikatsu is a town of around 1,400 people. Of its 42 square miles, 88.3% is swathed in verdant forest. What cleared land remains is farmed or inhabited. Citrus groves and rice fields dot the steep mountain slopes. Some of the roads are so narrow and winding that they make city slickers squirm in their seats. It is officially listed as one of Japan\u2019s 100 Most Beautiful Villages.<\/p>\n<p>But it is perhaps most famous for being the country\u2019s first zero-waste municipality, having achieved an 81% recycling rate by 2016\u2014a stark contrast to Japan\u2019s national average of 20%. Residents involved in the town\u2019s zero-waste activities are quick to point out that 45 categories makes for an impressive media soundbite, but that it\u2019s arbitrary from a practical point of view.<\/p>\n<p>But given that Kamikatsu suffers the same issue that all rural towns across Japan face\u2014a dwindling, aging population\u2014you could also see it as an existential question. Will this town exist in 20 or 30 years? Will there be enough people to hold the annual summer festival? Will the rice fields grow fallow with no one to tend them? How does the community survive going forward? The town had 6,263 residents in 1955. As of 2024, that number has dropped to 1,362 people, partly due to the loss of jobs that resulted from the collapse of the region\u2019s lumber industry in the \u201970s. The elderly comprise over 52% of its population: Around 50 people, mostly from this demographic, pass away each year.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/atmos.earth\/introducing-japans-first-zero-waste-town\/\">Atmos<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/introducing-japans-first-zero-waste-town\/\">Introducing Japan\u2019s First Zero-Waste Town<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[575,893,18280,1125],"class_list":["post-138400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-environmental-news-en","tag-japan","tag-kamikatsu","tag-zero-waste"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}