Haneda Technical Support Center (TSC) in the head office in Haneda, Tokyo. At TSC, engineers can watch images such as flames burning in waste incinerators and operate incinerators remotely in real time.
Norihisa MIYOSHI*
Yoji Sato**
Atsushi Ishiu***
Tadashi Adachi****
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Director and Division Executive of Engineering Division, EBARA Environmental Plant Co., Ltd.
Joined Ebara Corporation in 1987. Worked on preparations for separating and integrating companies from 2007. Posted in Germany in 2009. Worked rigorously on combining the EPC and O&M services at the Technical Support Center from 2012. Current position from 2019.
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Director of the Board
Division Executive, Marketing & Sales Division, EBARA Environmental Plant Co., Ltd.
Joined EBARA-Infilco Co., Ltd. in 1987. Posted to EBARA Environmental Plant Co., Ltd. in 2009. Posted to Ebara Qingdao Co., Ltd. in 2012. Returned to EBARA Environmental Plant Co. in 2017. Current position from 2019.
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Manager of Yokote Plant, EBARA Environmental Plant Co., Ltd.
Joined EBARA Engineering Service Co., Ltd. in 1998. Posted in Yokote Management Office in 2015 after working at Misawa Management Office, DBO/Long-term Comprehensive Contract Business AdministrationDepartment, etc. Current position from 2018.
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Executive Director and President, Chubu Recycle Co., Ltd.
Joined Ebara Corporation in 1987. Transferred to EBARA Environmental Plant Co., Ltd. in 2009. Posted to Ebara Qingdao Co., Ltd. in 2012. Returned to EBARA Environmental Plant Co. in 2016. Current position from 2019 after working as General Manager of Administration Division.
One cannot overlook the importance of Ebara Environmental Plant Business Company (EEPBC) in EBARA Group. EEPBC have been expanding their scope of business activities and are performing remarkably well. At present, these companies rank second in the industry when it comes to the number of facilities being outsourced to them for operation. With an excellent track record as a plant construction contractor, these EBARA companies are ushering in a new era for waste treatment and recycling businesses. The following pages chronicle a discussion with four representatives from EBARA Environmental Plant Co., Ltd. and Chubu Recycle Co., Ltd. The following pages chronicle a discussion with four representatives from EBARA Environmental Plant Co., Ltd. and Chubu Recycle Co., Ltd., which play core roles in EEPBC. In this discussion, they tell us about their current activities and future prospects.
Sato
The mission of an EEPBC is to perform waste treatment at waste treatment facilities.
About 200 tons of garbage is collected every day in a city with a population of 200,000. The standard waste treatment plant in Japan can process 200 tons per day and requires two waste treatment facilities for processing 100 tons per day each. There are waste treatment facilities at about 1,100 locations in Japan and the number of facilities has been increased to the maximum limit. So far, there is no need for construct another facility.
Our tasks do not end with construction in the case of a waste treatment facility. We are required to operate the facility and treat the waste. Usually, it was the local governments who mainly carried out the tasks of waste treatment. Recently, however, there have been an increasing number of cases where Design, Build and Operate (DBO) contracts have been introduced to outsource engineering and construction as well as operation of waste treatment facilities.
EBARA Environmental Plant Co. operates waste treatment facilities at about 80 locations.
In 2009, EBARA consolidated its services for engineering and construction and for operation of a waste treatment facility into a single company. This business method is called “EPC+O&M”. To be more specific, a single EPC+O&M contractor company offers all the services from Engineering (E), Procurement (P), Construction (C), to Operation (O) and Maintenance (M). EBARA Environmental Plant Co. has been formed through the processes of separating and integrating business enterprises that are interspersed among different companies of EBARA Group.
EPC＋O&M EPC stands for Engineering, Procurement, and Construction and O&M stands for Operation and Maintenance. EPC+O&M provide services such as designing a waste treatment facility, procuring materials and equipment, constructing a facility, and performing operation and maintenance of the facility on behalf of a local government that owns the facility. EPC+O&M refers to all the services provided by EBARA Environmental Plant Co. at a waste treatment facility.
There is a big advantage in being able to propose to the clients the implementation of all tasks from engineering and construction phases to operation and maintenance phase as a turnkey basis. Since EBARA Environmental Plant Co. has proprietary knowledge of multiple waste incineration technologies including stoker and fluidized bed technologies, we can offer the optimal incineration system that complies with local characteristics and needs of its clients. Furthermore, EBARA Environmental Plant Co. can provide plant operation services through which we propose engineering and construction solutions that apply state-of-the-art technologies for extending the life of existing facilities and offer contracts that are long-term and comprehensive.
