Japan's implementation of the "Food Waste Recycling Act" has achieved initial success

After promulgating the "Basic Law for the Construction of a Recycling Society" in 2000, the Japanese government promulgated the "Food Waste Recycling Law" as a supporting law, mainly focusing on serious food waste (typically the surveyed residents' wastage ratio was 7.7%, the food processing industry was 3.2%, and the hotel 7.2% for hotels and restaurants, 15.2% for banquets and 23.9% for weddings.

After nearly a year of propaganda preparation after its promulgation, only two months after the implementation began in May of this year, it has achieved initial results.

(1) As society's awareness of the recycling of foodstuffs and wastes has increased, the demand for food and waste recycling equipment has soared and the development of related manufacturing industries has been promoted. According to the statistics, the company has developed and produced 3-1 OKG/d household waste processors in 250 households. It has developed and produced more than 270 large and small-sized food and waste offices, and even steelmaker Kawasaki Steel has introduced technology from Europe to produce food waste. Plant for the production of methane and fertilizer by fermentation.

(2) Some enterprises producing food and waste have already taken active actions. For example, Xiyou Company sold the fast-overdue milk and beans, etc., to the employees of the unit after a substantial reduction in price, which resulted in a 54% reduction in food and waste compared with the same period of last year. The Moto series of companies collects and composts the stubborn rice that has been tasted in 60 large stores and 200 small and medium-sized shops in Tokyo. The British company uses the conditions of concurrently operating green vegetables in 60 stores in the Kanto region to compost food and waste for suburban vegetable farmers, and then to purchase green vegetables produced from composted vegetable crops for efficient utilization and a virtuous circle.

(3) The food and beverage processing industry emerged as the times require. "CATS has formed a circulatory system for food waste generators, composting farms, and vegetable farmers' organizations that produce green vegetables, and it works well. The waste treatment industry NB also uses 200 service outlets to do similar work. Even Panasonic Seiko of Matsushita Electric Group. It is also involved in this business. According to the cloud food industry in Japan, the recycling rate of food waste is only 0.3%, so this is a big market (including processing machinery amounting to 360 billion yen/a)', and the key is to expand compost and feed. Application market.

(4) The national organization for food wastes is under preparation. Okadoura's company, which manufactures food waste drying equipment, has been praised by users for its ability to reduce its volume to 1/5 to 1/10 and to perform sterilization. It is planned to use this advantage to collect the dry matter produced by them and commission the feed processing centers (using the company's equipment) to process them into feeds and sell them to livestock producers. It is planned to organize them to establish a national "Japan Organic Waste Recycling Association". .

(5) An apparatus for regenerating waste edible oil into diesel alternative fuel has been put on the market. Qibeek company had previously engaged in large-scale leasing of edible oil to extend the use of machines. There were more than 600 contracted households nationwide. To meet the implementation of the “Waste and Food Recycling Act”, the small-scale facility was developed jointly with Kanazawa University, and was manufactured and sold by the Koomos triple company. Qibek leased equipment free of charge under the conditions of the acquisition of renewable fuels. The capacity of the equipment is 100-1000L, and the maximum daily processing capacity is 2500L.