In Japan, everything related to the processing of garbage causes people only positive emotions. Before you send anything to the trash, every Japanese person performs a real ritual! Further on how the Japanese themselves make their country clean, about a program that is being implemented already in kindergarten and school, and why the scavenger profession is one of the most respected in the Land of the Rising Sun!

Incredibly, in Japan, since childhood, they have been taught to save garbage. About recycling waste even make up a fairy tale, where the good fellows have a lesson, as from the old thing to make a new one. In schools, kindergartens and special courses children learn to live in a non-waste society. Of course, playfully.

The whole country has been playing this game for almost half a century. It does not matter where – at work or at home. All the rinses, dried, folded compactly – before being in the garbage can, the Japanese packaging goes through a whole ritual. Such pedantry with garbage is not a cultural feature – a necessity: garbage processing plants can not be coped with on their own. Therefore, children are accustomed to this garbage tetris. And adults – punishment.

“If it’s wrong to sort out the garbage, then it will not be taken away, and then we’ll have to wait another week, keep the packages at home, and we simply do not have a place,” says Miyuki Kaneko.

Each type of garbage is put into transparent bags of a certain color. For example, in one lies the paper. But the most interesting is with oversized garbage. To hand over a TV or a refrigerator, the Japanese have to pay.

About three thousand in terms of rubles. Well, the penalty for a malicious garbage mess – not on that day of the week put bags or not that rubbish – can reach up to a million.

And such austerity works. Otherwise, Japan would simply sink in its waste: each of 130 million people a day produces more than a kilogram of garbage. But here they almost got rid of landfills – there is simply no place for them, 90% of the discarded is utilized.

From the mountain of plastic, you will get new bottles, containers and even uniforms. And in the future – and the form of the Olympic team of Japan. In general, the Olympics, according to the plan of the Japanese, should become an exhibition of the achievements of the Land of the Rising Sun, including in the garbage problem.

A whole box of trash? Medals of the Olympics in Tokyo will be answered by the Japanese. The collection of equipment goes all over the country: colored metals, obtained from players, mobile phones or a recorder. Material for the Olympic Awards and the contribution of each to the future Games.

On the garbage recycling field – the center in Tiba is one of the main players – 32% of the city’s waste takes on a second life, record figures! Takayuki Yamane does not go – she almost dances, proudly showing sorting shops. The profession of the scavenger is now one of the most respected in the country.

“Glass is also almost all processed – from the white and dark we make new bottles, and the colored ones are crumbled and used for road surface, rubberized or in ordinary paving slabs, by the way, our yard is laid out,” says Assistant Director of the Niigama Garbage Recycling Center Takayuki Yamane.

No drop by – careful attitude in Japan and to water resources. Japanese miracle robotic toilets in the first place are very eco-friendly. And here too: ingenious is simple.

“We press the handle and turn on the sink: we washed our hands and the water was not wasted – filled the tank. This and a special drainage system – “tornado” – allow us to save 70% of the water, “explains Nariko Yamashita, the representative of the toilet manufacturer firm.

However, the Japanese present is a well-forgotten Soviet past. It is the experience of the USSR in the use of recyclable materials – scrap paper and scrap metal, which was collected by families, yards, schools and formed the basis of Japan’s anti-pollution concept in the 60’s. Everything that can not be used again, in the furnace. At the same time, the Japanese have learned to burn garbage absolutely safely.

The fight against rubbish brought to the art. The Incinerator in Osaka was designed by Viennese painter Friedrich Hundertwasser. In the fairy-tale tower a factory pipe is hidden, but there is no smoke in it – it is so purified. So anyone can walk through the garden planted here and breathe clean air.

“Look, only one quarter of the plant is a kiln that burns rubbish. Three quarters are cleaning facilities and filters. Therefore, our plant does not pollute the air at all, “the director of the Maishima plant, Shinya Murakami, is proud.

By the way, the garbage of the big city burns in the ovens – electricity is produced, which is fed both by the enterprise and partly by this city itself.

“We also extract iron and aluminum from garbage. Japan is not rich in fossils, and we try to collect and preserve everything that is possible, “Shinya Murakami said.

Even garbage ashes are turned into land-the islands are poured. One of them in Tokyo Bay today is a prestigious area with beautiful architecture. This is a favorite place for the Japanese who walk in the parks among the flowering trees that grew up on yesterday’s pile of rubbish.