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Nature 444, 262-263 (16 November 2006) | doi:10.1038/444262a; Published online 15 November 2006

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Waste management: One man's trash...

David Cyranoski1

  1. David Cyranoski is Nature's Asian correspondent.

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When landfills overflow, governments need new ways to deal with garbage. David Cyranoski visits a plant in Japan where plasma technology is turning waste into energy.

Michiaki Shigehiro has a rare problem. "I've struggled to find enough garbage," he says, in dead seriousness.

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