JAPAN’S RECYCLING INDUSTRY STRUGGLES TO KEEP UP WITH VOLUME OF WASTE, POST-TSUNAMI
August 1st, 2011
BY JULIAN RYALL
MOUNTAINS of waste are growing atop the paddy fields on the outskirts of the city of Sendai, Japan, which was devastated by this year's earthquake and tsunami. From the elevated highway that runs north from the capital of Miyagi Prefecture, a steady stream of trucks can be seen depositing loads of twisted metal; flat-beds piled with home appliances that are so mangled they are almost unrecognisable, to be dumped along with the wrecked cars already stacked four-high on the former farmland.
Low-lying and alongside a river that winds inland, these ...
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