Furniture retailer Nitori Holdings will build a furniture recycling plant in Honjo, Saitama Prefecture, targeting operations in FY2028. The company plans to sort and shred collected furniture and sell the resulting metal, fuel and other resources to external companies.
Nitori Holdings, a major furniture retailer, will build a new plant in Honjo, Saitama Prefecture, to collect and recycle sofas, mattresses, desks and other items. The furniture will be sorted and shredded, with wood waste recycled into building materials and power generation fuel, soft plastics into coal-substitute fuel, and metal into steelmaking feedstock. The recycled materials are ultimately scheduled to be sold to external companies, with the company also aiming to monetize its recycling operations.
The plant site covers approximately 15,100 square metres. Furniture collected from stores and logistics facilities in the Kanto region will be sorted, with foreign materials removed before shredding. Operations are expected to begin in FY2028.
Going forward, wood waste is expected to be recycled into building materials and biomass power generation fuel, soft plastics into coal-substitute fuel, and metal into steelmaking feedstock. All of these materials are expected to be sold to external companies and other buyers.
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