My friend who lives in an apartment in Tokyo told me that one time he was too lazy too to sort his waste so se didn't obey the waste collection schedule, i.e. monday for plastic waste, wednesday for paper, etc. Instead he just put all his waste into one bag and put it into the communal bins before leaving the apartment. What happened was, when he got back later in the evening, he found that his garbage was already sitting in front of his apartment door. Apparently the trash pickup guys went into his garbage bag and found his address from a food delivery receipt which he put inside that bag. Lol.
When the people don´t recycle properly the people who get the trash will have to do it. And so of the people don´t recycle they might get their trash back =)
+Pyroharpyful That's probably because their truck collected only cardboards, which doesn't stink and looks like easy job for almost anyone and also because he's Justin Bieber of course! :D (I think he's just joking about the name.)
+Treget Letterwood I know someone who doesn't separate their waste properly all the time and I've never heard of their garbage being returned. But recycling is usually left up to the wards (there are 23 in Tokyo), so what is acceptable and not can vary from place to place.
what a great dad!! i love it when parents spend time doing productive / real- life / educational activities rather than just giving them mobile apps and computers games !! your kids will be mad at u for a day but appreciate it in the long haul. what an inspiration !!
Japanese people for the most part take recycling and nutrition seriously so they learn very early. Their culture fascinates me and seem totally awesome.
I live in Spain, I am 30 and I've been recycling forever. Here everyone does it, we have specific containers and clean points in the streets and neighborhoods were we can take our trash to, and at home (at least where I live) everyone has several bins for different stuff. Its much easier to do it as you go instead of going through your waste at the end of the day. If you have different bags or containers for different things it just becomes a second nature. Its super easy. Here in my city we have almost in every street at least five containers, one for organic trash (food), another for random trash (dirty napkins, femenine products, dirty bags or boxes, etc), another for plastic and cans, one for paper and cardboard, and one for glass bottles. Then you can take batteries to certain stores and malls where they have a place for it, or take it once a week to a specific place in the neighborhood where there is a person with a van that works for the city council and takes batteries, cables, small devices, oil and the things that you don't know where to put. Also for clothes and furniture, if its in a decent condition there is an association that you can call and they go to your home and take everything. Then they clean and fix what can be fixed, and sell it for a small price to people in need.
I really am a big fan of the channel and you and your lovely family. What a great father and what a great way for your children to learn things and teach the world about their culture. Wish there were more channels like this . Love and light !
In the UK we have national recycling schemes, but it's a lot simpler. You have two (or sometimes three) large outdoor bins for your rubbish. The black bin is for general waste. The blue bin is for recyclable waste, like plastic, paper, cardboard, cans. You don't need to sort the recyclable stuff into categories, I believe there are people who do it at the big centres where it all goes, but you are supposed to clean all bottles and cans. If you have a garden, you may also have a third brown bin, which is for compostable waste, so garden trimmings, vegetable cuttings, tea bags, shredded paper etc. If you put the wrong thing in the blue bin, they won't take it. Instead you get a big red sticker on your bin saying what items cannot be placed in that bin, and you have to empty it out for next time (I get angry because SOMEONE in my area keeps dumping general rubbish in my blue recycling bin, which means they don't take it and I have to fish out all their nasty rubbish) The blue bin and black bins are taken every two weeks, so one week it will be the general waste collection and the following week will be the recycling. I don't know how often they take the brown bin because I don't have one. Stuff like glass can't be put in the blue recycling bin, you have to take it to bottle banks. Often community centres and supermarket car parks have these, but I think for convenience most people just chuck glass in with the general waste for the black bin, rather than remembering to load up the car and take it to the supermarket. There are usually also banks for textiles there, too. For batteries, in some shops I've seen battery recycling points for you to leave your dead batteries. For plastic bags, to try and limit the amount people use, shops must charge at least 5p per bag. Many supermarkets will also take back any old plastic bags to recycle. And for big waste, like old furniture etc, you need to contact your local council and pay a fee to have it collected. Some places don't do the "kerbside recycling" as it's called, though - my sister used to live in a big tower block, and they just had giant communal bins like dumpsters that everyone used. There weren't any separate bins, so if you wanted to recycle you had to sort it all yourself and take it to a recycling centre yourself (which I don't think many people do... cos hey, people are lazy lol).
+rexana different parts of uk also have different colours. I have grey bin for general waste, blue and recyclable stuff and green bin for garden rubbish like grass cuttings
+Vigilantiee I remember I was blown away when I found out different areas have a different colour scheme. It's so natural for me to associate the green bin with general waste and brown with recycling.
That sounds like my Mother's place. She has separate bins for all the recyclables that she takes to the recycling center, a big green bin for everything else and a big brown bin in the summer for yard waste. Also she saves all of the water/soda/juice bottles and cans and takes them to a redemption point where they sort and count them. Each one is worth 5 cents so if you take them 3-4 times a year it really adds up. I used to take them and would come away with $70 or more. The only annoying thing is the 5 cent each charge is already taken out as part of the cost when you but it so you've already spent the money once but you do get it back which is nice.
Hello! I love your videos! I am from Norway, an island 100km south of Oslo, the capitol city. We are recycling a lot, like paper/cardboard, plastics, glass/metal, and biodegradeble/compostables. Outside our house (most people in this aerea lives in bungalows or 2-3 appartment houses with gardens around, we have garbage bins. We have 5 different! Orange lid is for glass and metal, brown lid is for food leftovers, white lid is for plastics and green lid is for the rest. Once a week a large truck is collecting from the bins, but only the food leftovers gets collected every week. The rest gets collected every 3 weeks, on a rotating schedule. Things like paint, batteries must be delivered special places. We fill up the car every now and then and drive to the local recycling station, where we deliver broken electric products, big heaps of plastic or paper, broken furniture, building materials and so on. All is free to deliver, no fee. BUT you have to pay a little fee for things that are not sorted, as if you fill up a big garbage bag with unsorted stuff, you have to pay for each bag. I love the way our recycling works here!
Oh, I forgot the pet bottles, they get recycled at a store, where we get money for each bottle. Also aluminium cans. Around 20 yen per bottle/can, a bit more for large bottles (1,5 litres).
In Germany in the citys every house has a bin for paper/cartons, a bin for waste, a bin for organic waste, and a bin for recycleable waste.. Many bottles have "Pfand" which means that if you buy the bottle you have to pay about 8-25 cents for that bottle and when you bring it back to the store you get that money back (So most people don´t throw them away, but recycle them) You can throw away batteries at almost any store that sells batteries or at special bins that are spread accros the city.. Glas and Cans are also put in special containers which are spread accros the city.. Normaly you can reach one in 5-10min walk of your house If you don´t live in the city you also have to throw away your paper/cartons, and recycleable waste into containers, which arre often far away from your house (if you don´t have a car) And many people outside the city have a "Komposthaufen" where they put al their organic waste on and then it turns into earth wich can be used in the garden
It seems at 10:09 that they have something like Pfand as well in that Japanese municipality, but the German thing that I’d really like to see expanding more (even in Germany itself) is the Mehrwegzeichen system. Reuse is so much better for saving resources than recycling, but DIY methods such as the ones presented at 11:49 are obviously limited in their ability to replace new products. Empty containers of all sorts should be ideally reused for the same purpose till they brake.
Very similar situation in Belgium. But as for Singapore, trash gets picked up every day and burned. Recycling is done in name only. Reason? Because of bugs like cockroaches and ant colonies. (And because SG citizens are lazy and uneducated about trash recycling, but *shush* I didn't say anything.)
I have been enjoying all of your videos, and learning much about Japanese family life, culture, and society. These are nice and compact, very entertaining and educational. While I also enjoy the NHK Documentry Series "Japanology Plus One", I find your channel much easier to watch and learn from. But this episode on recycling, is by far your best one yet! Thank you! I live in NE Ohio, in the US, and we have been recycling here since about 1970. It was voluntary and you had to transport your sorted paper/cardboard, glass, and metals to a local Recycling Center. Plastic recycling was not readily available until the late 1990's. But now most communities offer (or even require) garbage sorting and recycling services. (Here in Akron, we must separate all garbage into paper, glass, metal, plastic, and solids, but they must all be placed inside a large plastic garbage bin that is put on the tree lawn once a week for collection by the city using a truck with an arm that picks up and dumps the container automatically.) Living by the 3 R's (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) is a great way to minimize one's footprint. Great video! Please keep 'em coming!
Hi Guys, I was in Japan last year and realised that Japan is a very different world and way ahead of the rest of the world in every imaginable aspect of life. I wish to be able to move to Japan ASAP. I've been watching video's on youtube about Japan and MUST say that you deserve a big well done for making the best, most useful and informative video's without commercialising your good job, very honest and dignified. Keep it going. wish you all the best
Hi Greg and Aiko. Thank you for showing this video. I'm moving to Tokyo in a few months (as my husband now works there) and this is tremendously helpful since waste management is not thoroughly and efficiently done where I'm from. I hope I'd bump into you when I move there!
It looks like a good recycling practice! In Brisbane where I live we usually have two types of waste bins for household purposes- general waste and recycle items. We don't need to sort them out, we just bin them.
