Green Plastic as an eco-material in Europe

Gradually the penetration of European consumer goods manufacturers is taking a big helm in the use of plant-derived plastics and recycled plastics. In the Japan, there is excessive coverage of the efforts of the de-oil-based plus chick about the drinking straw and the container etc. which are mass consumption and a large amount of waste in the food service industry. It seems that the clue is finally opened, but in Europe overseas, the material changes in consumer goods, The efforts of the oil-based plastics have already begun to move in earnest. <!--more--> For example Denmark major toy manufacturers have introduced plant-derived polyester products, which are made from sugarcane for the first time in the company. We are currently selling Lego block plants from plants in the form of grass and trees for a limited time, but the policy is to expand it to all products. In addition, the sneaker manufacturer Adidas is not using the new material from plants, but rather crisis it with recycled materials from polyester materials. We sold 100 pairs sneakers with recycled polyester for 17 years. It is a full-scale switching policy in 24 years. By the way, about 40% of clothing is used for recycled goods. "The cost is one to two percent higher, but the priority is to reduce the environmental impact" is practiced in the products sold. The tendency to choose products and invest in the consumer, the manufacturer, and the investor based on the consideration of the environment is spread before. It is said that it will be possible to reuse and to recover all plastic by 30 years.

How to reuse a betting ticket 1998.10.15

At the Japan Central Racing Association, we developed a technology to process off-ticket tickets to ballpoint pens. The ticket is finely pulverized and made from a solid mixture of plastic resin and one-to-one, a ballpoint pen can be one from four betting tickets. The prototype was immediately exchanged for the ticket of the clean campaign at Tokyo Racetrack on October 10 and 11. The total number of betting tickets issued in 1997 amounted to approximately 890 million, and the total weight was about 800 tons.

The return of Minamata disease - Marine pollution of plastic waste becomes serious 2

increase 500 billion copies a year. The pet bottle is consumed one million per minute as a beverage container. In developed countries, the aim is to stop using plastic straws and to improve recycling, but these disposable products are only 9%. Efforts have been made to reduce disposable plastics over and over again, but the status quo continues to increase rather than decrease. The shopping bag used in the convenience store has increased recently, too. Though it is a developing country to put out a lot of plastic garbage, China which has imported the waste plastic of the developed country up to now also started the restriction. In addition to the measures of only one country in the developed countries, as well as global warming measures, it is now being demanded by the world-wide approach. From the conventional petroleum-based plastic as a part of the plastic waste measures the creation chance of new industry of green PLA, the movement of promoting the use of paper and biodegradable plastic (green plastic) derived from natural plants has come out. In the development of new materials, Japan of the world's top runners, material development makers are facing a big business opportunity. Eco-friendly green plastic technology has already been seen as standby. The scale of GDP (gross national product) competing on the extension of human desires is at a marginal value. There were countries that had previously cut down tropical forests and exported timber to expand their GDP. On the other hand, countries that have reduced green and forest resources have long stalled in the country's power. We are now seeking to break away from the conventional supremacy of GDP.

Re-commercialization rate is 50 to 60% 1999.04.15

The Committee of the Ministry of Health and Welfare, which is considering the standards of the consumer electronics recycling law, decided to set the re-commercialization rate to 50% to 60% in weight. Air conditioner 60%, brown tube TV 55%, refrigerator and washing machine 50%, the target substance for the time being, iron, aluminum, copper, four kinds of glass. As for plastics, it is judged that it is difficult to recycle at present. It is also prescribed by cabinet order in May after the Life Environment Council Committee on April 20.

Re-commercialization rate is 50 to 60% 1999.04.15

The Committee of the Ministry of Health and Welfare, which is considering the standards of the consumer electronics recycling law, decided to set the re-commercialization rate to 50% to 60% in weight. Air conditioner 60%, brown tube TV 55%, refrigerator and washing machine 50%, the target substance for the time being, iron, aluminum, copper, four kinds of glass. As for plastics, it is judged that it is difficult to recycle at present. It is also prescribed by cabinet order in May after the Life Environment Council Committee on April 20.

Ocean Purification Business Expanding①

<A variety of organisms from Japan cross the sea and have been in various parts of the world. >

Occasionally, it is reported the danger of foreign species such as the hiali and poison spiders that came from abroad in TV and the newspaper, but is not known unexpectedly on the other hand, a variety of organisms of the Japan cross the Sea, In each country, there are few cases that are causing the destruction of ecological systems and industrial activities.

