Good Newscommons.wikimedia.org Kamikatsu, Japan’s zero-waste town, has lessons for a sustainable future Tucked away in the mountains of Japan’s Shikoku island, a town of about 1,500 residents is on an ambitious path toward a zero-waste life.
Solutions The no-waste goal that succeeded by failing Today, more than 80 percent of the village's waste is kept out of incinerators and landfill, but the transformation wasn't easy or quick.