Wolfcchi Yes.Good to have people checking about it.I don't use any plastic vessels.I usually go to farmer's market to get my fruits and vegetables and carry em in a cloth bag ,so no plastic. I don't drink anything on retail shelf ,only water and fresh juice. I try to buy stuff that doesn't come in a plastic bag or cover, it's very difficult.I own an electric car and a scooter.I plant trees where ever possible. I am a vegetarian I do consume diary products and eggs though .I produce very less plastic waste from my home and i live a very simplistic life no luxury. I do drink, smoke weed once in a while.I have solar PV's in my home.I am called crazy and people don't like me much, especially the ones who litter. :-p
Nath N I feel so ashamed because here in Australia we just shove whatever we think is recycle in the bin...but everything in Japan is so much more advanced. EVEN THEIR WASHING MACHINES like in the other videos where you can use bathwater through the spin cycle.
Wolfcchi Be the change you want to be.Rest will follow. Good Luck.Don't worry about the washing machine that's too much for even a freak like me to digest .Good Luck!
Where I live in the US my city has curbside recycling along with the usual trash pickup. It used to be small blue bins, but now everyone gets a large, bright blue rolling bin the same size as the dark green trash bins. Unfortunately, I live in an apartment that doesn't get curbside service but instead has a contracted company that provides a dumpster for our garbage. That means I also do not get curbside recycling and have to take my recyclables to a city provided facility. There used to be more around town, but there are fewer now and none are convenient for me, but I still do it. We can recycle glass, various plastics, various metal cans, cardboard, and paper. In addition to keeping those things separate, we usually have to separate different colors of glass. Usually mine looks a lot like yours in this video by the time I finally decide to take it in! :D Really enjoying your videos, by the way. Discovered your channel a couple of weeks ago and started watching. Thanks!
This is so cute to see you and Aiko do things together! It warms my heart! Visiting Japan is the top thing on my bucket list! It’s things like this that gets me interested in Japanese culture, and this channel is very informative! I just wanted to show my appreciation for your channel!
In America you usually have a green or blue bin next to the garbage bin outside. Inside is usually either plastics or papers but most of the time there's both lol. Glass bottles are usually done differently I think but most are just thrown away or used again for other purposes like holding grease after cooking, pencil holder, pot, etc.
Mr. Saif Actually, I've heard that in France (I think) there are places where you can find about 6, 7, 8 different bins. Those are like green, blue, yellow, red, grey, violet and brown coloured... pretty amazing.
in czech rep. we can recycle but in the end there is still people re-recycling hired by trash company in their complex ...but japan with wraping bananas or apples in plastic one by one... there is no way they can outweight it by sorting their trash. It so much waste beeing made every single day
I go out sometimes and clean up trash around our house. I even pick up the little things, and it makes me feel awesome. One plastic object can end an animal's life. Think about that the next time you see a plastic bag.
Great video. It's so inspirational how they do it in Japan. Many people often think that recycling is really impossible but it's just so amazing how Japanese people devote their time in this.I Will subscribe to your channel, your videos are amazing and inspirational.
In Indonesia, sometimes it's different for every city to separate garbage in many categories, sometimes cities government provide trash can in 5 categories, another could be 3 or 2 categories in public area, like in the park, downtown, market, etc... but here's the reality : the garbage collector by government put it in one place , so the trash categories didn't usefull at all here lol... for neighborhood or household trash, we put the trash in one.... also, in some region there's a bank for the trash, so, you bring the trash to the bank, and you get the money in to your account ... and some people here save the trash and separate them, for box, glass, plastic, and wait for tukang rombeng (private trash pickers) accross your home, so you can sell your waste to them and make a deal then get money... sorry for my bad english lol
Hey! I don't know if needed captions for this since it's a reupload, but I went ahead and captioned them. I really love your channel and all the videos you put up, so if you're interested I'm more than happy to help out with captioning! Just my small contribution to the amazing contribution you've made to TH-cam.
In few states of malaysia, we just started this program. I really hope people will take time to do this sorting garbage thing seriously here. If we do together, we can be like japan too :)
Just found this channel...it is so cute. My kids only watch a couple of episodes and they love it. We'll binge watch this weekend. We are from Texas, USA. Recycling isn't required here...but there are special dumpsters around town where you can throw away paper and cardboard. And of course there are recycling centers that you can go up to and leave stuff (and get money for). Also, in my area, there isn't a trash pick up option. Question: What if you're out and about around town? Do you have to break apart your bottles and stuff?
This video honestly makes me feel a lot better. I'm applying to jobs to teach English in Japan and the recycling program was like the one thing I'm always freaked out about because I know its so meticulous. So seeing someone that lives there say "I don't always know what i'm doing either" gives me comfort.
I love this video, I am big on recycling here in the United States. It is a lot simpler here with less rules. But here is how I recycle. When I have aluminum cans I rinse them out, dry them and crush them. I put them in little plastic bags(we usually save these up for a year, then turn them in at once and get money for drinks at a party) With plastic bottles same thing, Rinse, dry , and crush then put in a bag. When the bag is full, I tie it up and put it in the recycling bin on my porch. ( I also put plastic pieces or bags in there too) I also rinse glass bottles/jars and put them in the recycling too. With any cardboard boxes in the kitchen, I break apart and then leave in the kitchen in a certain place till I transfer it. Once a week I put everything in the recycling bin on my porch downstairs and in the big city issued recycling bin that a truck with a claw picks up. (yes all different categories goes in one big bin and to a sorting center) Anything that is not recyclable goes into my green garbage bin that the city collects the same way. If something does not fit in the bins, then you can request a special pick up(same with any tree branches from yard work or after storms) Some people also have a compost pile for their leftover food and eggshells but that is not possible at my apartment.
Woah, loads of work! In the UK, I'm provided with green bags (recycling) and pink bags (rubbish) by my local council, everything goes in one of the two, and they are collected on alternating Mondays. Paper, cardboard, glass, metal and plastic go in the green bag, and you can also recycle bags of clothes, small electrical items and batteries separately. Most of my waste goes on recycling day. I put mostly old food, sanitary products and waste from my pets (poo, hay and shavings) in the pink bag. You can also put food in a food bin for composting, but I don't bother as I live alone so I don't have much. And you can recycle garden waste (for an extra fee), but I don't have a garden. You can have large items collected for a fee, or take them to the dump for free.
*Aiko's so adorable. I can't even handle it.* "You want me to do like this? *tips over trash can so stuff falls out*" "Well, you've already done it now, so yeah." Well played, Aiko. Well played. 😏
This would encourage people not to buy things with an EXCESS amount of packaging! That is a big problem here in the U.S. Manufacturers love to add extra to make the products look bigger. A lot of items can be bought with no packaging or you could just bring your own reusable bag.
Yes thats true! Its totall unnecessary to pack everything into plastic. But in Japan they also do that.. like selling single apples and other fruits and wrapping them in styropor-like stuff, so that they don´t get any scratches... And if you buy something at a store in the US you get thousands of tiny plastic bags where they put your stuff in.. Almost noone brings his own bag,... In Germany at many stores you have to pay for the plastic bags and some don´t even offer plastic bags anymore but only paperbags or gunny bags.. THere are even stores that don´t pack their things at all but the people have to bring their own jars, bottles etc... (The store is called "unverpackt").. WIth that you can also buy the excact amount of stuff you need =)
Marion Mielke That is a great system and is something that they should have in the U.S. but don't forget that the corporations make the laws here. In fact they write the "news".
rockshot100 Yes thats true, but still everybody can decide by his own, which company he supports... And everyone can bring their own bags for shopping... If many people start bringing their own bags, or start asking for paperbags etc. the companies would adapt... In Germany it was also a long way.. 10 years ago every store would offer you plastic bags.. a few years ago they started to charge 10-30 cents for each plastic bag and started to sell gunny bags and other reuseable bag.. And since 2-3 years almost every clothing store uses paper bags instead of plastic bags... Things like this of course take their time, but we only have this one earth to live on, so everyone should try their best to help =)
Marion Mielke I don't know how many people are going to do this minimizing of waste voluntarily. There is no incentive to change these habits and more encouragement to keep up buying over-packaged products, at least here in the U.S.
rockshot100 Yes but if everybody says "it won´t matter, if i change something, because other people won´t do that, and one person is never going to change something", then nothing will ever change.. At least everyone should try =)
Our country (The Netherlands) can learn a lot from yours. Our stuff does not have to be washed out. We have a container for paper, one for greens (waste food if you choose to throw it away and garden greens). A big plastic bag for plastic, but since a short time milkcartons can go in there too. Also all the caps go into the same bag for plastic. And the last container is for like tissues, tin cans and everything else. This is what we collect at home. Which the garbage trucks pick up once a week or 2 weeks. Different days for different garbage. For things like batteries there are places/bins to 'dump' them around supermarkets. Oh and outside there are places where you can throw all your glass away, sorted on color.
One thing a few of my friends thought was odd was that in my state we pay a $0.05 deposit for each bottled/canned drink we buy that can be returned, it gets added on to your total purchase price when you pay, and we then return them to the crushing machines similar to the one in the video, and then you get $0.05 for each one you return, my cousin brings hers in pre-crushed in her state and is paid by weight, so she was very fascinated by the bottle return machines. We have a recycling service that comes to the house, I haven't looked into whether or not it's free in my town, but I generally procrastinate, so I take mine in by driving it down to the recycling center myself, since it can end up being a lot of stuff. Some things are lacking and I feel like a few things just aren't recycled here that are able to be in other countries or states.
