The technology will explain to all comers how to sort out the garbage properly so that the utilities take it out for recycling

The administration of Tokyo’s Nakano district has developed a special mobile application for foreigners to help them figure out how to properly dispose of garbage in Japan. The program can be downloaded for free, it is available including in English and Chinese.

According to the authors of the idea, it was decided to create this app, since in the region every year more and more foreigners become. Moreover, Nakano residents often throw garbage out of schedule: in Japan, certain types of garbage – flammable, fireproof, plastic bottles, aluminum and tin cans and so on – are taken out on certain days of the week.
With the help of the application, anyone can figure out which category, for example, is a bottle of shampoo or a can of tuna fish. This habitual daily procedure can seriously puzzle anyone who will first encounter a Japanese garbage sorting system, thanks to which the country’s authorities have long been able to organize an effective organization of its processing or incineration.

Usually it is necessary to take out garbage on the street to the gate of the house, where it is taken out on a certain schedule several times a week. At the same time, it is necessary to throw out garbage only in transparent bags. If the public service employees see that the package contains not only plastic bottles but also beer cans, they simply will not take it and can mark it with a marker on the need to sort the garbage.

Depending on the area, there are usually different rules for handling garbage. So, with plastic bottles, it is often necessary to remove labels and covers that go into flammable waste. The rule of good taste is to wash cans of beer or canned food, and on a bag with wooden skewers for shish kebabs or shards of broken dishes – stick a warning about the presence of sharp or stitching objects inside.

A separate conversation concerns large-sized garbage. All that does not fall under a strictly defined size, you can not simply throw it out. To do this, in the nearest convenience store you need to buy a ticket for the export of large garbage, and put, for example, an old chest of drawers on the street on certain days and times, pasting the appropriate coupon to it.
Everyone who comes to Japan for the first time will certainly notice the almost complete absence of garbage cans in the streets. Only next to the vending machines for the sale of drinks are urns for cans or bottles.

Sometimes urns for all types of garbage come across at major metro stations or recreation areas on toll roads. In other cases, when you want to throw out a candy wrapper from a chocolate or packing from a ready-made dinner, you’ll have to recall Cicero’s catchphrase, which he attributed to the ancient Greek sage Biant from the city captured by the Persians: “I carry my everything with me.” It remains to be surprised how it is possible to maintain almost perfect purity in the streets.

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