Cross-border foreign species Mondai has become increasingly serious as globalization of trade spreads. Major blow to the ecosystem and water industry of the sea in recent years, marine pollution by waste plastic, such as radioactive water Runaway, but is calling the topic as international news, it has been seen as a problem from the past is a variety of biological destruction of the sea and marine and water industry damage and the like. New Zealand Among the fish farms in the South Island, it is said that the Japan seaweed damage is not unusual. "The mussels that I raised with great pains are ruined" and the voice of the criticism is constant. As of 2017, the survey is spreading damage throughout the country. Brown seaweed from Japan is hanging around the mussels in aquaculture. The mussels will not be able to consume seawater, and it may be difficult to ship because of suffocation or poor growth. I hear that native species of Japan other than wakame are rampaging in other areas. In the United States, "scum" and "Oohari Ali" and made in Japan are very active.

Plant-derived bioplastic②

The use of forest resources is growing as an industry, and the demand for forest-related resources is increasing from the securing of new energy resources to the world. In the Japan, energy-related thermal use and power generation utilization of forest and woody biomass (lumber residue, felling, pruning wood, etc.) widely distributed nationwide are carried out in various places. Overseas, the amount of the production of the bioethanol (cellulose as a raw material) of the oil alternative of the plant origin has increased comparatively. In the Japan, the production of BA-ethanol, which uses forests and woody-based cellulose as raw materials, has begun in the demonstration phase.

On the other hand, the bio-plastic as the eco-materiel use of the forest resource has already begun production as part of the member of the electric machine and the precision equipment. The research of the new material and eco-material "cellulose nanofibers" (CNF) of the use of Bioprestik is rapidly expanding plant, it became a concrete product is Bioprestik. In eco-material development, the world's top Japan has already begun to be used in electronic equipment and automotive related materials as a reinforcing plestik, in addition to disposable diapers and ballpoint pens. The main ingredient of this plant fiber is a robust structure, such as reinforced concrete, and the strength of one-fifth of the steel is five times higher than that. Moreover, because it is carbon neutral (not emitted CO2 into the atmosphere) from a renewable plant, it also leads to suppression of global warming. The source of the raw material is the forest and the primary industry. It will become an opportunity of new industry creation, and it is a barrel material in the world of pure domestic for the forest country and the Japan. The commercialization and commercialization of Bioplestik is steadily expanding.

Plant-derived bioplastic①

A variety of forest-derived Planticek is now in production. Resources that depend and import a lot of resources overseas Japan small country. Fossil fuels, such as petroleum, which are highly depleted. Many resources are used for price hikes, political tools, and in times of difficulty in securing the security of resources. Currently, the proposition demanded by Japan is the development of the pure domestic resources that can be procured in the country. With 70% of the country's land, a wide variety of initiatives are being made to utilize forests that are left unused as resources.

The stepping is the development of bio-plastic applications from the forest. 　

Japan is the world's leading forest country. It is said that the ratio of the forest area in the land area is "forest rate", and the forest rate is 67% and 2/3 of the country is a forest, and this ratio is the second highest after Finland in the advanced country Japan. In a word, Japan is the world's leading forest country. About half of these are natural forests, 20% are artificial forests, and other 30% are composed of non-standing trees (forest The tree is not erected) and Bamboo Grove. However, Japan is one of the leading timber importer, and the Japan timber self-sufficiency rate is about 30%. The current situation is that about 70% of the wood used is dependent on imports. By the way, tropical plywood is the world's largest importer, and it is possible that sustainable rainforest timber is being used to break the use of sustainable materials that have been protected from the 2016 international NGO and 44 organizations to the related facilities of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is also a fact that there is a high warning. The idea of using sustainable materials has been carried over with Beijing, London and Rio, but remains marked with a question mark at the Tokyo Olympics.

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●A variety of environmentally friendly services.

It is said that the environmental and health efforts of the Japan service industry are far behind compared to the West. There are only seven hotels that have been certified as Eco Mark. However, unrelated accommodations that are not livery the official ECO Mark certification are rapidly attracting attention. The accommodation has been born in various places to take the eco-trend and to put the foot on a sustainable management. In the hotel opened in the center, you can set a lot of greening area on the site, the use of old wood beds, recycled bicycles, and food loss to reduce the amount of ingenuity (devised to put out without peeling the organic carrot) and various. At a hotel in Kawasaki City, a disposable toothbrush and other waste plastic is made into solid fuel, and the electricity is taken out from there, and the story served about 30% of the power consumption of the hotel. Among the guests, "I would like to support such management, whether it is an effort to devise environmentally friendly in the place where there are a lot of inn which tries to attract customers by price competition on TV. It is not to be overlooked that the voice of "green living person" who says "it wants to contribute to the society to the extent that I can do is increasing".