At present, there are only three companies in the industry who can manufacture the core equipment that are required for waste treatment facilities, such as incinerators and boilers. EBARA Environmental Plant Co. of EBARA Group is one of them. EBARA Environmental Plant Co. has been manufacturing waste treatment facility equipment at Ebara Qingdao Co., Ltd. in Qingdao, Shandong, China. The Ebara Qingdao Co. plant manufactures equipment intended for clients in Japan and also supplies incinerators and boilers to waste treatment facilities in China and other countries in Asia.
Ishiu
In recent years, there is an increase in cases where local government want to conclude long-term comprehensive operation contracts for Operation and Maintenance (O&M) services. For example, EBARA Environmental Plant Co. is commissioned with a 20-year contract to operate the “Clean Plaza Yokote” facility in Yokote, Akita.
Miyoshi
The integration process was obviously very hard. But, even after it was done, it took quite a while until we could appreciate the benefits of integration.
Since 2007, I had been involved in the division that made preparations for separating and integrating companies. After that, I was posted to Germany and was not present when the integration of companies actually took place. I returned from Germany in 2012 and still remember clearly that the atmosphere in the company was somewhat tense even though nearly three years had passed since the companies were integrated.
At that time, the management policies were set up to concentrate all efforts on the more profitable O&M (Operation and Maintenance) business rather than EPC (Engineering, Procurement, and Construction). We should have been engaged in improving the operation and maintenance of the facilities, but there was no feedback from the actual facilities that we operated. There was, after all, a kind of hierarchical relationship between the O&M division members and EPC division engineers. For example, when there was a problem in the design of a facility being constructed, this information was not received by the engineering section. There was no system for passing information from an actual facility to the engineering section, and even if the cause of the problem was in the design, there was a strained relation that the operators could not point out it, because they would be blamed by the engineer when operator point out it. Only when information is passed on to all concerned parties, it becomes possible to reap the true benefits of integrating the companies. This issue of information sharing was improved through regional activities. To promote the regional activities, we set up a system, which is like operating and managing a single company.
To achieve that goal, we separated the waste treatment facilities at approximately 80 locations of Japan to five regions, namely Hokkaido (northernmost island), Tohoku (northern part), Kanto (eastern part), Chubu (central part), and Nishi-Nippon (western part) regions. Then, we appointed a person in charge of each region.
Sato
After this new system was adopted for company management, the person in charge of each region has proactively started visiting the facilities of that region. As a result, we had more opportunities to directly listen to the voices of the workers at the actual facility, and the distance between company management and a facility has become much shorter.
Ishiu
Previously, we had no direct contact with no direct contract with the head office. We only held a held meetings with plant managers from all over the country twice a year. Even when I visited the head office all the way from Akita, there was no person in charge with whom I could consult.
Sato
Until this new system was adopted, we were hesitant to disclose the profit and loss data of each facility to the plant manager (facility manager). When this data is disclosed to them, the managers gain access to the actual numbers that are directly related to the management conditions of a facility, and their mindset has changed significantly. I recognized that it was important for plant managers to be aware of profit and loss information.
Miyoshi
We also decided to hold meetings once a year to exchange opinions and have friendly get-togethers in order to collect information periodically. In addition, we set up a system for reporting a problem that occurred at the facility we operate to our head office. Previously, we did not have any specific channel for circulating reports that would enable all personnel from engineering to operation and maintenance to access those reports. With this new system, I think we were able to remove in-house hurdles and improve our technical competence.
Miyoshi
We decided to establish a comittee that specialized in problem solving at our head office. That was in 2013. This first attempt did not go smoothly at the beginning because correcting a problem involves expenses. So, we asked the directors to be a participant of the committee and consequently this committee started working well.
In the last five years, about 300 cases of trouble were reported and we have resolved about 200 so far. We are aiming at reducing the remaining 100 cases to 50 by the end of this year.
There were no feedback coming up from the facilities. (Mr. Miyoshi)
Adachi When waste is incinerated, about 10% of the original waste remains in the form of ash. In recent years, waste related to disasters has been increasing and therefore it is necessary to prepare final waste disposal sites for any kind of emergency.
