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Fig. 17 The strategy for promotion of eco-business in the City of Kitakyushu. Source Author
based on the brochure of the City of Kitakyushu
Through the empirical researches, some of technological seeds from the KSRP
evolved in the Comprehensive Environmental Industrial Complex for industriali-
zation of the environmental technology and zero emission. There are various
recycling companies such as PET bottles, an office equipments, cars, home
appliances, fluorescent tubes, medical devices, and mixed construction wastes in
there, which companies are trying to commercialize recycling technology.
The Kitakyushu Eco-town Project is the first eco-town project approved by the
government in Japan (GEC 2005 ). And also, the Eco-town Center, the Hibiki
Recycling Complex, and the Comprehensive Environmental Industrial Complex
were the first only targeted areas for the eco-town project. This kind of strategic
nature as an environmental model city is also demonstrated in the Advanced Low
Carbon Technology Research and Development Strategic Guidelines which
released on January 2011. The FAIS got a chance to manage the future direction
for low carbon technology research and development in the City.
The guidelines have been formulated to build a research hub for low carbon
technologies and promote local industries featuring the low carbon technologies by