Back to recycling

In the 1985 movie Back to the Future, which was a huge hit in Japan and globally, the time travelling car 'DeLorean' was set to travel to the future date of October 21st 2015. In the movie, the 'Delorean' car was fuelled by garbage.

The Tokyo based Japan Environmental Design Co took inspiration from the movie to make October 21st annually "Back to Recycling day!" Japan Environmental Design is working to recycle everything. To take common things around us, after they are used and make them into new similar products. This is the cycle that the company bases their endeavours on. 

On the first day of the anniversary, October 21st 2015, they took some used clothes and saccharified them by recycling technology and turned them into bioethanol. Back to Recycling Day is a day of thinking about how we can reincarnate garbage as a resource rather than just waste and possibly, in the future, devising energy from familiar things such as second-hand clothes and plastics.