{"id":510409,"date":"2026-07-05T04:22:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T04:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/510409\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T04:22:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T04:22:33","slug":"japan-taps-delivery-trucks-in-push-to-recycle-rare-metals-from-e-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/510409\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan taps delivery trucks in push to recycle rare metals from e-waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/spotlight\/supply-chain\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Supply Chain<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">With restrictions eased, smaller ground transport firms to join pilot program<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/1\/0.jpeg\" alt=\"20260702N Kuro Neko\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Yamato Transport will be one of five companies overseeing the pilot program under which delivery companies collect e-waste. (Photo by Shintaro Ino)<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; The Japanese government will launch a pilot program that deploys smaller ground transport companies to collect electronic waste as part of a broader initiative to recycle rare metals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Supply Chain With restrictions eased, smaller ground transport firms to join pilot program Yamato Transport will be one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[31143,60412,273,1759,7462,111,139,69,15400,8205,45934,147,150326,29271],"class_list":["post-510409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-delivery","tag-e-waste","tag-environment","tag-japan","tag-metals","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-push","tag-rare","tag-recycle","tag-science","tag-taps","tag-trucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}