{"id":92266,"date":"2025-10-21T14:22:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T14:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/92266\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T14:22:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T14:22:19","slug":"japan-pushes-reuse-market-as-new-consumption-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/92266\/","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":92267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[273,23122,5008,111,139,69,3354,147,65570,25361],"class_list":["post-92266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-japanese-economy","tag-local-government","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-recycling","tag-science","tag-secondhand","tag-waste"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92266","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=92266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}