●Creation of a new business on the axis of the environment. 

The US-Trump Republican regime's decline in environmental policy has continued to recede. In a CBS News interview on December 14, Trump said, "I don't know if climate change is due to human activity. I don't want to rob millions of jobs, like the coal industry. The LDP Abe administration is also akin to keeping pace with playing cards. The main theme of environmental issues is to use the phrase "realizing a sustainable society" as a word that inflame the traditional GDP (gross national product). However, it is the beginning of the development of the eco current and the new work for smart people and the industry as the action of this eco-hotel no longer. Environmental business is nothing more than a new business development on the axis of the environment.

Meeresverschmutzung durch Plastikmüll wird ernst 1 - Weltweite Rückkehr der Minamata-Krankheit

Die Plastikverschwendung hat sich in die Meeresverschmutzung ausgebreitet und ist ein neues globales Umweltproblem. Die Europäische Union hat ein Verbot der Verwendung von Einweg-Kunststoffprodukten bis 2030 auf den Weg gebracht. Auch der Gipfel der wichtigsten sieben Länder (G7) las die Diskussion.

Jedes Jahr erodieren etwa 8 Millionen Tonnen Plastikmüll, die in jedem Land produziert werden, das Meer, und die negativen Auswirkungen auf Organismen und Ökosysteme werden durch mikroskopische Partikel verschärft, die durch Wellenkraft und UV-Strahlen, die weniger als 5 Millimeter in Mikrokunststoffen sind, zersetzt werden.

Ungünstige Auswirkungen auf ernste Meeresfrüchte. Die Meeresverschmutzung durch Alt-und Plastik hat jetzt nichts begonnen. In den 1970er-Jahren gab es viele Fälle, in denen Seevögel nicht mit Fischfäden fliegen konnten oder die Schildkröte versehentlich Plastikstücke verschluckte und starb. Als Problem galt der "Pacific Garbage belt", der in der zweiten Hälfte der 1990er Jahre Plastikmüll durch die Meeresströmungen ansammeln konnte. Es heißt, das Gebiet sei viermal so groß wie das Land in Japan. Auf dem G7-Gipfel, der im Juni dieses Jahres in Kanada stattfand, wurde die "Marine Plastic Charter" verabschiedet, die numerische Ziele zur Reduzierung von Plastikmüll im Ozean enthielt.

Übrigens hat die japanische Regierung die Unterzeichnung dieser Charta mit der Regierung der Vereinigten Staaten erlebt. Die Ergebnisse der Umfrage des Global Economic Forums zeigen, dass rund 8 Millionen Tonnen Plastikmüll in den Ozean fließen. Es heißt, dass im Meer über 150 Millionen Tonnen Plastikschutt schwimmen. Wird dieser Zustand vernachlässigt, warnt er davor, dass die Gesamtmenge an Meeresfrüchten bis 2050 überschritten wird. Sie sagen, dass 90 Prozent des Mülls, der in tieferen als 6000 Metern gefunden wurde, Einweg-Plastiktüten und Plastikflaschen waren. Das Schlimmste ist, dass diese Plastikmüll-Mikrokunststoffe schädliche Chemikalien aufnehmen. Die Schadstoffe werden im Körper durch den Verzehr von Plankton und Meeresfrüchten angesammelt und verdichtet. Es scheint, als sei es verzweifelt, einen schlechten Einfluss auf das Lebewesen zu haben, auch auf den Menschen in der Nahrungskette. Das ist die weltweite Rückkehr der Minamata-Krankheit.

An environmental consultants from United Kingdom 1999.06.15

Three years ago, when Japan companies were increasing their interest in environmental ISO, the environmental consultants from United Kingdom said they would this. "When we think about the improvement of the environment within factories and offices, first of all, our efforts to prevent air pollution are very advanced, and there is no curtain for us to come out Japan." In the case of Japan, in the midst of severe anti-pollution measures, the prevention technology of excellence was acquired compared with other countries. He says, "not only Japan, but the business related to air pollution prevention in Asia is impossible from the beginning. In a word, "air" is held from the beginning to the Japan ".

It was strange to say. Afterwards, he devised the consulting related to water treatment to the municipality and the factory of Japan. However, the result in the Japan seems to have been one now. The reason is that non-competitive dealings are bulrush. On the other hand, I heard that it achieved considerable results in Asia. One day, I learned that in the survey material of the OECD (Economic Development Cooperation Organization), the impetus for the pollution and environmental efforts in developing countries would be one guideline for the country's GDP. When the GDP 2000 dollar was achieved, it was the one of stepping on the order of the water supply, drainage, sewage treatment, the waste, and the atmosphere when the effort began in order of the top, bottom, drainage, and waste, and it became GDP 15000 dollars.