These videos are a great way to view Japanese daily life and also to get the kids involved in their chores/housework eh? Recycling here is done in two lidded tubs. One is for paper, bottle shaped plastics with a 1 or 2, batteries and small cardboard while the other one is for tin/aluminum cans, glass and overflow small cardboard. Larger cardboard has to be broken down and put under the tubs out on the curb/driveway. Anything not recyclable or if the plastic is a clamshell or doesn't have a mouth smaller than the bottom goes to the trash while kitchen waste can be composted if you want. It just has to be away from the house a bit because of bears, we have brown bears and grizzly bears where I live.
The bottles of water are to reflect light. In areas that lack adequate street lighting, people will place the bottles near poles or walls so that the headlights of a car will reflect off of the bottles and the bottle will light up surprisingly brightly.
In Seattle, WA, in addition to garbage bins we have recycling that you just chuck all clean recyclables into without need for sorting (we used to keep glass separate, but they changed that a few years back) and we also have yard waste/compost bins into which we are heavily encouraged to toss all compostable food waste. Sorting like this (trash, recyclable, and compostable) is even required by the city in restaurants. Rules aren't quite so strict outside the city though.
Wow it's amazing how well they recycle! Over here in Australia everything that's "recyclable" all just goes in one bin and isn't separated from paper, glass or plastic it all goes in one! I think we could learn something from this!
Wow! In Boston I lived with some great people who recycled but it was never at this level! We just threw it in the blue bin and hoped for the best. It would be such a great learning tool for everyone to learn a little more like this because it helps not only yourself but those who pick up our messes!
Hey, I don't know about else where in Canada but my neighborhood has a community compost site, things like food waste and yard waste can be picked up on specific days and put in a big compost bin with worms and other creepy crawlers. And any one can come and get compost for free. Also their is Christmas trees program where every one leaves their tree outside and the city collects them and uses them as wind barricades along the skating trail on the river, some are burnt in shelters by skating trails, out door hockey rinks and toboggan slides, the trees that are left over after all that are turned into wood chips and used in city parks. Otherwise we've 2 bins one for trash and another for recyclables, green and blue respectively. their is a pick up once a week, and the time of day that the pick up is around depends on the area, My area is Monday between 8am to 1pm.
I remember every time we travel to Asia, there are always disposable items (most notably packaging from purchasing anything from a drink from the street, to items from Department Stores, etc.) We actually are embarking on living a zero-waste lifestyle here in the U.S. E.g. we don't purchase soda/any drinks that comes in plastic bottle/containers, we use reusable plastic containers to buy items from grocery (such as produce, etc.). We buy second-hand items before purchasing new things and before "throwing" old items that are not recyclable/combustible, we donate those. It is a slow going process but we are going. I know it is not realistic in Japan -- when I cook Japanese food, many of the seasonings, salad dressings, oils, soy sauces, even natto come in their own little packaging (just think of how many separate packaging a pack of natto has: the styrofoam, the small packet of the sauce, and yet another small packet for mustard, AND yet another plastic packaging that keeps the packs of styrofoam together). In any case, I am glad to have watched this video, I think Japan has one of the more advance waste management system in Asia. Thank you!
In Canada, we have recycling depots where we take bottles, cans and glass and get money in return. They also take old electronic devices and batteries, even different types of lightbulbs and their fixtures, but we don't get money for those.
Wow! I love how important recycling is in Japan. It's amazing how much more work needs to go into it, than here in America. We have curbside pick up 1 day a week for everything you put out, and also centers where you take it yourself. When I go take care of my recycling, a lot of things are just lumped together, barely broken down, and full of things that aren't actually recyclable. Plastic bottles can be, but not the lids, it's frustrating. They are grouped into categories - glass by color, tin, aluminum, plastics, cardboard and newspaper, and some electronics. If recyclable materials are soiled by oils or foods, they can not be recycled...like pizza boxes..or unclean containers. I wish we could make recycling more predominant here, it's so important for helping our planet! In my state of Pennsylvania, we do not receive any money for recycling, which I think would give so many more people incentive to do so! I love that the styrofoam containers are used as planters! Thanks for sharing!
I live in New Jersey and every township has different rules for recycling. I live in Ewing Township and they issued us a yellow and a green bin. Yellow is for plastic and glass and green is for cardboard and paper. If you want to go above and beyond, then you have to find a recycling center. It's much simpler but that doesn't mean that it's better for the environment.
We used to have a quite complicated recycling system around where I live. Now usually, here in Germany trash is seperated into plastic, paper, anything from plants (banana peels, left over coffee powder from brewing coffee, etc.) and any other forms of trash. These are picked up at the house and collected in large containers for which the cities pay and that are always just being emptied and then reused. You do have some extra parts like glass (which you can just throw into containers that are usually in the parking lots of supermarkets and that are seperated by colour - white, brown, green - you usually just take your empty bottles/jars with you when you go shopping and throw them away). Then we have Pfand for bottles and cans, for example, when you buy a bottle of soda you pay more than the actual price of that bottle and when you are finished drinking you return it to the shop and get that money back. The bottles are then cleaned and reused by the companies who sell the bottles and cans (this is also the case for beer). Now for big garbage (branches from trimming the hedges of the garden, but also broken electronic devices like washing machines) and toxic waste (like batteries) you have to go to a place called 'Wertstoffhof', which is basically a place that collects the trash from one area and then brings it to places where it can be seperated further or reused or recylced. And that's where the fun part starts. In my area garbage used to be handled in a way so these containers that are being emptied were too small on purpose so that people would have to use the full potential of the 'Wertstoffhof'. So you would at your home seperate everything into the different waste groups (so basically sorts of plastic (PET,PE,PPT,etc.), glass, paper, other paper, carton, etc.), people ususally just collected the trash in the different groups, and then you would drive that to the 'Wertstoffhof' and there put it into the different larger containers for the seperate waste groups. They got rid of this system a while ago, but it's actually quite sad because looking back it wasn't that much effort and definately more environmentally friendly.
Here in the US we have companies that come around and pick up our recycling but you have to pay a monthly fee to have that service. My family recycles but we take our items to the dump station which have separate large bins for recycle items. We separate into a few categories; plastic, paper, cardboard, aluminum, glass and they have other bins for large items that can't be recycled. We take our recycles to the dump station once a month. Every now and then our city will hold a hazardous dump day for those who need to get rid of batteries, old paint, oils and broken electronics.
apart from being quite adorable, this was 1A information. Thank you. - your channel reminds me a bit of the Yotsubato series - and that is a fantastic way to share the info!
Hello Aiko! Thank you for making another interesting video. I'm from the Netherlands and we recycle a lot of things as well. But the rules for recycling are much easier: - paper and cardboard are collected seperately. We have to put it in a cardboard box or paper bag or tie string around it. And every other week it's put out in the street and collected. Simple! In my neighbourhood it is always collected on a Monday. We also recycle quite a bit of cardboard for art projects. Oh and we use it to make toys for our hamsters. - the county gives every household special big plastic bags and we use them to collect all plastics, milk packets, juice packets and all kinds of tins. It all goes in one big bag. We are not required to wash pet bottles or rinse out shampoo bottles or anything! Also we don't have to take the label off a pet bottle and we don't have to recycle the cap separately. Milk packets don't have to be taken apart, I just flatten them so the big plastic bag doesn't fill up too quickly. In my neighbourhood it is collected every other Wednesday. Also, supermarkets have machines where you can put large pet bottles, like from fizzy drinks, and you get the 25 cent deposit back for handing in the bottle. - glass jars are collected as wel, on the same day as the big plastic bag. We have to put it outside in a plastic bin that the county gives to every household. In this plastic bin you can also put small electrical appliances, as long as they fit in there. I don't use this bin because I can take my glass jars with me to the supermarket and there is an area outside where you can put the jars. They are big bins, one for clear glass, one for green glass and one for brown glass. I re-purpose some glass jars, I use a small one as a sugar pot for instance, and I keep spices in another one. - every city has a recycling yard where you can take big stuff, like old carpet, broken electrical appliances or broken furniture for instance. - 'green' waste, like potato peels, eggshells, onion skins and orange peels and garden waste is collected in a spcial bin and collected every other week as well. We are not allowed to put leftover raw or cooked meat in there. - all other waste is collected in a garbage bag that you can buy in every supermarket. If you live in a house with a garden the county gives you a wheelie bin to put your garbage bags in and again, it's collected every other week. Households pay a kind of tax on it. I live in an apartment building and I don't have a wheelie bin. Instead there is a collection point in the parking lot. I use a pass to open it and every time a put a garbage bag in it I get charged al small fee, like 1,60 euro's. Where I live, recycling shops/ charity shops/ second hand shops will often come to your home to pick up big items you don't need anymore. I like that a lot because I don't have a car. Well, this is how recycling works where I live!
Pirates.... well, I haven't spotted any! You mean the kind with one leg and a parrot on their shoulder, right? I do have two cheeky monkeys around the house, one is 10 years old and one is 13 years old. They are my sons hahahahahaha. If I do spot a pirate I'll take a picture and send it to you, okay? Byebye!
