I think the Japanese would feel duty-bound to do these sort of things, but I don't know. I suppose it's POSSIBLE for you to do that, because they probably won't check to see that everything is where it is supposed to be or rubbish collection would take too long... then again, I don't think the Japanese would really think of doing something like that.
Actually it is not that different in germany. We just dont put it all in front of our houeses but bring the stuff to special containers.
At home u sort plastic, paper, organic and non-recycleable garbage. Then you bring all your old bottles and cans (without refund) to containers and sort them in colors and cans. But they get cleaned, so you just make sure they arent filthy anymore. There are containers in every town, usually at malls or public places.
Refund bottles and cans -wich are in fact all beverages- are taken back to the stores. You sort them glas (beer bottles for example are usualls sold in a box of 20), cans and plastic bottles.
Now for electronic junk. You have to bring em to a buyback centre (but its without buyback), where you can sort it in Handys, Washmashine etc.
You can also bring old furniture or else to this centres, but they are mostly disposed of at special days on the edge of the road, to get picked up.
For a counrty that has to import all it's raw materials, recycling isn't an option it's a must. Too many western countries don't take recycling seriously, and won't do till our raw materials start to run out.
I live in Canada, but our recycling is pathetic compared to this. Even people in schools when they're faced with the choice of recycling juice boxes, they usually end up throwing it in a garbage can if it's closer or if they're totally ignorant. Food scraps here can go into compost, but only some municipalities actually collect it as that.
Also, if they see a pet bottle in a burnable trash bag, they don't pick up your trash. Instead, they attach an A4 size paper on the trash bag that gives a whole page explanation that there is a wrong item in the the bag. If one city's trash bag (red) is used in another city (green bags), the trash will not be collected either.
For large garbage like old sofas and furniture, the Japanese have to go to the City Office and buy a sticker 300yen ( $4 ) and stick it on the item. If you live on 5th floor, you have to bring your old sofa down to ground floor (1st floor) garbage area. They won't pick it up from 5th floor.
not the same ebverywere in japan , here in hokkaido we have same pamphlets but all glas bottels is in same category, or plastik or..... so on. and in gunma pref it is more easyer, so not the same in all japan
In Leeds, Uk, we have brown bin for garden waste lke cuttings, grass, twigs, etc. Agreen bin for cardboard and plastic (has to have the correct number), and a black bin for everything else. In Sheffield, its blue for card and green for garden. Iget so confused about all this. How do you remember 19 different things - aaaaaaaaaaaaarghhhhhhhhhhhhh!
In the our area of the uk, we have vans that come and pick it up twice a week, here it's just bottles and plastic and they sort it out (different bin for each of those though). I feel for you man :(
Funny we use the blue bags for recyclables and never puncture cans. Obviously it says to discharge the can before puncturing. i didn't see anything about paint and hazardous waste? All in all it would be a piece of cake. Other stuff had to do with personal items, clothing, furniture, electronics. You can hold off on those. Bottles and cans seem to be the biggest issue. Looks like you may need a garage just for all this stuff prior to disposal.
Makes perfect sense. Japanese people are about being disciplined, & if all do this, requires less inefficient cleaning & sorting after the fact. plus i'm sure they don't have numerous endless landfills in Japan. We are lazy compared to the Japanese that can at least wash, sort & package accordingly all those packaging they consume to be recycled. I get sickened by watching people dump all their garbage, including recyclables into the trash. US has no future with these people that don"t care.
Here, (I live in north-west Italy) we're also forced to recycle but it's much easier: 4 "common" categories of garbage whith their respective rubbish bin (and you go to the scrap-yard for "big" things).
But it's often just a faked thing, since I heard some of the truck drivers that, when collecting, they mix everything...I hope they don't mix also in your town: it must take a lot of time to separate everything...
In Finland we separate plastic bottles and glass bottles. Glass bottles are separates to "clear" ones and "colored" ones. So..we have 3 different kinds of bottles too.
I'm impressed how carefully japanese people recycle things!
seriously, you really scared me when i saw you stabbing at that can like that...and really surprised me when nothing happened!!! could it be that i've been lied to my whole life...?????
Awesome. Interesting. The Japanese garbage system might seem crazy but they just want their land to looking good and in top shape. From the looks of this video, they seem to be head first in the recycling business. I have a very materialistic and organized apporach to life since my zodiac sign is Virgo. So abiding by these rules won't be much of a problem.
They are definitely the most organized culture on the planet!! I don't think there is anyone that can even come close! Separating all items into 40 different categories!! All or most of this stuff gets recycled does it not?
Thare are some things I don't get. What's the difference between 6-7? There are just cans in both of them. And what about 11,12, and 13? What's the difference between 3 kinds of glass bottles? On the other hand, what is 15 for? Old electronics and...furniture?
you can kinda see what they are showing...11 is for short bottles 12 is for taller bottles and 13 is for you know Coca Cola, Fanta, Pepsi and so on 6 and 7 seems to be the same 30cl cans in 6 and 50-55cl cans in 7?
and yeah 15 is for old electronics and furniture and bikes and whatnor...stuff you dont need anymore...probably goes to a place where they take apart the stuff so that they later on can recycle the stuff and use it again
@LocalSpambot ..6-ITS aluminum cans! 7 ITS IRON OR metal cans
Triangle sign its aluminum the circle its iron or metal..look at the picture theres a triangle and circle sign.13 - its petbottle 12 its beer,whisky,bottles 11-oil,vinegar bottlesetc..
Coloured glass bottles should never be mixed with clear glass, because one coloured bottle is enough to "stain" about 100kg of clear glass and drop its value. Different colours should not be mixed for the same reason.
Also there are re-usable glass bottles - ie they wash it clean and re-fill it
(that way you buy only contents and not the bottle)
And here you were making plans for the weekend when you suddenly remember you have to rinse some bottles, take of their taps and labels and pierce some pressure cans...
I don't understand why anyone would dislike doing this. It would make me feel so much better for helping the environment. I would love to be able to do this in Romania (where I live) and yet I don't have this opportunity. You should be very grateful for this! I've had this idea since a long time ago, and thought of it as "the future" but it seems Japan really is in the future. We just throw all our garbage together here. We waste a lot less than Americans though.
yeah, in jp take this very serious and its very good. in argentina we can throw the garbage together, but its the same if we separate them because when the garbage truck comes by they put it 2gether =.=
@milesderegalosofi "but its the same if we separate them because when the garbage truck comes by they put it 2gether" I just saw the same here on tv!!!
LOL, jeeze I feel for you. Where I live we can just throw everything that is recyclable into one big bin. Then everything else we can just throw it into the regular trash bin. You know us Americans, if it's easy or we can make it easy we'll do it then.
Just to add something for people going to Tokyo. Its not this many categories in Tokyo and they have very many garbage corners where you dump the grabage and the garbage truck will pick it up. Really good vids btw, keep it up!
I'm a bit curious, I'm doing weight lifting here in Sweden but now when I'm going to Japan I'm thinking of buying dumbbells so I don't have to go to the gym over there. Where do you think I might be able to dump the dumbbells before I go back? :D
Wow, that is amazing! I'm all for recycling. But where I live, it is not offered. We are too far out in the country. All trash goes into one bag, and is picked up. We pay for this service yearly in our tax bill. What happens if you do not staple the bag, or if you don't have a blue trash bag for food scraps, and you use a white one instead?---do you receive a fine? Thanks for sharing. I admire Japan's use of recycling. It is amazing, and admirable.
this is the first i will say this.. "good thing i dont ive in japan" haha..
then again,, i still want to visit this country.. :)
30maisa 1 month ago
It's like in Germany ^^ We have to divide everything and clean the dirty things before put it in the garbage or glass-container.
KintaromOe 3 months ago in playlist Environmental Stuff
whos gonna check if it was YOUR can that wasnt pierced??
EWGFus3r 3 months ago
@EWGFus3r
I think the Japanese would feel duty-bound to do these sort of things, but I don't know. I suppose it's POSSIBLE for you to do that, because they probably won't check to see that everything is where it is supposed to be or rubbish collection would take too long... then again, I don't think the Japanese would really think of doing something like that.
DrownedBeliefs 3 months ago in playlist Environmental Stuff
OMG -___-
kushinbou 4 months ago
Actually it is not that different in germany. We just dont put it all in front of our houeses but bring the stuff to special containers.
At home u sort plastic, paper, organic and non-recycleable garbage. Then you bring all your old bottles and cans (without refund) to containers and sort them in colors and cans. But they get cleaned, so you just make sure they arent filthy anymore. There are containers in every town, usually at malls or public places.
Eckendenker 5 months ago
@Eckendenker
Refund bottles and cans -wich are in fact all beverages- are taken back to the stores. You sort them glas (beer bottles for example are usualls sold in a box of 20), cans and plastic bottles.
Now for electronic junk. You have to bring em to a buyback centre (but its without buyback), where you can sort it in Handys, Washmashine etc.
You can also bring old furniture or else to this centres, but they are mostly disposed of at special days on the edge of the road, to get picked up.
Eckendenker 5 months ago
@Eckendenker
Batteries, gastanks and stuff like that simply go back to the shop.
Im sure i forgot something, but its already 15 different types of "garbage". We germans are pretty japanese, huh?^^
Eckendenker 5 months ago
Thanks for the video ^_^
xtrem04 5 months ago
How do people who don't drive/don 't have a license recycle?
sanochipro 6 months ago
where do you put condoms?
Nnovata 8 months ago
For a counrty that has to import all it's raw materials, recycling isn't an option it's a must. Too many western countries don't take recycling seriously, and won't do till our raw materials start to run out.
pas7680 8 months ago
I feel tempted to just let the garbage collect in my house and never throw it way.
LemonatoR32 9 months ago
what happens if you don't do that? haha
btw, i heard that Japan has been trying to use trash instead of oil to power a car, is that true?
ILUVFFANDKH 1 year ago
I live in Canada, but our recycling is pathetic compared to this. Even people in schools when they're faced with the choice of recycling juice boxes, they usually end up throwing it in a garbage can if it's closer or if they're totally ignorant. Food scraps here can go into compost, but only some municipalities actually collect it as that.
ddtrinketbb 1 year ago
Thanks, this video answered my question when I saw DAISO in US selling an aerosol can puncture. Now I know what it's for.
surewinzz 1 year ago
They gave us a pamphlet in English in our town. It is 17 pages long (not including the index).
kimberlina31981 1 year ago
Also, if they see a pet bottle in a burnable trash bag, they don't pick up your trash. Instead, they attach an A4 size paper on the trash bag that gives a whole page explanation that there is a wrong item in the the bag. If one city's trash bag (red) is used in another city (green bags), the trash will not be collected either.
JesusisLord7771 1 year ago 2
The Japanese sure take the extra mile! ^^
gamer4567 1 year ago
For large garbage like old sofas and furniture, the Japanese have to go to the City Office and buy a sticker 300yen ( $4 ) and stick it on the item. If you live on 5th floor, you have to bring your old sofa down to ground floor (1st floor) garbage area. They won't pick it up from 5th floor.
JesusisLord7771 1 year ago
If the Japanese do something they OVERDO it!
PounceTeazle 1 year ago
@PounceTeazle
Its not overdoing. They just make sure to not waste any still useable ressources.
Eckendenker 5 months ago
not the same ebverywere in japan , here in hokkaido we have same pamphlets but all glas bottels is in same category, or plastik or..... so on. and in gunma pref it is more easyer, so not the same in all japan
aukstas22 1 year ago
In Leeds, Uk, we have brown bin for garden waste lke cuttings, grass, twigs, etc. Agreen bin for cardboard and plastic (has to have the correct number), and a black bin for everything else. In Sheffield, its blue for card and green for garden. Iget so confused about all this. How do you remember 19 different things - aaaaaaaaaaaaarghhhhhhhhhhhhh!
WABBITS8 1 year ago
There are no problems with garbage recycling in the Russia ))))) Just burning or crashing....or graving... Moron's country
AndreyPurtov 1 year ago
In the our area of the uk, we have vans that come and pick it up twice a week, here it's just bottles and plastic and they sort it out (different bin for each of those though). I feel for you man :(
Yoshoku 1 year ago
Funny we use the blue bags for recyclables and never puncture cans. Obviously it says to discharge the can before puncturing. i didn't see anything about paint and hazardous waste? All in all it would be a piece of cake. Other stuff had to do with personal items, clothing, furniture, electronics. You can hold off on those. Bottles and cans seem to be the biggest issue. Looks like you may need a garage just for all this stuff prior to disposal.
TheLivingDeadOne 1 year ago
Makes perfect sense. Japanese people are about being disciplined, & if all do this, requires less inefficient cleaning & sorting after the fact. plus i'm sure they don't have numerous endless landfills in Japan. We are lazy compared to the Japanese that can at least wash, sort & package accordingly all those packaging they consume to be recycled. I get sickened by watching people dump all their garbage, including recyclables into the trash. US has no future with these people that don"t care.
TheLivingDeadOne 1 year ago
@TheJapanChannelDcom "Bet you love your garbage can now" -- No, I hate it even more
istarninwa 1 year ago
Dude! That's what I'd call hardcore recycling...
Here, (I live in north-west Italy) we're also forced to recycle but it's much easier: 4 "common" categories of garbage whith their respective rubbish bin (and you go to the scrap-yard for "big" things).
But it's often just a faked thing, since I heard some of the truck drivers that, when collecting, they mix everything...I hope they don't mix also in your town: it must take a lot of time to separate everything...
arzigogolato1 1 year ago
where can we get those pamphlets? and are there English versions? also don't they have like, garbage trucks or something to pick it up?
GazettExXxVisualKei 1 year ago
@GazettExXxVisualKei
The pamphlets are put in our mailboxes .. trucks pick it all up from a central collection area where we leave it ^_^
TheJapanChannelDcom 1 year ago
@TheJapanChannelDcom Can you scan them with english translations for download or would you fear incarseration?
TheLivingDeadOne 1 year ago
where can we get those pamphlets? and are there English versions?
GazettExXxVisualKei 1 year ago
haha i love the end
amy2779 1 year ago
In Finland we separate plastic bottles and glass bottles. Glass bottles are separates to "clear" ones and "colored" ones. So..we have 3 different kinds of bottles too.
I'm impressed how carefully japanese people recycle things!
sumikatti 1 year ago
I say: This is frikken awesum!
Then,
You Say: No... it isn't.
lol.
JAWdog777 1 year ago
I know this is really organized and clean,but you must spend like hours putting your trash in order 0-0''''''
capsscreen 1 year ago
ahhhh! no!!!! don't puncture pressure cans!!!
seriously, you really scared me when i saw you stabbing at that can like that...and really surprised me when nothing happened!!! could it be that i've been lied to my whole life...?????
loqupol 1 year ago
@loqupol
what might have happened?
RicardoNeves017 1 year ago
man that dose look like alot more work then we have to do here in the states, but you know what I wish we had systems like this.
viatus 1 year ago
Awesome. Interesting. The Japanese garbage system might seem crazy but they just want their land to looking good and in top shape. From the looks of this video, they seem to be head first in the recycling business. I have a very materialistic and organized apporach to life since my zodiac sign is Virgo. So abiding by these rules won't be much of a problem.
Chuloloc 1 year ago
They are definitely the most organized culture on the planet!! I don't think there is anyone that can even come close! Separating all items into 40 different categories!! All or most of this stuff gets recycled does it not?
cloudstrifeification 1 year ago
Thare are some things I don't get. What's the difference between 6-7? There are just cans in both of them. And what about 11,12, and 13? What's the difference between 3 kinds of glass bottles? On the other hand, what is 15 for? Old electronics and...furniture?
LocalSpambot 2 years ago
@LocalSpambot
Yeah, difficult isn't it ^_^
TheJapanChannelDcom 2 years ago 2
you can kinda see what they are showing...11 is for short bottles 12 is for taller bottles and 13 is for you know Coca Cola, Fanta, Pepsi and so on 6 and 7 seems to be the same 30cl cans in 6 and 50-55cl cans in 7?
and yeah 15 is for old electronics and furniture and bikes and whatnor...stuff you dont need anymore...probably goes to a place where they take apart the stuff so that they later on can recycle the stuff and use it again
ScrewFearMe 1 year ago
@ScrewFearMe 6 is for aluminum cans and 7 is for steel cans.
hg23467 1 year ago
@hg23467 nice
ScrewFearMe 1 year ago
@LocalSpambot ..6-ITS aluminum cans! 7 ITS IRON OR metal cans
Triangle sign its aluminum the circle its iron or metal..look at the picture theres a triangle and circle sign.13 - its petbottle 12 its beer,whisky,bottles 11-oil,vinegar bottlesetc..
pajutez 1 year ago
@LocalSpambot
There are iron and aluminium cans.
Coloured glass bottles should never be mixed with clear glass, because one coloured bottle is enough to "stain" about 100kg of clear glass and drop its value. Different colours should not be mixed for the same reason.
Also there are re-usable glass bottles - ie they wash it clean and re-fill it
(that way you buy only contents and not the bottle)
SEThatered 8 months ago
lol japanese trash takes alot of thinking.
frechieguy 2 years ago
And here you were making plans for the weekend when you suddenly remember you have to rinse some bottles, take of their taps and labels and pierce some pressure cans...
What's the fine if you do it wrong?
geezaweebrek 2 years ago
@geezaweebrek
funny :-)
as for penalty.. I don't want to know!
TheJapanChannelDcom 2 years ago
Wow- in Okazaki, we only had 6 bins. It's interesting to see what the different areas do. (^o^)
jellybellyratz 2 years ago
where are you anyway? are all your videos made in that area? probably most of them ? or ....?
D5932 2 years ago
A very good Idea! In Germany the grabage system works similar...
5*
nightskill01 2 years ago
If I'm right they have to do all this because it's so populous there.
Julmuu 2 years ago
I don't understand why anyone would dislike doing this. It would make me feel so much better for helping the environment. I would love to be able to do this in Romania (where I live) and yet I don't have this opportunity. You should be very grateful for this! I've had this idea since a long time ago, and thought of it as "the future" but it seems Japan really is in the future. We just throw all our garbage together here. We waste a lot less than Americans though.
sauron1grenoble 2 years ago
yeah, in jp take this very serious and its very good. in argentina we can throw the garbage together, but its the same if we separate them because when the garbage truck comes by they put it 2gether =.=
milesderegalosofi 2 years ago
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@milesderegalosofi "but its the same if we separate them because when the garbage truck comes by they put it 2gether" I just saw the same here on tv!!!
geezaweebrek 2 years ago
LOL, jeeze I feel for you. Where I live we can just throw everything that is recyclable into one big bin. Then everything else we can just throw it into the regular trash bin. You know us Americans, if it's easy or we can make it easy we'll do it then.
Danandria 2 years ago
AGHHHH!!!!!!! I'm so annoyed of looking at all this!
But still that's better than DUMB ol' America.
geminielf7 2 years ago
um... i think that will be one of my problems if i was to stay in Japan... uugghhh..
torentazos 2 years ago
Just to add something for people going to Tokyo. Its not this many categories in Tokyo and they have very many garbage corners where you dump the grabage and the garbage truck will pick it up. Really good vids btw, keep it up!
JohanHerr84 2 years ago 2
I'm a bit curious, I'm doing weight lifting here in Sweden but now when I'm going to Japan I'm thinking of buying dumbbells so I don't have to go to the gym over there. Where do you think I might be able to dump the dumbbells before I go back? :D
Wingu84 2 years ago
That is a tough one...
maybe give them to someone...
TheJapanChannelDcom 2 years ago
Yayy for recycling ! That's just a bit insane :)
tiannazx3uploadzx3 2 years ago
whats the diffrence between all of the glass bottles?
meatwad10000 2 years ago
PET number..
What type of material it is made of.
TheJapanChannelDcom 2 years ago
oh they just all looked the same
meatwad10000 2 years ago
yeah i know.. they all look the same but... it's NOT... that's just crazy.. but still not stopping me of wanting to live in Japan
torentazos 2 years ago
yeah i wanna live in japan 2
meatwad10000 2 years ago
Many people wants to...
torentazos 2 years ago
If i wanted to throw my car away in what category would it be in? XD
OrenjiKoomori 2 years ago
That would be in the "that is going to be VERY expensive" category!
TheJapanChannelDcom 2 years ago
Wow, that is amazing! I'm all for recycling. But where I live, it is not offered. We are too far out in the country. All trash goes into one bag, and is picked up. We pay for this service yearly in our tax bill. What happens if you do not staple the bag, or if you don't have a blue trash bag for food scraps, and you use a white one instead?---do you receive a fine? Thanks for sharing. I admire Japan's use of recycling. It is amazing, and admirable.
blackberrybunny 3 years ago 10
I agree
yanarene 2 years ago 3
That is such a better system! It's hard work yes, but I'm guessing that each category is carefully examined for use able parts? That is awesome.
OMGpigtails 3 years ago 14