April 15, 2013
Amita's Waste-to-Food Composting Program Wins 2012 Eco-Products Award
Keywords: Food Non-manufacturing industry
Amita Co., a comprehensive eco-solutions company in Japan, announced on November 28, 2012, that it had received the Chairperson's Award (from the Eco-Products Awards Steering Committee) at the 9th Annual Eco-Products Awards. It shared the award with Panasonic Corporation Industrial Devices Co. (then) and the City of Kyotango in Kyoto Prefecture for their joint efforts on a waste-to-food composting program aimed at creating a local resource-recycling society.
Under the program, food waste from a staff cafeteria at Industrial Devices Co. is used to make liquid fertilizer at Kyotango's Eco-Energy Center, operated by Amita. Farmers in the city use the fertilizer to grow rice, which Industrial Devices Co. then purchases for meals in their staff cafeteria.
Amita intends to continue this program and looks to create more models for a resource-recycling society in other areas.
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