Solid waste management tour in Kitakyushu

Eco Project information center that supports the Eco-town.  It introduces

initiatives and activities implemented in Eco-town to encourage people

to proactively used the facility for such activities as environmental study

sessions and interaction amongst visitors.

The Recycling Center where separates cans, bottles and PET bottles

collected in Kitakyushu-city for recycling. And also paper containers and

Styrofoam food packs are separated at this facility.

PET (polyethylene terephthalate) bottles are sorted by municipalities 

and recycled into pellets and flakes, which can be used as raw materials

for polyester fibers and egg cartons.

Introduce the Duties of Citizen and Self-government organization for

recycling & waste management.

Refined waste papers is recycled into toilet papers. Sludge generated

during the toilet paper production process is used to produce a foaming

inhibitor used by steel works.

The collected waste including metals is melted at over 1,700 degree Celsius

in the Melting Furnace and then the melted slag and metals are discharged. 

The slag is used as raw materials for pavement and bricks and the metals

are re-used for other steel products. The process and technology of the 

Melting Furnace can be learned.

Dr. Albert Einstein awarded Nobel Prize in Physic visited Moji in 1922, and

he acclaimed that everything could see were Arts. The exotic district of

Mojiko Retro is visited by more than 2 million tourists a year. Moji-ko Port

flourished following its 889 designation as a Special National Port for 

exporting coal and other products. 

Japan’s largest Biotope, the Paradise of creatures made over the year in the

waste disposal site.   237 kind of birds including circus spinouts listed on the

Japan’s endangered species and 284 kind of vegetation have been confirmed

in the Biotope of 41 hectares.

World’s first hydrogen station for vehicle to utilize the wastewater treated in

the Fukuoka Chubu Sewage Treatment Center.  The process has been

developed as a result of the verification testing of technology for hydrogen

creation sourced from wastewater biogas.

The biomass recycling facility that started operations in November 2006.

It takes kitchen waste from the town’s households and restaurants, along

with septic tank sludge and raw sewage, and uses a methane fermentation

process to turn it into a biomass that can be used for power generation.

After the fermentation, the digestive fluids are used as liquid fertilizer.

Furthermore, Oki Town was the second in the country to make a

zero-waste declaration, which it officially announced in March 2008 with

its Oki town Mottainai Declaration.