BCP: Business Continuity Planning BCP is a plan for minimizing damage, continuing business, and recovering the operation of a company quickly in the event of an emergency situation such as a disaster or terrorist attack
There are various methods of recycling the incineration ash, for example, ash can be melted or turned into a cement raw material. The method used by Chubu Recycle Co. is a smelting reduction process. This method not only reduces the volume of the ash, and detoxifies and stabilizes the ash, it also recycles the ash in order to produce stones made using the smelting reduction process (“ECO STONE”) as construction materials or recover valuable metals.
Adachi
Yes, they are. Approximately 50% of the ash is transformed into stones made from the smelting reduction process and it is also possible to recover gold, silver, platinum, copper, and iron.
The stones are used as construction materials. These stones are almost indistinguishable from natural stones. Even if they are immersed in water, no toxic substances are emitted. These stones help recycling of resources when they are utilized in our daily lives as recycle material. The steel scraps can be also recycled. When steel is produced using steel scraps instead of iron ore, CO2 emissions can be reduced. Particularly in Europe, this recycling technology is drawing much attention again in parallel with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The gold in molten metal generated by the smelting reduction process contains more gold than gold extracted from a gold mine. Therefore, this recycling process is more efficient than building a mine. The downside is that the total volume that can be recovered from the incineration ash is smaller.
Stones made from the smelting reduction process. Approximately half of the molten incineration ash is transformed into stones made from the smelting reduction process. These stones are used as construction materials, etc.
Molten metals. The metals such as gold, silver, platinum, and copper can be recovered from molten incineration ash.
“The demand for recycling incineration ash is increasing. When the ash is melted, various metals and construction materials can be recovered.”(Mr. Adachi)
Adachi Japan produces approximately 3.2 million tons of incineration ash per year from general waste. Incineration ash is divided into three types, incinerator bottom ash, fly ash, and molten ash. Gold can be recovered from incinerator bottom ash only. Suppose the volume of the incinerator bottom ash is 1.5 million tons, gold that can be recovered is roughly 0.0005% of that volume.
Adachi Nowadays, most devices use electronic circuits and are assembled with printed circuit boards, even children’s toys. So, there is gold in all kinds of waste. Zinc is also recovered from fly ash. When zinc is enriched further by concentrating the fly ash, it can produce zinc raw material.
Adachi
When metals such as gold, platinum, and copper are melted and certain conditions are met, a layer forms naturally due to gravity sedimentation. Various technologies, however, are required to create the correct blending ratio of raw materials, temperature controls, and so on. Zinc raw material is mainly produced from fly ash using dechlorination and dehydration enrichment processes.
Sato
The unit cost of the melting process in resources recycling can be reduced by subtracting the selling price of a product (e.g. stones made using the smelting reduction process, molten metals, and zinc raw material) from the total recycling cost.
Adachi
The ash-melting process requires wide-ranging operation know-how in addition to equipment that cost higher than equipment required for other ash treatment processes. Chubu Recycle Co. has a history of more than 20 years including the history of its predecessor and we have proprietary know-how on the operation of an electric furnace.
Furthermore, we have started the enrichment process of zinc raw material and created the dechlorination technology required for preventing corrosion of construction materials ahead of other companies in the same sector.
Although some local governments do possess melting furnaces, many of these governments have stopped operating their furnaces because of issues such as facility size, frequency of operation, lack of the required number of operators, and inability to maintain the quality of slags (artificial sand produced by melting metals). Because of these issues, there is a fast-growing demand for the outsourcing of waste treatment.
Adachi
The waste treatment facilities mainly supply the power they generate to the local governments. This power is used at public facilities such as city halls, schools, hospitals, and sports facilities. Generated power has been drawing a lot of attention as renewable energy in line with local production for local consumption, and the demand from the local governments for this type of power generation has been increasing lately.
Ishiu
Even the waste treatment facility at “Clean Plaza Yokote” generates power. This generated power is supplied to a total of 24 elementary and junior high schools in Yokote. The elementary school fourth graders visit the Clean Plaza Yokote facility as a part of their social studies field trips. When I explain to them that “the electricity used at your school is generated using waste collected at this facility,” they listen to me with a look of delight on their faces.
Ishiu
Oh, yes, they get really excited. I believe that their reactions have to do with how they feel when they are standing in front of the huge waste pit of garbage accumulated in just two weeks. We also show them images of burning waste in an incinerator.
