Lawson to Recycle Cooking Oil at All Stores.Tokyo Tokyo (tō`kēō), city (1990 pop. 8,163,573), capital of Japan and of Tokyo prefecture, E central Honshu, at the head of Tokyo Bay. , Japan, Mar 22, 2006 - (JCN JCN Japan Corporate News JCN Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience JCN Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing JCN Journal of Christian Nursing JCN Job Control Number JCN Journal of Child Neurology JCN joint communications network (US DoD) ) - Lawson, a leading Japanese convenience store chain, announced on March 22 that it will introduce a scheme to recycle re·cy·cle tr.v. re·cy·cled, re·cy·cling, re·cy·cles 1. To put or pass through a cycle again, as for further treatment. 2. To start a different cycle in. 3. a. waste cooking oil to all of its 8,329 franchising stores across Japan by the end of May. Specifically, Lawson will commission a waste-collection company to collect cooking oil used at the stores, and process the collected oil at its recycling recycling, the process of recovering and reusing waste products—from household use, manufacturing, agriculture, and business—and thereby reducing their burden on the environment. plant. The oil will be reused as animal feed additives, architectural coating, biodiesel fuel, and additive-free soaps. With this move, Lawson will be able to recycle about 12% of all food waste discharged by the stores. Copyright [c] 2006 Japan Corporate News Network. All rights reserved. |
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