This video was really helpful, thank you! I really love your channel! Your videos are very informative and even though they are fun to watch, they are not just mere enternainment but really useful to learn about how to survive everyday life in Japan. I really appreaciate your hard work and your openness to share your private life with us. Thank you and keep up the good work! :)
I love this! In America, we have 3 bins: garbage, recycling(papers, boxes, bottles, etc), and yard waste. However, lots of stuff just go straight into garbage out of laziness 😖
Where I'm from, we have various ways to recycle. There are big recycling canister (bins) in different area's of the city that separate the recyclables, and there are private recycling companies (usually you have to pay them a small fee for taking your recyclables away), Then there are city and private (regular trash companies that takes all the garbage) that also pick up recyclables. With mine, we throw everything allowed ( non separated) into one big container then they recycle it at the recycling center :-)
Looks complicated but I like how organized and surprisingly clean it turns out to be. We don't follow the same procedures from where I'm from. I guess it just isn't much of a thing yet in my country.
In Scotland we have 5 different type of bins. Purple is for glass, green is for regular waste, brown for garden waste, blue is for plastic and newspaper. Finally grey/silver is for like fruit or eggs and it comes with biodegradable bags. But we don't have to clean anything only if you choose to which we do.
In Australia, we have recycling depots but only the items (glass/plastic/aluminium cans) that are sold in South Australia and Northern Territory can be exchanged for 10 cents each. Although I must say, it's weird when you buy bottles and cans from even other countries that have the "10c refund when sold in SA and NT" on them! Other than that, we have outdoor bins that are collected once a week: general waste bins weekly, recycling (paper/ plastics) bins and green-waste bins are on fortnightly intervals. My family always makes use of the 10c refund! Why not cash in an extra couple bucks a week? :)
In the UK more specifically the count of Leicestershire we have a black wheelie bin for non recyclable trash , a brown one for garden waste. A red box for plastic and metal objects , a yellow bag for cardboard and a blue bag for paper. We usually put our black and brown bin out one day and the rest on a different day and a special recycling Trash truck with different compartments on the sides picks all the garbage up.Batteries get recycled in little boxes that are usually found in stores. Different counties have different ways of recycling. near stores you can find recycling bins where you can take your trash which people who's area doesn't have special recycling regulations can take their trash.
+Abby P oh cool : D Makes me laugh that even in the same county there are different recycling methods ect and some councils who don't even recycle yet !!
Haha, she's so cool, polite and informative! I glad I stumbled across this, would be nice if other countries did something similar because after seeing this? I definitely think it's much more interesting through a child's perspective. 😊
In Poland every city or waste company can have their own policy but the most common categories are paper, glass, plastic usually mixed with metals and tetrapack and generic trash. Sometimes there are also bins for biodegradable stuff and you can order one for home renovation. Furniture and big things are collected by trucks once per week and you probably have to pay extra for it but people just leave it near trash bins (because the idea is that someone can take it if they need it). Special companies collected or buy old electronic/AGD/RTV and when you buy for example new fridge you can choose to leave the old one with the shop. Bins for batteries, light bulbs and medicine or its packaging are common in chain convince stores. You can sell aluminum and some metals for cash. Some schools collect paper and electronics for sale as students projects. The general law is that you need to declare if you will recycle or not and if you choose not to then you pay much more for trash collection.
1, the camera quality is great, you should put the model in the description for people to reference. 2, i loathe cartons for milk and coffee 3, i also love the milk and coffee.
The city I live in has single blue box recycling. Anything that can be recycled goes in one bin. Machines at the depot use various technologies such as infrared lights or something to auto sort the different plastic categories and paper categories. Unconfirmed reports indicate that it doesn't work near as well as the city claims it does though.
where I live in ohio, all of the recycling is dumped together, in a giant recycling bin that you leave on the curb and is collected every 2 weeks or so... Not as many people recycle, and I think a lot of people don't really know how to recycle well. (I'm pretty picky about it, and I keep a magnet on the fridge with what you can recycle as a guide). Recycling plants vary a little bit by what city you're in, like we could only start to recycle plastic cartons recently (but you dont have to flatten them). It is possible to recycle electronics, but you have to drive to a special place (usually a private company) and drop them off there, there's no public system for recycling large electronics where I live. When I had a few old printers I had to drive to a place i've never been before to drop them off. But the feeling that the bits of the printers are going to be re-used instead of rotting in a landfill makes me happy! :p
I'm SO glad my recycling company takes it all together :D It just has to be clean and put into a clear plastic bag (that they give you) and set outside your door on pickup day. I make sure to cut up things like the ring around a gallon milk jug or other packaging so that an animal can't get stuck inside and get hurt/malformed.
In Germany we've got a similar recycling system : Most of the tourists think we're crazy ;-) But we don't wash our cans and milk bottles because a lot of people say that this is a waste of water. ..In fact - it makes the waste more sticky and the recycling company has to wash it anyways.... By the way most of big public places like market places, malls and rail stations have got public trashcans with these four parts, too.
In Germany we recycle a lot too, but not at the level presented here. Communal Services here hand out severel types of (large sized) trash cans to households. Somewhere between 120L and 240L each. There are cans for "Green"/Biological garbage, for Paper / Cardboard and for "Household" / Misc. burnable trash that cannot be directly recycled easily. On top of that there is what we call the "Yellow Bag" - which are thin yellow pastic bags handed out by the community to collect all sorts of plastic garbage. All those types of garbage are collected about every 2 or 3 weeks at different times. Large scale items like furniture is collected with no cost at a few dates around the year but needs to be registered beforehand. That leaves garbage we actively have to return/recylce. First there are White Glass, Green Glass and Tin where there are large Steel Containers strategically placed around town for each of those types of garbage. The Containers are emptied regulary into huge garbage trucks. Then there are batteries which can be returned in super markets (which generally have a return box for those) or directly to the comunal services waste management center. Those waste management centers in general are the place to return any electronics garbage or bigger items when there are no retrievals scheduled. Other Dangerous/Toxic substances are also reclaimed there. For some large scale garbage or high quantities which are not common for a normal households the communal services charge some extra money, which varies based on the town you are from. As most everywhere else there is of course the concept of returnable bottles and tin-cans. Those items are marked accordingly and are returned mostly at the place they are bought, but can be returned at most medium to large sized super markets as well for quite a sizeable fee. One Way items (Bottles,Cans) are 25 Cent and Reusable Items are 15 Cent each. (1Cent around 1Yen)
We have like plastic and paper bins, which we then carry to a containers, which are every 50 meters. The containers are yellow for plastic, blue for paper and green for communal waste.
In Warsaw, Poland people have so called "kitchen waste"(soiled or oily paper, vegie peels, leafs, etc.) which goes to the local compost site, "dry waste", which is clean plastic and paper , small pieces of wood, art supplies, etc. which goes mainly to recycling and there are also separate glass containers. We used to have glass separated by colour - no colour and colour - but I haven't seen them in years, so I guess it was a bit too much hassle. Old batteries can be left in local shops and malls, old tablets and medicine is collected by local pharmacies. Each block of flats has their own collection space for all of these and 3-4 times a year we get a huge container at the back door for other "large-size trash" - old furniture, metal scraps, pipes or house appliances, even though the latter can be left in any appliance shop when you buy a new item in it, like an oven or a fridge. There is a law they have to recycle it for you if you ask. You can also call a special company, that collects "electrical waste" for you; they do it free of charge. They get money for selling components and metal. We also have people scavenging, mainly for soda cans and plastic caps, but these we usually donate locally for different purposes. And we do have weekly rounds, too. :) Only with a collection area we can take out the trash anytime we want. People living in houses have to remember out this, though. My parents who live in a small town have a rigid schedule on that. If you forget about it - you have to keep it in your house and wait for the collecting day again.
I love the system in Japan. Hoping to get information how to separate my trash to recycle from your vid. Great job you did there educating Aiko how to do it.
here in Australia we have 1 recycling bin that everything goes into but you can exchange certain recyclables for money this includes things like aluminum cans and PET bottles
In my neighborhood, in Brazil, we recycle about 50%. But, it's kind of different from this video: we put organic trash in a plastic bag (this is why it's 50% and not 100%); plastics, papers, cans, etc. in the same plastic bag and glasses in a special box, which is shared with everyone. Oil is separated too and can be used to make soap. After this, twice a week, some workers come and collect all these recycle garbage, separate again (this time with criteria) and sell everything. Unfortunately, not the entire city do this.
After watching this I felt so guilty for my poor recycling habits! You have inspired me to pay better attention to what I am throwing away. I live in California USA and although I am aware of recycling info they are not heavily enforced or anything.