We send power consumption data to the schools. When the school power consumption exceeds the predetermined amount, we send an email to the teachers. When the students see this data, they take the necessary actions on their own initiative. For example, they recognize the fact that they should turn off lights whenever possible or set a higher temperature on the air-conditioner.
Sato
Electricity of the city hall of Musashino, Tokyo is supplied with power generated from waste incineration at the “Musashino Clean Center,” which is next to the city hall.
This waste treatment facility has attracted considerable interest even from standpoint of Business Continuity Planning (BCP). In case of a power outage of the Tokyo Electric Power Company, Musashino Clean Center can continue supplying electricity as long as it has waste to incinerate.
Do you remember when entire areas of Hokkaido were in blackout because of the Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake in September, 2018? I was just visiting Sapporo on a business trip. All lights of the hotel I was staying were off. I could not have breakfast and could not take a shower either. So, I asked personnel of the Hokkaido branch office to pick me up by car from the hotel and had them take me to the waste treatment facility in Asahikawa. There was a total blackout all around the facility, but the facility was lit up and continuing its operation. The facility generates its own power and so it could continue normal operation (autonomous operation) under the circumstances. I was able to charge my smartphone at the facility and also felt very pleased sipping a cold coke that I bought from a vending machine.
In Hokkaido, waste treatment facilities whose operation is undertaken by EEP are generating power in Iwamizawa, Asahikawa, and Obihiro. All three facilities were able to continue waste treatment by autonomous operation. We re-recognized the fact that a waste treatment facility could play an active role as a logistics base in the event of a disaster.
Ishiu
We expect “Clean Plaza Yokote” to be used as a logistics support facility in the event of a disaster, for example, as a logistics base for people coming in for help from other local governments. To this end, the facility has 3 days’ worth of food and water stored for 140 people.
Sato
Regarding power generation, while the need for biomass power generation is comparatively less, there is a steady demand for a number of biomass power generation systems every year.
“The elementary school students on a social studies field trip get really excited learning about our facility.” (Mr. Ishiu)
Adachi
That’s right. I was posted there for four years and Mr. Sato stayed on for a year longer.
Sato
I thought it would be rather odd for both of us to leave the company at the same time and so I worked there for 5 years (laugh).
Sato That’s right. This company manufactures incinerators and boilers for the Japan market. Ebara Qingdao Co. has two main functions, one is manufacturing products for the Japan market and the other is the sales of incinerators and boilers to waste treatment companies in China and other countries in Asia.
Ebara Qingdao Co., Ltd. in Qingdao, Shandong, China. The company manufactures key components (i.e. incinerators and boilers) and replacement parts that are required for maintenance, and also sells these components to China and other countries in Asia. Ebara Qingdao Co., Ltd. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of EBARA Environmental Plant Co.
China has waste treatment facilities in about 300 locations. Roughly 10% of those facilities in 30 locations use incinerators and boilers manufactured by EBARA Environmental Plant Co. It is the top market share as a Japanese company.
The form of services we provide in China is “EP+SV,” which is similar to the “EPC+O&M” services mentioned earlier. Our EP+SV services in China includes Engineering (E) and Procurement (P), as well as a Supervisor (SV) contract, which is a contract for the services of a technical instructor.
China is ahead of Japan in the outsourcing of waste treatment to local Chinese private companies by local governments. It is considerably difficult foreign companies to venture into the position of local Chinese private companies (companies that operate the waste treatment facilities). Nevertheless, EBARA Environmental Plant Co. is able to provide services for its technologies such as incinerators, since the private companies in China do not possess those technologies. EBARA Environmental Plant Co. performs the basic designing of equipment and facility, supplies incinerator and other equipment, and also dispatches technical instructors for the installation and test run of the equipment.
I have mentioned that there are currently waste treatment facilities at about 300 locations in China. In reality, however, it is believed that facilities must be constructed at another 1 200 locations. It is likely that there will be a continuous rush of construction projects for building waste treatment facilities all over China, for the time being.
Adachi
That is because the scale of the waste disposal volume is totally different. A facility in Japan normally incinerates 100 tons to 200 tons of waste per day on average. On the other hand, a facility in China incinerates 10 times or higher volume of waste, that is about 1 000 tons to 3 000 tons per day on average. In Japan, the general waste is incinerated within municipality limits such as cities, towns, and villages according to the “Principal of Waste Disposal within the Boundaries of Each Ward.” China has adopted the European style waste disposal method. At first, the waste is delivered to waste transfer stations located at many locations by truck. The delivered waste is compressed to remove water that is discharged into the sewage. Then, the compressed waste is loaded onto 10-ton or 20-ton trailers that are hauled to waste treatment facilities by trucks.