He is now actively proposing "environmental accounting" in Japan, while he began consulting for land evaluation in the factory. The idea is to investigate and analyze soil contamination and to apply environmental standards to the real estate valuation of land in the factory site, including the site of the factory. I had a glimpse of the willingness to do business of foreign affiliated company. 

By the way, environmental consultants such as environmental ISO, ESCO Business, and Eco Hotel have landed in Japan one after another. One of Japan companies has been taking a weak point in environmental consideration. Such a trend will continue in the future. Compared with the technical system in the environmental business field of Japan, the market size of the humanities is about 1.5 trillion yen of about one sixteenth. In order to become an environmental nation, it is necessary to have such ideas of foreign affiliated company.

ESCO and the resource company business 1999.05.15

In the Environmental business field, energy conservation and resource-related business are likely to stand up. In the energy saving business, various technologies, products, and services related to energy saving and power saving are born to promote the rationalization of the use of energies. In Europe and the United States, it is called the Energy Service Company (ESCO) business, and it is in full swing as a business to provide the facilities, technology, manpower, and funds to enable energy saving and power saving for existing construction and factories.

In the Japan, it is commercialized for the enterprise, and energy saving and the power saving equipment are becoming popular gradually in the general process. The resource Service company business related to the resource saving if you want there is a business that such a ESCO business leads to energy saving, and it is not amusing to be commercialized in earnest. It is a support business that re-emphasizes production-oriented social structures and is a "resource saving" type. For each company and local government, we have developed a small amount of high-value-added products, the development of recycled resource-based product, the resource procurement of products, and the consulting of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) for all production, distribution, consumption and disposal. It can be said that this is a comprehensive project to promote resource saving such as introduction of recycling technology and clustering of wastes.

This business is in full swing to promote resource saving and recycling technology. Japan imports vast amounts of natural resources from overseas and exports them to foreign countries as processed goods. Therefore, it is discharged to a large amount of waste and domestic. 2.2 billion tonnes of resources flowed in 1996. Of these, 1.29 billion tons are discharged after becoming new stock, such as civil engineering buildings, but only 230 million tons of recycled materials are used. Less than 900 million tonnes of waste are required, and the industrial wastes, 50 million tons, are general waste. The resource company business inevitably comes into view in the drastic improvement of the resource problem.

Beyond GDP- new economic indicators are required

While the GDP (gross national product) is prevalent as a measure of economic growth in which new economic indicators are required, a new economic scale reflecting the "natural capital" incorporating the natural environment of the region has been attracting attention. "Environmental economy" is required to create a new indicator in view of the realization of a prosperous and sustainable society for future generations and people in developing countries. Some major telecommunications companies have begun trying to "visualize" the capital value of the natural environment, such as forests, farmland, and fishery resources.

Calculation of natural value natural capital is the capital that water, air, soil, flora and fauna form. The concept of capital, which is an important production element lined with land and labor in economics, has been widely amplify to natural objects. Based on public data such as government statistics, a new function service that evaluates the characteristics of each municipality from the environmental, social, and economic indices in addition to the capital value of the nature, inhabitants, and artificial structures of about 1740 municipalities around the country. Evasiva in the public. "Evasiva" has provided the ability to calculate the year's worth of forest and farmland to the inhabitants.

For example, the effect of the surface collapse and the avalanche prevention by the forest, the absorption effect of carbon dioxide (CO2), the farm products brought from the farmland, the influence of climate change, etc. are made possible quantitative evaluation by the index of 10 streets. In the new function as a new economic indicator, from the market outlook, such as shipping volume and transaction price of the forest area and timber to give an example, the total of the resource value that the forest owned by each municipality is calculated in the future as a regional capital is made visible. The municipality measures the amount of change in the forest capital, and can set up a measure to secure sustainable forest resources. Although many of the resources are imported for the Japan of small resources, the use of forest resources in the world's third largest forest area without relying on imports is an important issue. It is possible to quantify "natural capital" that the farmland and the fishery resource, etc. give to indifferent in addition to the forest at any rate in the future. It is possible to calculate the loss of quantity, deterioration of quality, and invisible wisdom and culture that are not physically monetary.

