{"id":136258,"date":"2025-10-21T14:55:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T14:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/136258\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T14:55:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T14:55:20","slug":"japan-pushes-reuse-market-as-new-consumption-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/136258\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan pushes reuse market as new consumption model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reusing products and materials instead of discarding them is taking hold as a new consumption model in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>The reuse market has been expanding steadily, supported by a growing number of local governments rolling out related initiatives. Eager to further accelerate growth of the sector, the Environment Ministry plans to compile a road map by the end of March 2026 outlining medium- to long-term measures.<\/p>\n<p>Reuse, along with reduce and recycle, is one of the &#8220;three R&#8217;s&#8221; of Japan&#8217;s waste reduction slogans. According to private-sector estimates, Japan&#8217;s reuse market grew from \u00a51.99 trillion ($13.2 billion) in 2017 to \u00a53.12 trillion in 2023, and is projected to reach approximately \u00a54 trillion by 2030.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reusing products and materials instead of discarding them is taking hold as a new consumption model in Japan.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[18,440,19,17,10603,33864,2375,133,81185,18582],"class_list":{"0":"post-136258","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-environment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-japanese-economy","13":"tag-local-government","14":"tag-recycling","15":"tag-science","16":"tag-secondhand","17":"tag-waste"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}