WASTE MANAGEMENT
from its efforts to move toward a zero-waste future , the company is also working toward better efforts in plastics recycling in Japan . It began in 1999 with its Hyper Cycle System , which has more recently been coupled with the company ’ s Green Cycle System . The combination of these two recycling systems has seen the amount of plastic waste jump from a mere 6 percent , to an astounding 70 .
The company sees its mission as more than just reclaiming plastics .
“ Materials recovered from old products are valuable resources of benefit to society . We look at a mountain of old electrical appliances and see a ‘ city mine ,’ and view ourselves as the miners entrusted with the painstaking work of extracting the
‘ Its Kyoto plant has become an exemplar for energy-from-waste plants in Japan , as it will become more energy efficient and have a longer lifespan by the year 2018 ’
Mitsubishi is working to update its ene
precious ore from it ,” Takashi Hishi , the company ’ s Executive Corporate Adviser , said . “ But we ’ re really still just in the era of discovery of what might be possible . We hope in five or ten years Hyper Cycle Systems and Mitsubishi Electric will be viewed as the nucleus of a completely new type of recycled materials industry .”
Overall , the company is looking to expand the scale of recycling across Japan and Mitsubishi believes it already has the capabilities to make this happen .
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