Environmental labels as the interface for the green purchaser 2001.12.15

An increasing number of environmental labels are attached to products that use environmental information about product environmental performance for product marketing and advertising. There are two reasons behind this. One is to use the environmental label for the employer and the consumer who is the purchaser, we disclose information such as what is environmentally conscious about the product, what kind of environmental impact it has, and how it contributes to environmental conservation. To promote the use of products.

Another reason is that it can contribute to the development of green consumers, which can understand the needs of consumers from the environment, which enables producers to assert their environment and accurately grasp the environmental performance of products through environmental label initiatives. What type of environmental label is there? There are three types according to the classification of ISO environmental labels. Type 1 is an independent third party, based on an application from a business operator or consumer, to certify and mark the criteria for each product area, and to show the marks, specifically the eco mark. Type 2 is intended to be used for advertising, in addition to marking environmental considerations in the product, according to the unique standards of the establishments. Type 3 is a quantitative display of environmental load data using LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) method. Type 1 Eco Mark certification is currently 4647 items.

In 1989, there were only nine items at the beginning of the person. The establishment of green purchasing law, green Purchasing Network (2601 Group affiliation) and the rise of green consumer are the incentives for the gradual expansion of the environmentally conscious product market, but now It is said that three percent of businesses and consumers who take consumer action with regard to environmental considerations are the whole. But if this is more than seven percent, the market will break. Although there are challenges in providing reliability, transparency, and broader environmental information, the role will become more important as the interface of the purchaser of the environmental label product.

Arase Dam in Kumamoto Prefecture 2003.01.20

The company entered a period of transition from public works that caused deterioration of the environment to natural rebuild-type public works. Last December, the governor of Kumamoto Prefecture, Yoshiko Seya, announced that it would immediately take the removal work after renewing water rights until March 31, 2003, when the water rights of the prefectural Arase Dam Country (50 years) expired on March 31, 2002.

Towels woven in the wind

We can enter the environment business with ideas and wisdom. The Imabari towel has evolved into a worldwide brand now, but there was such a history, too. Now old. It was a time when a large amount of cheap towel made in China entered the domestic market. The towel trader who was compelled to a certain struggle thought.... adopting the environmental consideration which is becoming a trend to the product. However, those skilled in the art did not have the technology. The idea that came up was this. To use renewable energy and wind power in a factory that weaves towels. The company decided to purchase renewable energy from the wind power generation from Shikoku electric power to operate the plant. "Towels woven by power supplied by wind power", so the name you put on the towel was "towel weaving in the wind". When the market was introduced, it sold more than expected. Profitable. With profitable funds, we established environmental management and started to develop new products in the raw material of biodegradable plastic derived from plants. I was introduced many times as one of the examples of environmental business entry with an intellect and ideas without technical skills. The transition of the plant after that is uncertain.

Green Plastic as an eco-material in Europe

Gradually the penetration of European consumer goods manufacturers is taking a big helm in the use of plant-derived plastics and recycled plastics. In the Japan, there is excessive coverage of the efforts of the de-oil-based plus chick about the drinking straw and the container etc. which are mass consumption and a large amount of waste in the food service industry.

The return of Minamata disease - Marine pollution of plastic waste becomes serious 2

According to the United Nations environmental plan continues to increase 500 billion copies a year. The pet bottle is consumed one million per minute as a beverage container. In developed countries, the aim is to stop using plastic straws and to improve recycling, but these disposable products are only 9%. Efforts have been made to reduce disposable plastics over and over again, but the status quo continues to increase rather than decrease. The shopping bag used in the convenience store has increased recently, too. Though it is a developing country to put out a lot of plastic garbage, China which has imported the waste plastic of the developed country up to now also started the restriction.

The return of Minamata disease - Marine pollution of plastic waste becomes serious 1

The return of Minamata disease - Marine pollution of plastic waste becomes serious The waste of plastic has expanded into marine pollution and emerged as a new global environmental problem. The European Union has launched a ban on the use of disposable plastic products by 2030. The main seven countries (G7) Summit also read the discussion. Every year, about eight million ton of plastic waste produced in each country are eroding the sea, and the adverse effects on organisms and ecosystems are aggravated by microscopic particles decomposed by wave power and ultraviolet rays (mili less than 5 micro-plastics).

In Europe, the elimination of oil-based plastics is in full swing

In Europe, green plastic as an eco-material gradually penetrate European consumer goods manufacturers are taking a large rudder to the use of plastic and recycled plastic derived from plants. In the Japan, there is excessive coverage of the efforts of the de-oil-based plus chick about the drinking straw and the container etc. which are mass consumption and a large amount of waste in the food service industry.