Incineration Plant

If you want to bring a large amount of garbage directly to the waste incineration plant, you need to apply to the Resources and Waste Recycling Bureau office in your ward.
For detailed information, see the link. In addition, a fee of 13 yen per kilogram will be charged.

Cashless payments are available for payment at four factories, Minamihonmoku landfill.

You can visit the incineration plant if you apply in advance.
For details, please refer to the page of the factory you wish to visit. You can also see parts that are hard to see in the tour with images and animations.

In addition, "Children's Adventure College" and "Mio Io! Events such as "Festa" and "Fureai Tour" will encourage citizens to enjoy learning about the operations of incineration plants and separation of garbage, and to recognize that incineration plants are indispensable facilities in their lives. We are holding. For information on the event, please visit the website of each factory.

In order to solve the garbage problem, it is important to promote the suppression of garbage generation and reuse and recycling. On the other hand, incineration plants are indispensable facilities for maintaining various economic activities in the city, conservation in the living environment of citizens, effective use of landfills, and efficient collection and transportation.
Currently, there are the operating Tsurumi Plant, Asahi Plant, Kanazawa Plant, Tsuzuki Plant, and Hodogaya Plant in Yokohama City.

At the incineration plant, various equipment and equipment are installed, such as incineration equipment that burns garbage, receiving equipment that accepts garbage, and exhaust gas treatment equipment that treats exhaust gas. In order to ensure stable operation, daily inspection, maintenance, and repair of equipment is essential.

Resources and Waste Recycling Bureau is implementing various initiatives to realize a decarbonized society.

Yokohama City, Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd., Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Environment and Chemical Engineering Co., Ltd. are conducting a joint CCU demonstration project in Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama by transporting CO2 separated and collected from exhaust gas from waste incineration plants to Tokyo Gas' methanation demonstration facility and using it as a raw material for methanation.
Through demonstrations through regional collaboration, we are working to improve and expand the use of CCU technology, and to commercialize e-methane (e-methane).

We are promoting a demonstration test with Toagosei Co., Ltd. to reduce local carbon dioxide emissions by using steam that does not emit carbon dioxide generated by incineration of garbage in the region.
By supplying steam generated from the incineration of waste at the Tsurumi Plant to the Yokohama Plant of Toagosei Co., Ltd., and replacing fossil fuel-derived energy consumption with zero CO2 vapor from the Tsurumi Plant to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and verifying it.
Currently, we are preparing for supply.

The electricity generated at the garbage incineration plant is "environmentally friendly energy (electricity)" that does not emit CO2. In addition to public facilities such as the city hall, the 18th ward government building and nearby sewage treatment facilities, this "environmentally friendly energy" is used by city businesses as "Hamako Electricity * 1", resulting in the use of electricity. We are reducing CO2 emissions.
Since fiscal 2023, the Green Line has been operating without emitting CO2 by utilizing "environmentally friendly energy" on the Yokohama Municipal Subway Green Line.

※1 Hamako Electricity: Efforts to locally grown and consumed the value created from burnable garbage in the city by supplying the value of zero CO2 emissions added to electricity generated at waste incineration plants to local businesses through retail electricity providers.
※2 Non-fossil Certificates ： A certificate issued by a national certification machine that proves electricity that does not use fossil fuels such as oil (the value of zero CO2 emissions). In facilities that utilize non-fossil certificates, CO2 can be regarded as zero even if electricity generated at thermal power plants that emit CO2.

※Please see the link below for the results of exhaust gas measurement.
“Maintenance Record Form for Incineration Plants (Exhaust Gas Measurement Results)”