Yokohama City and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation will start initiatives to realize a resource-recycling eco-cycle society.

Yokohama City is promoting initiatives in cooperation with citizens, companies, universities, etc., centered on the Yokohama SDGs Design Center (hereinafter referred to as the "Design Center"), with the aim of realizing "SDGs Future City, Yokohama".
Yokohama City and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Makoto Takashima; hereinafter "SMBC") have concluded an agreement to cooperate with each other in order to build a Yokohama-style "large city model" that aims to integrate environmental, economic and social issues by effectively utilizing waste such as food loss and revitalizing local communities through such initiatives.
In the future, as one of the projects of the Design Center, we will proceed with specific initiatives with the cooperation of SMBC in building partnerships with companies with technologies that contribute to this initiative and supporting companies in financial aspects such as finance.