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Solid waste management tour in Kitakyushu

  • Kitakyushu Eco-Town Center

 

Kitakyushu-city is the advanced city of solid waste management in Japan. The comprehensive

Solid waste management system and Recycling technologies can be learned from waste

collecting procedure at household to the final stage of waste treatment such as incineration,

landfill and recycling. 

 

What to learn

Comprehensive Solid waste management system and Recycling technologies

 


 

Tour conditions 

The tour is the tailor-made study tour exclusively for your group

Number of participant : from 5 to 40

Tour duration : 2 days ( one-day tour can be arranged if required ) 

Study tour planning and arrangement :

Tour guide and interpreter (English ) : Japan KYUSHU Tourist

Transportation : a chartered vehicle

 


 

Itinerary

 

Day 1

8:30 leave hotel in Kitakyushu

Eco Town Center

Hiagari Recycling Center for waste cans and bottles

lunch  

Plastic PET Bottle recycling / Nishi-Nippon PET Recycling

Citizen community Center

17:30 arrive Hotel in Kitakyushu

 

Day 2

8:30 leave hotel in Kitakyushu

Waste paper recycling / Kyushu Seishi 

Higashida No.1 Blast Furnace

Lunch

Melting Furnace  / Sin-Moji Plant 

Sightseeing Mojiko Retro

17:30 arrive Hotel in Kitakyushu

 

Option : the following sites can be arranged as an option.

Hibikinada Biotope

Fukuoka Hydrogen Station

Oki Recycling Center Kururun

 


 

Where to visit and what to learn

 

Day 1

 

Eco Town Center

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.


 

Hiagari Recycling Center for waste cans and bottles

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.


 

Plastic PET Bottle recycling / Nishi-Nippon PET Recycling

 

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.


 

Citizen community Center 

Introduce the Duties of Citizen and Self-government organization for

recycling & waste management.


 

Day 2

 

Waste paper recycling / Kyushu Seishi 

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.

 


 

Only the Blast Furnace in the world which preserved as it was and here
is. It contributed greatly to the development of the Japanese steel industry 
and was used until 1972,  and has been preserved just as it was
Equipment and tools which were actually used are exhibited in the square
and you can see the iron-making process from the raw material
(ore and coketo production of pig iron.
 

 

Melting Furnace  / Sin-Moji Plant 

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.


 

Mojiko Retro

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. 


 

Options

 

Hibikinada Biotope

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.


 

Fukuoka Hydrogen Station

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.

 


 

Oki Recycling Center Kururun

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.

 


 

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