Trash and Recycling

英語だけーすみません。

Trash and recycling is much more difficult to do here, than in America. But presumably they also recycle more materials.

There are 6 different bins for trash and recycling - cans, PET bottles, other plastic, papers, burnable, and unburnable. So if I drink a beer from a can, it goes into the can bin - easy enough, eh?

But if I drink a bottle of water, the bottle goes into the PET bottle container, AFTER you remove the outer label and the plastic top - both of which go into the plastic bin. They do make this somewhat easier, by perforating the label so it can be easily removed and labeling each piece with what bin it would go into.

A few days ago, I made some udon which came in a container that came with an aluminum pie plate for a bottom. In America, we would put this with cans - an aluminum tray will recycle perfectly with an aluminum can. But here, it goes into the unburnable bin, which presumably goes off to the landfill. Oh, well.

So, as you can imagine, it is very common to see a student standing above the bins and trying to figure out which each piece of trash goes in...