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Project outline

Develop a circular economy for plastics while considering environmental sustainability at every stage of materials, manufacturing, collection, sorting and recycling.

R&D Themes & Research Structure

The themes are divided into sub-project A to C to develop circular economy system in cooperation with one another.

Sub-project A, B, C

Sub-project A:
Visualization of circular market, and digitalization and commonization to support CE market expansion

A1-01 Development of Plastic Networking for Environmental Transformation Japan for circular economy (NEC Corporation)
A2-01 Requirement definition and rule formation for digital product passport in Japan (Nomura Research Institute, Ltd.)
A2-02 Research on development and demonstration of matching tool for recycled plastics (Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc.)
A2-03 Action research on behavioral change of consumers for the construction of appropriate resource circulation systems for plastics (Research institute for Humanity and Nature)
A3-01 Development of methods for assessing the impacts of the utilization of biomass resources on natural capital (National Institute for Environmental Studies)
A3-02 Development of environmental assessment method for plastic resource recycling system (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology)

Sub-project B:
Promotion of expanding resource circulation with cooperating CE industries

B1-01 Development on a construction waste plastic recycle process with a collaboration between recycler and manufacturer for the circular economy (Tohoku University)
B1-02 Development of bio/recycled plastics using defibrillated fiber from waste paper and clothes (SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION)
B1-03 Building a data-driven advanced sorting system (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
B1-04 The production process development of the high-quality plastics resin from the recycling plastic-wastes (Toyama Kankyo Seibi Co., Ltd.)
B2-01 Establishment of separation and supply system for collected plastics in cooperation with local governments (AMITA Holdings Co., LTD.)

Sub-project C:
Platform development for improved circularity and visualization

C1-01 Development of environmental testing, diagnosis, and tracer technologies and digital analysis platform for industrial applications (National Institute for Materials Science)
C1-02 Development of a recycled plastics databank to improve the circularity (Tohoku University)
C1-03 Quality evaluation and development of automotive parts for the application of recycled materials to automotive interior and exterior parts (Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.)
C1-04 Automotive parts evaluation and development for the recycled material use (Toyota Bosyoku Corporation)
C1-05 Utilization of recycled material databank and development of business model in the Southeast Asia (NAGASE & CO., LTD.)