Press Release

August 09, 2022
  • Global Environment
  • Waste & Recycling

 MOE Japan Selects Projects for the FY2022 Support Project for Overseas CO2 Emission Reduction through Strategic International Expansion of Japanese Waste Management and Recycling Industries (First Round)

  1. The Ministry of the Environment (MOE), Japan, has been actively supporting the overseas expansion of Japanese waste management and recycling industries with excellent technologies such as waste treatment systems and recycling facilities
  2. As part of this initiative, MOE Japan supports the project for feasibility surveys concerning overseas expansion of Japanese waste management and recycling industries by providing the Subsidy for CO2 Emission Control Measures (“Support Project for Overseas CO2 Emission Reduction through Strategic International Expansion of Japanese Waste Management and Recycling Industries”).
  3. As a result of the screening by the panel of experts set up by the Japan Waste Research Foundation regarding the applications filed by July 1, 2022, two projects have been selected.
  4. In this Project, applications will remain open until November 30, 2022.

Project outline

The Subsidy for CO2 Emission Control Measures (Support Project for Overseas CO2 Emission Reduction through Strategic International Expansion of Japanese Waste Management and Recycling Industries) is a project to provide a subsidy for feasibility surveys to be conducted overseas within the next few years, in connection with projects for providing waste management services or projects for constructing facilities as entrusted by waste treatment business operators, etc. (limited to those directly conducive to reduction of CO2 emissions from energy sources). In this Project for FY2022, MOE Japan has publicly called for applications since April 18, 2022.

Projects selected in the first round

Based on the results of the screening by the panel of experts set up by the Japan Waste Research Foundation, the following two projects have been selected.
 
Applicant: JFE Engineering Corporation
Country: Bangladesh
Project name: Integrated Waste Treatment in Chattogram City
 
Applicant: Hitachi Zosen Corporation
Country: Philippines
Project name: Waste-to-Energy Project in the City of Manila