The waste in China contains a large volume of water. Until 50 years ago, the Japanese people used to wrap raw food waste with newspapers instead of plastic bags and dispose of it in a blue polyethylene bucket. At that time, I believe that we did not use so many plastic containers. The garbage disposal situation in China is in a stage similar to that earlier time in Japan.
The EBARA brand is already widely known in China. We have a competitive edge since we have a wide lineup of incinerators and can offer products that meet the requirements of each client. Our biggest advantage is that we can expand our business in China through Chinese technical instructors who have been trained by EBARA Environmental Plant Co.
The difficulties faced by Ebara Qingdao Co. now are a shortage of engineers due to a high demand and also the need to expand the existing factory.
With regard to supplying incinerators in China and other countries in Asia, Ebara Qingdao Co. can maintain high profit margins by selective acceptance of orders. Furthermore, it is likely that more large-size incinerators will be installed in Japan. That means that EEPBC in EBARA Group can learn the technologies for manufacturing large-size incinerators through production of the incinerators for China and other countries in Asia.
Sato
It is estimated that the population of Japan will be less than 80 million in 2050. It is also highly likely that the number of waste treatment facilities will be reduced by 20% to 30% in the next 30 years. We are not concerned about that so much.
We think rather that more and more local governments will outsource waste treatment processes to private companies due to a decline in the workforce. Therefore, we expect that the businesses of EBARA Environmental Plant Co. will continue expanding in the coming years.
There are a total of approximately 1 100 waste treatment facilities in Japan. One-third of them are operated by local governments. Of the remaining facilities, one-third each are outsourced to either local companies or ‘manufacturers’ and operated by them. The term ‘manufacturers’ implies companies that manufactured the incinerators installed in the various facilities. Among those run by manufacturers, our company operates facilities at 80 locations.
We expect that local governments will increasingly outsource waste treatment processes to private companies in the coming years. Among the 1 100 facilities nationwide, it is highly likely that operation of two-thirds may be outsourced to manufacturers. So, this is a big market.
Actually, even at this point in time, we have a backlog of unfilled orders that amount to more than three-year’s worth of the yearly turnover. Therefore, we should be more concerned about the shortage of human resources rather than a decline in the number of facilities.
To that end, we are working on automation of waste treatment and streamlining of facility/equipment maintenance using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and remote operation technologies.
Miyoshi For example, an AI crane has been operating at the facility in Funabashi, Chiba since February this year.
Miyoshi
The cranes are operated in accordance with AI-based image analysis.
After the waste is transported to a waste facility by garbage trucks, they are first emptied into a waste pit, because if the waste is emptied into an incinerator immediately after it is brought to the facility, stable combustion cannot be achieved. There are several different types of waste, that is easy-to-burn paper waste, plastic waste, and hard-to-burn raw food waste. To incinerate these different types of waste in a stable manner, they must be mixed properly into a homogeneous waste. At the facilities, an experienced operator mixes the waste using a crane.
This experienced operator determines whether the waste in this section must be mixed or the waste in that section should be left as is. We have developed AI software that can make the same decisions based on images of a waste pit, just as an experienced crane operator does. And, we have developed an AI crane that is automatically operated in accordance with the decisions made by this AI software.
AI crane configurations (automatic crane system equipped with waste identification AI)
Miyoshi
First of all, crane operation is no longer required and therefore the human operator workload can be significantly reduced. There will be no instabilities in the quality of operation, which otherwise varies depending on the skill level of the operator. As a result, this can help mitigate the anticipated operator shortage.
The most fascinating fact about this project is that we started out with developing the technology for automation of a crane instead of an incinerator, even though our company primarily started its business from the manufacturing of incinerators. If we had considered developing automation from the viewpoint of an engineer, we most probably must have focused on development of automation for controlling the combustion of an incinerator.
Sato
Our company was the first in the industry to focus on the AI crane.
I think we were able to develop the AI crane because our company shifted its primary focus to operation and maintenance services instead of EPC services. I also think that this was an idea born out of our corporate culture, which encourages all employees to strive for strengthening the company in unison with the personnel at the facilities.
