Waste and recycling services in Japan

Japan Food Ecology Center is a food-waste-to-feed recycler in Sagamihara, Kanagawa, converting unsold retail and food-factory loss into liquid fermented livestock feed at roughly 49 tons per day of capacity. Founded in 2005 by veterinarian Koichi Takahashi.

Omura Shoji is a Saitama-based waste and recycling operator that has composted school-lunch and commercial food waste into organic fertilizer for about 20 years, and registered Japan's first certified food-scrap-derived fertilizer product in 2021.

Australian subsidiary of the global REMONDIS Group providing commercial food organics collection and processing. It uses sealed tunnel composting to turn food and garden waste into compost, mulch and fertiliser for parks, agriculture and gardens.

Reprotec is a food-recycling operator in Maebashi, Gunma, converting collected food-factory and restaurant waste into organic fertilizer, enzymes and dried eco-feed, alongside its own recycling-fed farm and winery operations.

Australia/New Zealand arm of the global Veolia environmental services group, providing food organics and garden organics (FOGO) collection and processing. It uses in-vessel composting and forced-aeration to make compost and soil conditioners, and runs anaerobic digestion converting commercial food waste to electricity.

Yorii Compost operates a composting plant at Saitama Prefecture's Sainokuni Resource Recycling facility, converting food-factory sludge and food residue (about 200 tons per day) into organic fertilizer via aerobic fermentation instead of incineration.