Seven-Eleven Japan recycles food into feed

To do this, the biggest convenience store chain in
Japan has tied up with AgriGaia System Co in Yachimata, Chiba Prefecture, which
will send trucks to all of some 1,000 Seven-Eleven stores in Tokyo’s 23 wards
every day to collect food products unsold beyond expiry dates.

Recycle-loop
Seven-Eleven Japan President Toshiro
Yamaguchi said the company will consider using meat from pigs and chickens fed
under the program in lunch and other food products for sale at the store chain
so as to “establish a recycle loop.” The retailer operates a nationwide network
of about 11,730 convenience stores as of 2006. Each generates some 15 kilograms
of garbage per day.

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