In a Japanese-style circular economy society, products are not simply thrown away after use. They are collected as resources, reused and recycled, and brought back into circulation.

Designing products with their entire lifecycle in mind is essential. This includes making products easy to collect, using recyclable materials, and creating effective systems for collection and sorting.

It is also important to combine a variety of solutions, including material recycling, chemical recycling, the use of recycled materials, and biomass-based materials, to keep finite resources circulating sustainably.

What matters is not simply having these technologies and systems in place, but connecting them into a single circular system that works across society. To show how this works, CLOMA has created a circularity diagram that illustrates its vision of a resource-circulating society.

In the Japanese-style circular economy society envisioned by CLOMA, companies provide products and services designed for circularity, municipalities support efficient collection and recovery systems, and consumers make sorting, reuse, and repair part of everyday life. With everyone playing their part, resources circulate throughout society.

At the heart of this vision are traditional Japanese values: caring for limited resources, respecting nature and the things we use, and building better lives through cooperation. Based on these values, CLOMA CITY presents a future where resource circulation becomes a natural part of daily life and industry, creating a society where clean oceans and better lives exist in harmony.