I've never seen anyone that excited about garbage collection before XD I grew up in Ohio, and lived in Indiana for a while. In both places, you had to pay for recycling. It was an extra service through the waste management company or city. There wasn't much sorting done at home - just toss anything recyclable into the green or blue bins. Here in Seattle, they take it more seriously (though not as much as Japan!) In Seattle proper (as opposed to outlying areas), not only do they recycle, but they require (by way of a law that's quite frankly difficult to enforce) composting. Food scraps, greasy pizza boxes, etc, all get composted in commercial compost facilities. Then, once a year, everyone in Seattle gets a coupon for mulch/fertilizer made from the compost. It's also used on all the greenery and parks around. There's also neighborhood gardens, where you can pay to rent a garden plot, that usually have a compost bin (but they're not public use, so you can't just toss in your banana peel if you're out for a walk!). We also do regular recycling (for free! I was surprised when I first moved here). They ask that you clean stuff, but it seems like a lot of people don't. Again, no pre-sorting. Like you guys, we got a flier in the mail (sent anytime the post office knows someone's moved into the area) explaining the recycling system. Of course, there's regular trash too. I always find I have about 2x as much in recycling - which is great - all that volume being diverted from landfills! I LOVE the idea of having stickers for special items! That way they definitely get paid for, and the garbage company knows to take it. Here, you have to call ahead and schedule a pick up, on top of paying a fee. Due to that, sometimes people just leave large items (mattresses, furniture, large, broken electronics) by the curb in hopes someone will come by and take it. Or worse, drag it to a dead-end street and leave it there. It's not very common to see in most places, but it does happen, unfortunately.
wow!im amazed how disciplined japanese are about waste management and especially how kids are trained. i hope we can do this also in my country...im a new subscriber by the way and enjoying ur vids :)
In the part of England I live in we have 4 different bins, 1 for recyclables which is green , 1 for rubbish which is black, 1 for food waste which is small black and orange and one for garden waste which is brown
Australia - we have a recycling bin (that is yellow lid) that we throw ALL of our recycle in (glass jars, cans, containers, paper, cardboard). A 2nd bin (green lid) is for organics such as left over food and certain food packaging (EDIT- forgot to add garden waste and mulch / grass clippings). A 3rd bin is for general household rubbish (red bin). Rubbish is once per fortnight pick up, recycle is once per fortnight pick up, organics is every week. The bins are 120 litres (rubbish) and 240 litres each (recycle and organics). In summer with fortnightly rubbish pick up, the rubbish bin can get quite smelly and unhygienic, but the local council went from weekly to fortnightly but still charged the same price to make more money off us.
In Norway we often have 4/5 different trashcans in our kitchens. One for paper(and similar materials), one for plastic, one for food, one for random (safe) trash+one thing for bottles that we put in a machine in food stores and get money back(It's called "Pant" in Norway) so I think we are doing well here too :)
11:53 in Italy we have that bottles on the street too. It's because for some reason cats and dogs don't make pee in a place where there's a bottle full of water.
In my town in the US, each family was given by the town a big blue bin and a big green bin. The green is recyclables and the blue is non recyclable trash. It gets collected once a week. To get a second trash bin or overflow trash bags costs extra. This is a pretty new system to encourage people to recycle. People reuse things, too, in similar ways to you.
In my town same happened. Now it was nice and larger than the typical ones people can still buy at the store, the color However is in reverse. blue recyclable and green non-recycling. i don't think people really do it right as i notice the city sending flyers in mail few times since they done this. I think its great! I may not think much on recycling it is done at my house. Sadly it would never be able to get as complex and organized as Japan. Its not a thing America may not be open to unless there's an easier method or if enough people actually care which its slowly growing in my opinion.
My friend who lives in an apartment in Tokyo told me that one time he was too lazy too to sort his waste so se didn't obey the waste collection schedule, i.e. monday for plastic waste, wednesday for paper, etc. Instead he just put all his waste into one bag and put it into the communal bins before leaving the apartment.
What happened was, when he got back later in the evening, he found that his garbage was already sitting in front of his apartment door. Apparently the trash pickup guys went into his garbage bag and found his address from a food delivery receipt which he put inside that bag. Lol.
When the people don´t recycle properly the people who get the trash will have to do it. And so of the people don´t recycle they might get their trash back =)
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the paper collectors seemed very happy with their jobs! thats so good to see!
+Pyroharpyful That's probably because their truck collected only cardboards, which doesn't stink and looks like easy job for almost anyone and also because he's Justin Bieber of course! :D (I think he's just joking about the name.)
+JohnMike67 I think part of the process of recycling cardboard and paper is a wetting down phase anyway, so it's probably no big deal.
probably because they already did their job
try to get young people in the U S A to do this Job!!!!!
@@relentlessmadman you enviously dont live in the USA because they don't have 6 different recycling containers. It all goes into one and is picked up.
This is a RE-UPLOAD. Had to block out the recycling company's info. New video coming very soon.
Is it a requirement for all Japanese citizens to recycle?
I don't think anything bad will happen if you don't sort your waste appropriately (with exception of dangerous goods, like flammables).
+Life Where I'm From Really? I heard that if you don't sort out your waste properly they return your trash bags with a note to sort out the garbage.
+Treget Letterwood I know someone who doesn't separate their waste properly all the time and I've never heard of their garbage being returned. But recycling is usually left up to the wards (there are 23 in Tokyo), so what is acceptable and not can vary from place to place.
+Life Where I'm From this is a very interesting video
what a great dad!! i love it when parents spend time doing productive / real- life / educational activities rather than just giving them mobile apps and computers games !! your kids will be mad at u for a day but appreciate it in the long haul. what an inspiration !!
Smita T My parents are always to busy 🙁
I think knowing how to recycle is nearly required, it’s like a part of their culture
@@Oshimimers I dont think its required to learn but it's very necessary. They will not collect your trash or recycling it's wrong.
Japanese people for the most part take recycling and nutrition seriously so they learn very early. Their culture fascinates me and seem totally awesome.
+Rinsuki Do you see the 3 dots on the side of your comment. If so you can click the dots and select edit to correct you comment.
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Yeah some reason I cannot edit on my tablet only on my computer which is weird. Thanks. XD.
So superficial lmao
all the world needs to learn from the japaneese how to recycle!
totally agree
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Agreed, but the Japanese also use lots of packaging. Refusing & rethinking waste is much better than recycling it!
I live in Spain, I am 30 and I've been recycling forever. Here everyone does it, we have specific containers and clean points in the streets and neighborhoods were we can take our trash to, and at home (at least where I live) everyone has several bins for different stuff. Its much easier to do it as you go instead of going through your waste at the end of the day. If you have different bags or containers for different things it just becomes a second nature. Its super easy. Here in my city we have almost in every street at least five containers, one for organic trash (food), another for random trash (dirty napkins, femenine products, dirty bags or boxes, etc), another for plastic and cans, one for paper and cardboard, and one for glass bottles. Then you can take batteries to certain stores and malls where they have a place for it, or take it once a week to a specific place in the neighborhood where there is a person with a van that works for the city council and takes batteries, cables, small devices, oil and the things that you don't know where to put. Also for clothes and furniture, if its in a decent condition there is an association that you can call and they go to your home and take everything. Then they clean and fix what can be fixed, and sell it for a small price to people in need.
It’s true. It’s definitely not clear in the UK
I really am a big fan of the channel and you and your lovely family. What a great father and what a great way for your children to learn things and teach the world about their culture. Wish there were more channels like this . Love and light !
In the UK we have national recycling schemes, but it's a lot simpler. You have two (or sometimes three) large outdoor bins for your rubbish. The black bin is for general waste. The blue bin is for recyclable waste, like plastic, paper, cardboard, cans. You don't need to sort the recyclable stuff into categories, I believe there are people who do it at the big centres where it all goes, but you are supposed to clean all bottles and cans. If you have a garden, you may also have a third brown bin, which is for compostable waste, so garden trimmings, vegetable cuttings, tea bags, shredded paper etc. If you put the wrong thing in the blue bin, they won't take it. Instead you get a big red sticker on your bin saying what items cannot be placed in that bin, and you have to empty it out for next time (I get angry because SOMEONE in my area keeps dumping general rubbish in my blue recycling bin, which means they don't take it and I have to fish out all their nasty rubbish) The blue bin and black bins are taken every two weeks, so one week it will be the general waste collection and the following week will be the recycling. I don't know how often they take the brown bin because I don't have one.
Stuff like glass can't be put in the blue recycling bin, you have to take it to bottle banks. Often community centres and supermarket car parks have these, but I think for convenience most people just chuck glass in with the general waste for the black bin, rather than remembering to load up the car and take it to the supermarket. There are usually also banks for textiles there, too.
For batteries, in some shops I've seen battery recycling points for you to leave your dead batteries. For plastic bags, to try and limit the amount people use, shops must charge at least 5p per bag. Many supermarkets will also take back any old plastic bags to recycle.
And for big waste, like old furniture etc, you need to contact your local council and pay a fee to have it collected.
Some places don't do the "kerbside recycling" as it's called, though - my sister used to live in a big tower block, and they just had giant communal bins like dumpsters that everyone used. There weren't any separate bins, so if you wanted to recycle you had to sort it all yourself and take it to a recycling centre yourself (which I don't think many people do... cos hey, people are lazy lol).
+rexana Ihey rexana i am curious, do you get money by collecting them separately ?
+rexana different parts of uk also have different colours. I have grey bin for general waste, blue and recyclable stuff and green bin for garden rubbish like grass cuttings
+Vigilantiee I remember I was blown away when I found out different areas have a different colour scheme. It's so natural for me to associate the green bin with general waste and brown with recycling.
That sounds like my Mother's place. She has separate bins for all the recyclables that she takes to the recycling center, a big green bin for everything else and a big brown bin in the summer for yard waste. Also she saves all of the water/soda/juice bottles and cans and takes them to a redemption point where they sort and count them. Each one is worth 5 cents so if you take them 3-4 times a year it really adds up. I used to take them and would come away with $70 or more. The only annoying thing is the 5 cent each charge is already taken out as part of the cost when you but it so you've already spent the money once but you do get it back which is nice.
