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Resource recovery, reuse, industrial symbiosis, circular procurement, waste systems, and material transitions.
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Japan has selected two plastics demonstration projects, one targeting bioethanol-derived raw materials and another recycled material for electrical equipment. The decision supports different routes away from conventional fossil inputs while leaving commercial performance and emissions results to be established.
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Indonesia’s environment ministry has offered to connect Klungkung’s processed waste products with industrial buyers.
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Italy has extended expressions of interest for its circular advanced materials initiative to October 21.
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Mauá has opened another Ecoenel collection point, where separated materials become credits on electricity bills.
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Japan’s latest municipal survey shows wider lithium-ion battery collection alongside much narrower acceptance of swollen or deformed batteries.
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Japan has opened an equipment-support call for more reliable supplies of recycled materials, including important metal resources.
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NSW is consulting on mandatory stewardship for specified solar panels.
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Algeria wants to recover and reuse 60 percent of treated wastewater while expanding sanitation capacity by about 35 percent.
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Japan’s first review of its Fifth Fundamental Plan finds final disposal and circular-business growth broadly on track, while resource productivity, circular inputs, circular-use rates and public behavior need more work.
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Japan's Environment Ministry has selected a Koriyama demonstration that links carbon capture at a municipal waste facility with regional conversion and use, testing whether public infrastructure can anchor a local carbon-utilisation chain.
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