2025.3.20
The Japan News by the YOMIURI SHIMBUN evening edition dated March 19, Eeyan! KANSAI” featured the project’s activities. The article introduces my unique composting project at the Westin Miyako Hotel Kyoto (Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto City) as a measure against food loss. Executive Chef Yasuhiro Yoshida and Jun Mori of Hidekichi Mori Farm are also featured in the newspaper. A...
2025.3.13
In the special exhibition, “Hello from Satellite RIHN – An Institute where Dialogue is Born,” five researchers from RIHN are conducting their daily research activities at the venue during the period. Kentaro Noda, a researcher from this project, will participate on March 20 (Thursday, national holiday) and March 24 (Monday). Place: Kyoto City University of Arts, Buildi...
2025.3.13
DANCING WITH ALL: The Ecology of Empathy 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa✕ RIHN “Animarave” will distribute soil made from the compost house to the first 50 visitors on Sunday, March 16, the last day of the event. Soil will be distributed in original limited-edition tote bags designed by artist Takeshi Yasura. Date: March 16, 2025, 14:00-18:00 Place: 21st ...
2025.2.27
The Westin Miyako Hotel Kyoto issued a press release titled “Promoting a Project to Realize Food Recycling: March Limited Sale of Special Strawberry Sweets Grown with Compost Derived from Food Waste”. Sweets using strawberries from Shimizu Farm in Seika Town, grown with compost made from dry compost, are available only during March. The Westin Miyako Hotel Kyoto, in coopera...
2025.2.25
Professor Shuichi Oyama, PL (Project Leader) of Organic Material Circulatiuon Project, wins the 11th World OMOSIROI Award for his work on “With the slogan “Cleaning the Cities, Greening the Land”, this project aims to solve environmental problems by restoring the environment by returning urban waste to degraded land. The award ceremony was held on February 22, 2025 at Gran...
2025.1.25
“Le Canard”, newspaper in Niger West Africa, featured the Project activities and result on the Jan.25th 2025 edition. Some of the highlights in the article were: Source: LE CANARD（French language）https://lecanarddechaineniger.com/2025/01/21/restauration-des-terres-degradees-au-niger-utiliser-les-dechets-menagers-pour-fertiliser-les-sols-des-champs/ Check the PDF here. New...
2024.12.23
In Lusaka, the capital of Zambia, we are engaged in pig farming using urban food waste. The food scraps collected are tomato and cabbage leaves that cannot be sold at local markets, Nsima (porridge), vegetable scraps. And other food scraps which are discarded from local restaurants. 15 pigs will eat approximately 100 kg of food scraps in the morning and evening. The excreted...
2024.12.23
It was the first Uganda survey in 6 years. We were also able to revisit the research village, it had been a long time since we met with old friends. Uganda is a country where banana is the staple food. We will conduct agricultural experiments using urban organic waste in three locations in Uganda. Can we restore the soil in the fields that have been devastated by chemical fe...
2024.12.1
Project Leader Oyama gave a general lecture at the Kyoto University Hiroshima Alumni Association. Kyoto University’s Hiroshima Alumni Association is held once a year on the last Wednesday of November at the ANA Crowne Plaza Hotel Hiroshima, and the public lecture is widely open to the public. On November 27, 2024, PL Oyama gave a lecture titled “Waste Saves the Planet:...
2024.11.30
The project have put together a video on how to start a Chikyuken Compost (dry compost type) and uploaded it to Youtube. It is a 4 minutes video. Please check!(Photo 27) How to make Chikyuken Compost (dry compost type) Created by Organic Material Circulation ProjectVideo editing by Kentaro Noda, Supervised by Shuichi Oyama