That's how it is in California. Green for gardening waste, black for general waste, and blue for recyclables.
Hello! I love your videos! I am from Norway, an island 100km south of Oslo, the capitol city. We are recycling a lot, like paper/cardboard, plastics, glass/metal, and biodegradeble/compostables. Outside our house (most people in this aerea lives in bungalows or 2-3 appartment houses with gardens around, we have garbage bins. We have 5 different! Orange lid is for glass and metal, brown lid is for food leftovers, white lid is for plastics and green lid is for the rest. Once a week a large truck is collecting from the bins, but only the food leftovers gets collected every week. The rest gets collected every 3 weeks, on a rotating schedule. Things like paint, batteries must be delivered special places. We fill up the car every now and then and drive to the local recycling station, where we deliver broken electric products, big heaps of plastic or paper, broken furniture, building materials and so on. All is free to deliver, no fee. BUT you have to pay a little fee for things that are not sorted, as if you fill up a big garbage bag with unsorted stuff, you have to pay for each bag.
I love the way our recycling works here!
Oh, I forgot the pet bottles, they get recycled at a store, where we get money for each bottle. Also aluminium cans. Around 20 yen per bottle/can, a bit more for large bottles (1,5 litres).
In Germany in the citys every house has a bin for paper/cartons, a bin for waste, a bin for organic waste, and a bin for recycleable waste..
Many bottles have "Pfand" which means that if you buy the bottle you have to pay about 8-25 cents for that bottle and when you bring it back to the store you get that money back (So most people don´t throw them away, but recycle them)
You can throw away batteries at almost any store that sells batteries or at special bins that are spread accros the city..
Glas and Cans are also put in special containers which are spread accros the city.. Normaly you can reach one in 5-10min walk of your house
If you don´t live in the city you also have to throw away your paper/cartons, and recycleable waste into containers, which arre often far away from your house (if you don´t have a car)
And many people outside the city have a "Komposthaufen" where they put al their organic waste on and then it turns into earth wich can be used in the garden
It seems at 10:09 that they have something like Pfand as well in that Japanese municipality, but the German thing that I’d really like to see expanding more (even in Germany itself) is the Mehrwegzeichen system. Reuse is so much better for saving resources than recycling, but DIY methods such as the ones presented at 11:49 are obviously limited in their ability to replace new products. Empty containers of all sorts should be ideally reused for the same purpose till they brake.
Very similar situation in Belgium.
But as for Singapore, trash gets picked up every day and burned. Recycling is done in name only. Reason? Because of bugs like cockroaches and ant colonies. (And because SG citizens are lazy and uneducated about trash recycling, but *shush* I didn't say anything.)
We do the same in Norway! We also have "pfand" but we call it "pant" :)
When she asks "How do you recycle where you're from"? And most of us starts feeling guilty!!
wish there is proper recycle system and education in my place. we got a long way to go to catch up with the japan.
+jefferi chang samee
I have been enjoying all of your videos, and learning much about Japanese family life, culture, and society.
These are nice and compact, very entertaining and educational.
While I also enjoy the NHK Documentry Series "Japanology Plus One", I find your channel much easier to watch and learn from.
But this episode on recycling, is by far your best one yet! Thank you!
I live in NE Ohio, in the US, and we have been recycling here since about 1970. It was voluntary and you had to transport your sorted paper/cardboard, glass, and metals to a local Recycling Center. Plastic recycling was not readily available until the late 1990's.
But now most communities offer (or even require) garbage sorting and recycling services.
(Here in Akron, we must separate all garbage into paper, glass, metal, plastic, and solids, but they must all be placed inside a large plastic garbage bin that is put on the tree lawn once a week for collection by the city using a truck with an arm that picks up and dumps the container automatically.)
Living by the 3 R's (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) is a great way to minimize one's footprint.
Great video!
Please keep 'em coming!
this reason on its own without anyother reasons can make me love Japan 💕💕
Han Byul you’d uproot your life for recycling? Wow
and here in my country people can't even simply put the garbage into the garbage can :(
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yuk kita mulai dari diri sendiri dulu, saya suka mungutin sampah orang dan usahakan juga untuk bilangin ke mereka
Hi Guys, I was in Japan last year and realised that Japan is a very different world and way ahead of the rest of the world in every imaginable aspect of life. I wish to be able to move to Japan ASAP.
I've been watching video's on youtube about Japan and MUST say that you deserve a big well done for making the best, most useful and informative video's without commercialising your good job, very honest and dignified. Keep it going.
wish you all the best
wish the US would be this orderly
+Jason Yang in the us people will just take the guns out and shoot the guy who impost that kind of recycling law XD
+meow23 Don't say that
+meow23 I'm guessing you've never met a lawful gun owner in the U.S. or any U.S. citizen for that matter.
Shrink it to the size of japan and it could happen.
Orderly? What video did you watch?
Hi Greg and Aiko. Thank you for showing this video. I'm moving to Tokyo in a few months (as my husband now works there) and this is tremendously helpful since waste management is not thoroughly and efficiently done where I'm from. I hope I'd bump into you when I move there!
That it incredible!! Imagine how better the earth would be if every person recycle like this Japanese girl!
It looks like a good recycling practice! In Brisbane where I live we usually have two types of waste bins for household purposes- general waste and recycle items. We don't need to sort them out, we just bin them.
That's why Japan is so clean
Right!
Japan has crazy recycling policy, everyone's expected to participate. Sad , it's not the same everywhere.
Nath N You're not just expected to participate. You're expected to do it properly too because often neighbours will come asking about it
Wolfcchi Yes.Good to have people checking about it.I don't use any plastic vessels.I usually go to farmer's market to get my fruits and vegetables and carry em in a cloth bag ,so no plastic. I don't drink anything on retail shelf ,only water and fresh juice. I try to buy stuff that doesn't come in a plastic bag or cover, it's very difficult.I own an electric car and a scooter.I plant trees where ever possible. I am a vegetarian I do consume diary products and eggs though .I produce very less plastic waste from my home and i live a very simplistic life no luxury. I do drink, smoke weed once in a while.I have solar PV's in my home.I am called crazy and people don't like me much, especially the ones who litter. :-p
Nath N I feel so ashamed because here in Australia we just shove whatever we think is recycle in the bin...but everything in Japan is so much more advanced. EVEN THEIR WASHING MACHINES like in the other videos where you can use bathwater through the spin cycle.
Wolfcchi Be the change you want to be.Rest will follow. Good Luck.Don't worry about the washing machine that's too much for even a freak like me to digest .Good Luck!
Nath N Ya? In the USA 🇺🇸 only some states require it
What an amazingly informative video! Love seeing what your life is like! Your family makes my heart smile :)
Where I live in the US my city has curbside recycling along with the usual trash pickup. It used to be small blue bins, but now everyone gets a large, bright blue rolling bin the same size as the dark green trash bins. Unfortunately, I live in an apartment that doesn't get curbside service but instead has a contracted company that provides a dumpster for our garbage. That means I also do not get curbside recycling and have to take my recyclables to a city provided facility. There used to be more around town, but there are fewer now and none are convenient for me, but I still do it. We can recycle glass, various plastics, various metal cans, cardboard, and paper. In addition to keeping those things separate, we usually have to separate different colors of glass.
Usually mine looks a lot like yours in this video by the time I finally decide to take it in! :D
Really enjoying your videos, by the way. Discovered your channel a couple of weeks ago and started watching. Thanks!
This is so cute to see you and Aiko do things together! It warms my heart! Visiting Japan is the top thing on my bucket list! It’s things like this that gets me interested in Japanese culture, and this channel is very informative! I just wanted to show my appreciation for your channel!
In America you usually have a green or blue bin next to the garbage bin outside. Inside is usually either plastics or papers but most of the time there's both lol. Glass bottles are usually done differently I think but most are just thrown away or used again for other purposes like holding grease after cooking, pencil holder, pot, etc.
lol that trash guy that called him self Justin bieber😂 I'm dead
atleast this guy was cuter x3
😂😂😂😂 same
I APPLAUD THE JAPANESE FOR DOING THIS FOR OUR PLANET
Mr. Saif Actually, I've heard that in France (I think) there are places where you can find about 6, 7, 8 different bins. Those are like green, blue, yellow, red, grey, violet and brown coloured... pretty amazing.
You mean sorting trash?
Plenty of places recycle, most just pay someone to sort it for them.
In Germany it’s the same
in czech rep. we can recycle but in the end there is still people re-recycling hired by trash company in their complex
...but japan with wraping bananas or apples in plastic one by one... there is no way they can outweight it by sorting their trash. It so much waste beeing made every single day
I go out sometimes and clean up trash around our house. I even pick up the little things, and it makes me feel awesome. One plastic object can end an animal's life. Think about that the next time you see a plastic bag.
Great video. It's so inspirational how they do it in Japan. Many people often think that recycling is really impossible but it's just so amazing how Japanese people devote their time in this.I Will subscribe to your channel, your videos are amazing and inspirational.
