{"id":94944,"date":"2025-10-21T14:57:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T14:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/94944\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T14:57:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T14:57:16","slug":"japan-pushes-reuse-market-as-new-consumption-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/94944\/","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":94945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[246,61,60,8672,26965,3751,82,59783,20553],"class_list":["post-94944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-japanese-economy","tag-local-government","tag-recycling","tag-science","tag-secondhand","tag-waste"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}