Abstract
Guun Company Limited (hereafter referred to as GUUN) is an industrial waste disposal company headquartered in the Kanazawa Industrial Park in Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture. GUUN is manufacturing fuel mainly from wooden and plastic waste. Mr.Fujieda, the CEO of GUUN, developed the concept, “logistics as the key to sustainable waste disposal and recycling”, and in keeping with this idea the company has conducted an optimization of logistics and has made the most use of ocean transport by boat to supply customers with waste-based fuel since its establishment.
Since the selling price of fuel derived from waste is compared with the prices of oil and coal, it has to be cheaper, and reduction of distribution costs is a major issue in product sales. For waste disposal from local governments, efficient collection and transportation of waste with limited financial resources and limited time is of great significance in order to protect the lives of citizens. In light of this, we introduce and summarize the examples from Yokohama City, Kawasaki City, and our company GUUN, so that they can be used to study the best transportation methods for waste collection and transportation and show the importance of transfer stations and economical large-scale transportation.