In Indonesia, sometimes it's different for every city to separate garbage in many categories, sometimes cities government provide trash can in 5 categories, another could be 3 or 2 categories in public area, like in the park, downtown, market, etc... but here's the reality : the garbage collector by government put it in one place , so the trash categories didn't usefull at all here lol... for neighborhood or household trash, we put the trash in one....
also, in some region there's a bank for the trash, so, you bring the trash to the bank, and you get the money in to your account ...
and some people here save the trash and separate them, for box, glass, plastic, and wait for tukang rombeng (private trash pickers) accross your home, so you can sell your waste to them and make a deal then get money...
sorry for my bad english lol
Hey! I don't know if needed captions for this since it's a reupload, but I went ahead and captioned them. I really love your channel and all the videos you put up, so if you're interested I'm more than happy to help out with captioning! Just my small contribution to the amazing contribution you've made to TH-cam.
In few states of malaysia, we just started this program. I really hope people will take time to do this sorting garbage thing seriously here. If we do together, we can be like japan too :)
Just found this channel...it is so cute.
My kids only watch a couple of episodes and they love it.
We'll binge watch this weekend.
We are from Texas, USA.
Recycling isn't required here...but there are special dumpsters around town where you can throw away paper and cardboard.
And of course there are recycling centers that you can go up to and leave stuff (and get money for).
Also, in my area, there isn't a trash pick up option.
Question:
What if you're out and about around town?
Do you have to break apart your bottles and stuff?
This video honestly makes me feel a lot better. I'm applying to jobs to teach English in Japan and the recycling program was like the one thing I'm always freaked out about because I know its so meticulous. So seeing someone that lives there say "I don't always know what i'm doing either" gives me comfort.
I love this video, I am big on recycling here in the United States. It is a lot simpler here with less rules. But here is how I recycle.
When I have aluminum cans I rinse them out, dry them and crush them. I put them in little plastic bags(we usually save these up for a year, then turn them in at once and get money for drinks at a party)
With plastic bottles same thing, Rinse, dry , and crush then put in a bag. When the bag is full, I tie it up and put it in the recycling bin on my porch. ( I also put plastic pieces or bags in there too)
I also rinse glass bottles/jars and put them in the recycling too.
With any cardboard boxes in the kitchen, I break apart and then leave in the kitchen in a certain place till I transfer it. Once a week I put everything in the recycling bin on my porch downstairs and in the big city issued recycling bin that a truck with a claw picks up. (yes all different categories goes in one big bin and to a sorting center)
Anything that is not recyclable goes into my green garbage bin that the city collects the same way. If something does not fit in the bins, then you can request a special pick up(same with any tree branches from yard work or after storms) Some people also have a compost pile for their leftover food and eggshells but that is not possible at my apartment.
We have to implement this system to the whole world to make this earth we know...Cleaner
It's literally the same thing every country that recycles does, except they don't pay someone to sort it for them.
Woah, loads of work! In the UK, I'm provided with green bags (recycling) and pink bags (rubbish) by my local council, everything goes in one of the two, and they are collected on alternating Mondays. Paper, cardboard, glass, metal and plastic go in the green bag, and you can also recycle bags of clothes, small electrical items and batteries separately. Most of my waste goes on recycling day.
I put mostly old food, sanitary products and waste from my pets (poo, hay and shavings) in the pink bag.
You can also put food in a food bin for composting, but I don't bother as I live alone so I don't have much. And you can recycle garden waste (for an extra fee), but I don't have a garden. You can have large items collected for a fee, or take them to the dump for free.
*Aiko's so adorable. I can't even handle it.*
"You want me to do like this? *tips over trash can so stuff falls out*"
"Well, you've already done it now, so yeah."
Well played, Aiko. Well played. 😏
This would encourage people not to buy things with an EXCESS amount of packaging! That is a big problem here in the U.S. Manufacturers love to add extra to make the products look bigger. A lot of items can be bought with no packaging or you could just bring your own reusable bag.
Yes thats true! Its totall unnecessary to pack everything into plastic. But in Japan they also do that.. like selling single apples and other fruits and wrapping them in styropor-like stuff, so that they don´t get any scratches...
And if you buy something at a store in the US you get thousands of tiny plastic bags where they put your stuff in.. Almost noone brings his own bag,...
In Germany at many stores you have to pay for the plastic bags and some don´t even offer plastic bags anymore but only paperbags or gunny bags..
THere are even stores that don´t pack their things at all but the people have to bring their own jars, bottles etc... (The store is called "unverpackt").. WIth that you can also buy the excact amount of stuff you need =)
Marion Mielke
That is a great system and is something that they should have in the U.S. but don't forget that the corporations make the laws here. In fact they write the "news".
rockshot100 Yes thats true, but still everybody can decide by his own, which company he supports...
And everyone can bring their own bags for shopping... If many people start bringing their own bags, or start asking for paperbags etc. the companies would adapt...
In Germany it was also a long way..
10 years ago every store would offer you plastic bags.. a few years ago they started to charge 10-30 cents for each plastic bag and started to sell gunny bags and other reuseable bag..
And since 2-3 years almost every clothing store uses paper bags instead of plastic bags...
Things like this of course take their time, but we only have this one earth to live on, so everyone should try their best to help =)
Marion Mielke
I don't know how many people are going to do this minimizing of waste voluntarily. There is no incentive to change these habits and more encouragement to keep up buying over-packaged products, at least here in the U.S.
rockshot100
Yes but if everybody says "it won´t matter, if i change something, because other people won´t do that, and one person is never going to change something", then nothing will ever change..
At least everyone should try =)
Our country (The Netherlands) can learn a lot from yours. Our stuff does not have to be washed out. We have a container for paper, one for greens (waste food if you choose to throw it away and garden greens). A big plastic bag for plastic, but since a short time milkcartons can go in there too. Also all the caps go into the same bag for plastic. And the last container is for like tissues, tin cans and everything else. This is what we collect at home. Which the garbage trucks pick up once a week or 2 weeks. Different days for different garbage. For things like batteries there are places/bins to 'dump' them around supermarkets.
Oh and outside there are places where you can throw all your glass away, sorted on color.
One thing a few of my friends thought was odd was that in my state we pay a $0.05 deposit for each bottled/canned drink we buy that can be returned, it gets added on to your total purchase price when you pay, and we then return them to the crushing machines similar to the one in the video, and then you get $0.05 for each one you return, my cousin brings hers in pre-crushed in her state and is paid by weight, so she was very fascinated by the bottle return machines. We have a recycling service that comes to the house, I haven't looked into whether or not it's free in my town, but I generally procrastinate, so I take mine in by driving it down to the recycling center myself, since it can end up being a lot of stuff. Some things are lacking and I feel like a few things just aren't recycled here that are able to be in other countries or states.
These videos are a great way to view Japanese daily life and also to get the kids involved in their chores/housework eh? Recycling here is done in two lidded tubs. One is for paper, bottle shaped plastics with a 1 or 2, batteries and small cardboard while the other one is for tin/aluminum cans, glass and overflow small cardboard. Larger cardboard has to be broken down and put under the tubs out on the curb/driveway. Anything not recyclable or if the plastic is a clamshell or doesn't have a mouth smaller than the bottom goes to the trash while kitchen waste can be composted if you want. It just has to be away from the house a bit because of bears, we have brown bears and grizzly bears where I live.
The bottles of water are to reflect light. In areas that lack adequate street lighting, people will place the bottles near poles or walls so that the headlights of a car will reflect off of the bottles and the bottle will light up surprisingly brightly.
In Seattle, WA, in addition to garbage bins we have recycling that you just chuck all clean recyclables into without need for sorting (we used to keep glass separate, but they changed that a few years back) and we also have yard waste/compost bins into which we are heavily encouraged to toss all compostable food waste. Sorting like this (trash, recyclable, and compostable) is even required by the city in restaurants. Rules aren't quite so strict outside the city though.
Wow it's amazing how well they recycle! Over here in Australia everything that's "recyclable" all just goes in one bin and isn't separated from paper, glass or plastic it all goes in one! I think we could learn something from this!
Wow! In Boston I lived with some great people who recycled but it was never at this level! We just threw it in the blue bin and hoped for the best. It would be such a great learning tool for everyone to learn a little more like this because it helps not only yourself but those who pick up our messes!
Hey, I don't know about else where in Canada but my neighborhood has a community compost site, things like food waste and yard waste can be picked up on specific days and put in a big compost bin with worms and other creepy crawlers. And any one can come and get compost for free. Also their is Christmas trees program where every one leaves their tree outside and the city collects them and uses them as wind barricades along the skating trail on the river, some are burnt in shelters by skating trails, out door hockey rinks and toboggan slides, the trees that are left over after all that are turned into wood chips and used in city parks. Otherwise we've 2 bins one for trash and another for recyclables, green and blue respectively. their is a pick up once a week, and the time of day that the pick up is around depends on the area, My area is Monday between 8am to 1pm.
You are such a great dad, I love these videos! Congratulations for the amazing kids!!
great effort put just keep everything in place...not to mention an impressive way to manage waste
I remember every time we travel to Asia, there are always disposable items (most notably packaging from purchasing anything from a drink from the street, to items from Department Stores, etc.) We actually are embarking on living a zero-waste lifestyle here in the U.S. E.g. we don't purchase soda/any drinks that comes in plastic bottle/containers, we use reusable plastic containers to buy items from grocery (such as produce, etc.). We buy second-hand items before purchasing new things and before "throwing" old items that are not recyclable/combustible, we donate those. It is a slow going process but we are going.
