By YUSUKE NAGANO/ Staff Writer
February 12, 2020 at 17:28 JST
Mountains of plastic garbage await processing at a facility in Tokyo's Ota Ward. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Tokyo municipalities that refrain from burning plastic waste and recycle it instead will get subsidies from the capital's metropolitan government starting in April. [Read More]
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