Resources & Environment

The JP Group has worked to build a recycling-oriented society through its business for recycling wastepaper, which is becoming increasingly important as a raw material in the production of paper. In addition to a recovered paper collection network that spans all areas of Japan, the JP Group is also expanding its global recovered paper business network, which includes wastepaper recycling businesses in the United States and a wastepaper sales business in Europe. Besides its paper recycling businesses, the JP Group also undertakes a business for recycling waste plastic and waste construction materials into recycled fuels. Furthermore, in response to requests from society, in recent years the JP Group has entered the renewable energy generation sector and is now supplying electric power from wood fiber biomass energy generation plants in Iwate and Shimane prefectures as well as solar power generation plants located in Hokkaido, Iwate and Miyagi prefectures.