date:Mar 21, 2019
more plastic packaging waste per capita than any other country except the United States.
We believe there is room to reduce that volume and we are now considering ways to do that, said Kentaro Doi, director of plastic waste strategy at Japan's environment ministry.
In 2018, Japan's government unveiled a proposal to start tackling the issue, with the goal of reducing the country's 9.4 million tonnes of plastic waste a year by 25 percent by 2030.
A key part of the proposal is to require busine