Kamikatsu -cho initiatives

In 2003, Kamikatsu Town was the first local government in Japan to declare its Zero Waste. Zero waste means eliminating waste, waste, and waste, and is a concept that aims to create a society that "doesn't produce waste" rather than "how to dispose of waste."
We have decided to reduce waste to zero in the town, and are creating a system that uses local resources to prevent waste from being released.

[ZERO WASTE TOWN KAMIKATSU]

At Kamikatsu Town Zero Waste Center WHY, each and every townspeople strives to reduce waste, including "Garbage Station," where residents work to sort 43 waste by themselves, and "Kurukuru Shop," which reuses second-hand goods, and recycling rates of over 80%. I have achieved this.
As a pioneer of Zero Waste, Kamikatsu Town aims to "create people who can think about and act on the environment in which future children live as their own."

Aya is one of the representative specialty products of the town, and is the brand name of the cooking Tsumamono.
Seasonal leaves, flowers, wild vegetables, etc. are cultivated, shipped and sold. The creation of a mechanism that allows the elderly to work lively using a personal computer has attracted attention from all over the country as a business model, and has become a movie.

The leaf business is a new industrial concept created by Kamikatsu Town, and is commercialized as an ingredient to make cooking favourites with autumn leaves, persimmons, Nanten, camellia leaves, plums, cherry blossoms, and peach flowers.

We are striving to actively use unused energy such as biomass such as biomass using the environment as a keyword, and introduced a wooden chip boiler in Tsukigaya Onsen, the third sector of the town, and unused wood such as the town. Is used as a heating facility or as a fuel for hot springs.

By switching to a wooden biomass (wood chip) produced in Kamikatsu -cho instead of the heavy oil used so far, the budget reduction of the heavy oil paid outside the town, the creation of employment in the new industry, the majority of the annual CO2 Contributing to prevent global warming by reduction.

In addition, the use of thinned wood has been maintained by forests, leading to protecting the town from floods.