Gunma-based firm takes the lead with innovative industrial waste recycling
Source: The Japan Times, Date: , 2017
The Japan Times, Mar 15, 2017 : Around 1,500 people visit an industrial
waste treatment facility in central Japan each year to see up close how the
operator can recycle more than 99 percent of the solid garbage it receives from
a variety of manufacturers and municipalities. Nakadai Co., which covers the
Kanto region, accepts 60 tons of waste each day, which it recycles and resells
to about 50 customers. The waste includes wooden materials, plastics, cardboard
boxes, personal computers, auto parts and fluorescent lamps. Most industrial
waste treatment companies specialize in handling a single type of waste for
disposal. But Nakadai, founded as a scrap iron processor in Tokyo in 1937, has
tried to diversify its sources of income by obtaining most of the nearly 20 types
of licenses required for waste disposal since the late 1990s.