150 years after Japan's first railway ran through this very ground. RECOTECH wins the Grand Prix at TAKANAWA PITCH 2026, scaling pool, the data infrastructure for resource circulation, from TAKANAWA GATEWAY CITY

RECOTECH Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director & CEO: Ei Nozaki; "RECOTECH"), which operates pool, the data infrastructure for resource circulation, is pleased to announce that it has won the TAKANAWA Grand Prix, the top award, at TAKANAWA PITCH — the pitch contest held within GATEWAY Tech TAKANAWA 2026, a business-creation event hosted by East Japan Railway Company (held May 14, 2026).

TAKANAWA PITCH is a pitch contest set in TAKANAWA GATEWAY CITY that brings together startups advancing Global Co-Benefits. RECOTECH took the stage as a finalist in the Environment category, presenting the business vision behind pool — the data infrastructure supporting urban resource circulation — its progress in real-world deployment, and its plans for implementation at TAKANAWA GATEWAY CITY.

■ Award Overview

• Award: TAKANAWA Grand Prix
• Event: GATEWAY Tech TAKANAWA 2026 / TAKANAWA PITCH
• Host: East Japan Railway Company
• Venue: TAKANAWA GATEWAY Convention Center (THE LINKPILLAR 1 SOUTH B2F)
• Date: Thursday, May 14, 2026

Theme: Environment

■ pool — The Data Infrastructure for Resource Circulation

pool is the data infrastructure supporting urban resource circulation, connecting weighing, collection and transport, data logging, and recycling end-to-end at the level of each tenant, department, building, and district.

By linking waste weighing, collection and transport, and processing and recycling — historically siloed processes — on a single data platform, pool delivers three kinds of value:

• Incentive design: pay-as-you-discharge billing based on weighing data
• Maximum load efficiency: route optimization enabled by real-time visibility into discharge status ahead of collection
• Data trust: end-to-end traceability from discharge to recycling, generating tamper-resistant ESG data

We've built a structure in which waste generators, haulers, and offtakers all realize these three kinds of value simultaneously, on the same data foundation.

Following citywide rollout across 1,200 facilities in Yokohama, and pilots and full deployments with major commercial facilities and multiple leading real estate developers, pool is now positioned as the core infrastructure for the industrial shift captured in "Turning great consumers into great suppliers."

■ What's Next

Building on this award, RECOTECH aims to launch pilot programs across TAKANAWA GATEWAY CITY and the wider Shinagawa area.