Miyoshi
Automating the input of waste can have a significant effect since this process is in the upstream of the incineration process. We are planning to install AI cranes at other facilities too.
Ishiu
AI cranes are going to be installed at “Clean Plaza Yokote” next. Construction has been started and the AI cranes are going to be put in operation by the end of this year.
Miyoshi
A remote support service is provided for improving operational skills and implementing disaster measures. We have Fujisawa Field Support Center (FSC) in Fujisawa, Kanagawa. FSC performs the functions of checking and monitoring the operating conditions of each waste treatment facility and provides guidance whenever necessary. In times of disasters such as earthquakes, the equipment at the facilities is operated remotely from FSC as a support measure. Besides FSC, there is the Haneda Technical Support Center (TSC) in the head office. The functions of TSC are slightly different from those of FSC, TSC mainly provides technical support to waste treatment facilities. Under normal circumstances, TSC performs analysis of data sent from the waste treatment facilities. The results of this analysis are used for future operation of equipment/facilities and for studying methods that can improve the efficiency of operation and maintenance of a facility.
When a trouble occurs at a facility, for example, in the event of a conveyor failure, an engineer at TSC shares the image of the trouble location with the personnel at the facility and determines actions to be taken. Since there are many engineers working at TSC, they can identify the actual symptoms of a trouble accurately by directly providing instructions like “move that part slightly,” “move closer,” or “show me the cross-section through wearable cameras.” Before TSC was set up, our staff was immediately sent to a facility from head office in the event of a trouble. They took photos of the trouble locations, returned to head office, and held a meeting of engineers to determine the actions to be taken to repair the trouble. We can now correct troubles much faster than before.
Haneda Technical Support Center (TSC) in the head office
When a trouble occurs at a facility, for example, in the event of a conveyor failure, an engineer at TSC shares the image of the trouble location with the personnel at the facility and determines actions to be taken. Since there are many engineers working at TSC, they can identify the actual symptoms of a trouble accurately by directly providing instructions like “move that part slightly,” “move closer,” or “show me the cross-section through wearable cameras.” Before TSC was set up, our staff was immediately sent to a facility from head office in the event of a trouble. They took photos of the trouble locations, returned to head office, and held a meeting of engineers to determine the actions to be taken to repair the trouble. We can now correct troubles much faster than before.
Sato
EBARA Environmental Plant Co. is a manufacturer of incinerators and other equipment, but is now venturing more and more into the service industry.
EBARA Environmental Plant Co. is making an effort toward expanding the range of its services from the services the company provides for the waste treatment business and improving the quality of services together with the development of new products. We are not just a plant construction contractor.
“We are no longer a plant construction contractor.” (Mr. Sato)
In the past, I used to think that there was little or no connection between the business of our company and fields such as education and public services. Now, however, we are paying close attentions to these fields as well.
Earlier, Mr. Ishiu was talking about elementary school students’ field trips to the waste treatment facilities. We accept visitors for the purpose of education to raise the awareness of environmental issues. Such services were mainly provided by local governments before, but are increasingly being outsourced to private companies now. “Musashino Clean Center” holds various events almost on a monthly basis. The Center has a rooftop vegetable garden that uses compost from food waste. During the autumn harvest festival, visitors can feast on pizza baked with toppings of vegetables picked from the rooftop vegetable garden.
Last year (2019), we held a plant tour event entitled “Gomi (trash) Pit Bar,” for adults. We were expecting applications for admission to the event from up to 30 visitors, but received nearly 200 applications instead. This event was introduced in the Internet-based news as
“The world’s most surreal-looking bar surfaces in Tokyo!”
The visitors sipped cocktails while watching a crane as it dynamically mixed the waste in the pit. Through this event, I came to realize that we had the potential to contribute to the revitalizing of local communities.
As you know, the waste treatment facilities generate energy such as electricity. Looking further into the future, if the generated electricity is supplied to water purification plants or water and sewage facilities, I think we can create urban ecological infrastructure. We can establish a business that undertakes the management of all urban infrastructures jointly with an affiliated company called Swing Corporation, with a fluid machinery & systems company in Ebara Corporation that manufactures pumps and also with an affiliated company called Swing Corporation, which provide water and sewage services.
In this manner, we must look for new values in waste incineration facilities. I believe that such discoveries will transform our businesses.
Comment: This article was prepared by a third-party facilitator who interviewed the participants and edited the article.
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