Press Release

October 11, 2022
  • Global Environment
  • Waste & Recycling

MOE Japan Selects Projects for the FY2022 Project for Overseas Expansion of Japanese Waste Management and Recycling Industries (Second 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.
 
  1. As part of this initiative, in order to conduct feasibility surveys and carry out other relevant activities, MOE Japan has publicly called for applications of the FY2022 Project for Overseas Expansion of Japanese Waste Management and Recycling Industries.
 
  1. Four projects were selected as of June 27, 2022. By August 24, 2022, MOE Japan received two more applications, and one project was selected based on the results of the screening.

Project outline

In the Project for Overseas Expansion of Japanese Waste Management and Recycling Industries, MOE Japan has been supporting the overseas expansion of Japanese waste management and recycling industries while fully understanding the needs in the waste management and recycling fields in other countries. MOE Japan will conduct feasibility surveys for projects to construct facilities overseas within the next few years entrusted by waste treatment business operators or business operators which offer services related to the waste treatment. In the FY2022 Project, MOE Japan started to publicly call for applications from April 18, 2022, and received six applications by May 18, 2022, and two more applications by August 24, 2022.
 

Projects selected in the second round

The following project has been selected, based on the results of the evaluation by the screening panel set up by the Japan Waste Research Foundation, which is the contractor for the work to select and supervise projects under the FY2022 Project for Overseas Expansion of Japanese Waste Management and Recycling Industries.
 
Applicant: Mikuniya Corporation
Country: Costa Rica
Project name:
Establishing a Resource Recycling Waste Treatment System by introducing Organic Waste Volume Reduction Technology in San Jose City, etc.