Green EXPORecycling of Hard-to-Recycle Paper

The toilet paper in the toilets in the Future Life Zone is made using a unique recycling technology that uses hard-to-recycle waste paper that previously had to be burnt. As no virgin pulp is used, it helps to protect forests. Join us in considering what paper can be recycled at the Expo site.

Recycling of hard-to-recycle waste paper from the Expo site

As part of the efforts towards sustainability, disposable plastic tableware and plastic bottles have been replaced with paper tableware and paper cartons. However, these items can not be recycled as paper if they have food or drink residue or are lined with a thin plastic film, so typically they are incinerated.
We are collecting these hard-to-recycle paper products as paper waste and recycling it into toilet paper within three days of arrival at the factory using recycling processing technology.

Realising a circular society by recycling hard-to-recycle waste paper

By 2050, the amount of marine plastic litter is expected to exceed the number of fish*. The Osaka Blue Ocean Vision, announced in 2019, aims to reduce plastic litter and achieve zero additional pollution from marine plastic waste by 2050. In the future, more highly functional paper is expected to replace plastic. However, the more paper that cannot be recycled, the more will be incinerated and forests will be cut down to make new toilet paper. If all paper waste could be recycled, not only would the amount of waste burnt be reduced, but it would also be used effectively as a valuable resource.
*From the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos