How Japanese people throw out trash and what are “trash” days

Separate waste collection is practiced in many states. The Russians, unfortunately, are still only on the way to this culture of waste disposal. Either laziness is inherent in the mentality, or a lack of understanding, what is the use of waste separation.

In Japan, separate waste collection (as, probably, everything else) is put on the level of a certain philosophy of life. Moreover, this did not take centuries. Even some half a century ago, Japanese cities simply "choked" in the mountains of accumulated garbage, until finally the country's authorities paid attention to the problem. And - lo and behold! - solved it very quickly! (A question from the average Russian: "Why, was that possible?")

The principles of garbage separation in individual Japanese prefectures are approached in different ways. But the general waste categories are basically the same. Garbage is divided depending on how it is recycled or recycled.

Waste is divided into:

- combustible (garbage from a vacuum cleaner, wood, food waste, fabric);

- non-combustible (batteries, plastic, rubber, metal and ceramic items);

- recyclable (paper, glass, household organic compounds, out of order equipment);

- oversized.

These are just the main subspecies. And within the same prefecture, you can find a couple of dozen containers for collecting various garbage in the basement of an ordinary Japanese residential "anthill". For example, somewhere you can throw a bottle into a certain container, and somewhere - only without a lid, there is a separate container for them.

It is also interesting that in Japan there are so-called "garbage" days, when a certain type of waste is taken out on one day of the week. So, if you took out several glass bottles on the day of plastic collection, then you can run into vigilant neighbors. No, they will not "snitch", they will just carefully put your bag under the door of the apartment.

Within the area (area of ​​the city with a population of one million) where I live, I can only observe individual containers for collecting plastic bottles. But even they are often filled with ordinary food waste. That's what's wrong with us, huh?

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