I know it is not realistic in Japan -- when I cook Japanese food, many of the seasonings, salad dressings, oils, soy sauces, even natto come in their own little packaging (just think of how many separate packaging a pack of natto has: the styrofoam, the small packet of the sauce, and yet another small packet for mustard, AND yet another plastic packaging that keeps the packs of styrofoam together).
In any case, I am glad to have watched this video, I think Japan has one of the more advance waste management system in Asia. Thank you!
In Canada, we have recycling depots where we take bottles, cans and glass and get money in return. They also take old electronic devices and batteries, even different types of lightbulbs and their fixtures, but we don't get money for those.
Wow! I love how important recycling is in Japan. It's amazing how much more work needs to go into it, than here in America. We have curbside pick up 1 day a week for everything you put out, and also centers where you take it yourself. When I go take care of my recycling, a lot of things are just lumped together, barely broken down, and full of things that aren't actually recyclable. Plastic bottles can be, but not the lids, it's frustrating. They are grouped into categories - glass by color, tin, aluminum, plastics, cardboard and newspaper, and some electronics. If recyclable materials are soiled by oils or foods, they can not be recycled...like pizza boxes..or unclean containers.
I wish we could make recycling more predominant here, it's so important for helping our planet! In my state of Pennsylvania, we do not receive any money for recycling, which I think would give so many more people incentive to do so!
I love that the styrofoam containers are used as planters!
Thanks for sharing!
I live in New Jersey and every township has different rules for recycling. I live in Ewing Township and they issued us a yellow and a green bin. Yellow is for plastic and glass and green is for cardboard and paper. If you want to go above and beyond, then you have to find a recycling center. It's much simpler but that doesn't mean that it's better for the environment.
We used to have a quite complicated recycling system around where I live. Now usually, here in Germany trash is seperated into plastic, paper, anything from plants (banana peels, left over coffee powder from brewing coffee, etc.) and any other forms of trash. These are picked up at the house and collected in large containers for which the cities pay and that are always just being emptied and then reused. You do have some extra parts like glass (which you can just throw into containers that are usually in the parking lots of supermarkets and that are seperated by colour - white, brown, green - you usually just take your empty bottles/jars with you when you go shopping and throw them away). Then we have Pfand for bottles and cans, for example, when you buy a bottle of soda you pay more than the actual price of that bottle and when you are finished drinking you return it to the shop and get that money back. The bottles are then cleaned and reused by the companies who sell the bottles and cans (this is also the case for beer).
Now for big garbage (branches from trimming the hedges of the garden, but also broken electronic devices like washing machines) and toxic waste (like batteries) you have to go to a place called 'Wertstoffhof', which is basically a place that collects the trash from one area and then brings it to places where it can be seperated further or reused or recylced. And that's where the fun part starts. In my area garbage used to be handled in a way so these containers that are being emptied were too small on purpose so that people would have to use the full potential of the 'Wertstoffhof'. So you would at your home seperate everything into the different waste groups (so basically sorts of plastic (PET,PE,PPT,etc.), glass, paper, other paper, carton, etc.), people ususally just collected the trash in the different groups, and then you would drive that to the 'Wertstoffhof' and there put it into the different larger containers for the seperate waste groups.
They got rid of this system a while ago, but it's actually quite sad because looking back it wasn't that much effort and definately more environmentally friendly.
Here in the US we have companies that come around and pick up our recycling but you have to pay a monthly fee to have that service. My family recycles but we take our items to the dump station which have separate large bins for recycle items. We separate into a few categories; plastic, paper, cardboard, aluminum, glass and they have other bins for large items that can't be recycled. We take our recycles to the dump station once a month. Every now and then our city will hold a hazardous dump day for those who need to get rid of batteries, old paint, oils and broken electronics.
apart from being quite adorable, this was 1A information. Thank you.
- your channel reminds me a bit of the Yotsubato series - and that is a fantastic way to share the info!
This video is awesome! Thank you for making clips like this.
I just moved to japan as an exchange student and this video really helped me to better understand how should i handle my trash, thank u!!
Hello Aiko! Thank you for making another interesting video. I'm from the Netherlands and we recycle a lot of things as well. But the rules for recycling are much easier:
- paper and cardboard are collected seperately. We have to put it in a cardboard box or paper bag or tie string around it. And every other week it's put out in the street and collected. Simple! In my neighbourhood it is always collected on a Monday. We also recycle quite a bit of cardboard for art projects. Oh and we use it to make toys for our hamsters.
- the county gives every household special big plastic bags and we use them to collect all plastics, milk packets, juice packets and all kinds of tins. It all goes in one big bag. We are not required to wash pet bottles or rinse out shampoo bottles or anything! Also we don't have to take the label off a pet bottle and we don't have to recycle the cap separately. Milk packets don't have to be taken apart, I just flatten them so the big plastic bag doesn't fill up too quickly. In my neighbourhood it is collected every other Wednesday.
Also, supermarkets have machines where you can put large pet bottles, like from fizzy drinks, and you get the 25 cent deposit back for handing in the bottle.
- glass jars are collected as wel, on the same day as the big plastic bag. We have to put it outside in a plastic bin that the county gives to every household. In this plastic bin you can also put small electrical appliances, as long as they fit in there. I don't use this bin because I can take my glass jars with me to the supermarket and there is an area outside where you can put the jars. They are big bins, one for clear glass, one for green glass and one for brown glass. I re-purpose some glass jars, I use a small one as a sugar pot for instance, and I keep spices in another one.
- every city has a recycling yard where you can take big stuff, like old carpet, broken electrical appliances or broken furniture for instance.
- 'green' waste, like potato peels, eggshells, onion skins and orange peels and garden waste is collected in a spcial bin and collected every other week as well. We are not allowed to put leftover raw or cooked meat in there.
- all other waste is collected in a garbage bag that you can buy in every supermarket. If you live in a house with a garden the county gives you a wheelie bin to put your garbage bags in and again, it's collected every other week. Households pay a kind of tax on it. I live in an apartment building and I don't have a wheelie bin. Instead there is a collection point in the parking lot. I use a pass to open it and every time a put a garbage bag in it I get charged al small fee, like 1,60 euro's.
Where I live, recycling shops/ charity shops/ second hand shops will often come to your home to pick up big items you don't need anymore. I like that a lot because I don't have a car.
Well, this is how recycling works where I live!
Are ther pirates there?!?( just kidding)
Pirates.... well, I haven't spotted any! You mean the kind with one leg and a parrot on their shoulder, right? I do have two cheeky monkeys around the house, one is 10 years old and one is 13 years old. They are my sons hahahahahaha. If I do spot a pirate I'll take a picture and send it to you, okay? Byebye!
This video was really helpful, thank you!
I really love your channel! Your videos are very informative and even though they are fun to watch, they are not just mere enternainment but really useful to learn about how to survive everyday life in Japan. I really appreaciate your hard work and your openness to share your private life with us. Thank you and keep up the good work! :)
japan the place that I really want to go to
In my elementary School in Japan we had to cut open the milk cartons everyday after lunch
Good job Aiko. And what a great dad, Gregg. Congratulations!!
I love this! In America, we have 3 bins: garbage, recycling(papers, boxes, bottles, etc), and yard waste. However, lots of stuff just go straight into garbage out of laziness 😖
Where I'm from, we have various ways to recycle. There are big recycling canister (bins) in different area's of the city that separate the recyclables, and there are private recycling companies (usually you have to pay them a small fee for taking your recyclables away), Then there are city and private (regular trash companies that takes all the garbage) that also pick up recyclables. With mine, we throw everything allowed ( non separated) into one big container then they recycle it at the recycling center :-)
I'm moving to Japan soon and I needed this. Thank you so much, this was incredibly helpful
Looks complicated but I like how organized and surprisingly clean it turns out to be. We don't follow the same procedures from where I'm from. I guess it just isn't much of a thing yet in my country.
this is something every industrialised country need to learn.
In Scotland we have 5 different type of bins. Purple is for glass, green is for regular waste, brown for garden waste, blue is for plastic and newspaper. Finally grey/silver is for like fruit or eggs and it comes with biodegradable bags. But we don't have to clean anything only if you choose to which we do.
In Australia, we have recycling depots but only the items (glass/plastic/aluminium cans) that are sold in South Australia and Northern Territory can be exchanged for 10 cents each. Although I must say, it's weird when you buy bottles and cans from even other countries that have the "10c refund when sold in SA and NT" on them!
Other than that, we have outdoor bins that are collected once a week: general waste bins weekly, recycling (paper/ plastics) bins and green-waste bins are on fortnightly intervals. My family always makes use of the 10c refund! Why not cash in an extra couple bucks a week? :)
In the UK more specifically the count of Leicestershire we have a black wheelie bin for non recyclable trash , a brown one for garden waste. A red box for plastic and metal objects , a yellow bag for cardboard and a blue bag for paper. We usually put our black and brown bin out one day and the rest on a different day and a special recycling Trash truck with different compartments on the sides picks all the garbage up.Batteries get recycled in little boxes that are usually found in stores. Different counties have different ways of recycling. near stores you can find recycling bins where you can take your trash which people who's area doesn't have special recycling regulations can take their trash.
+Abby P oh cool : D Makes me laugh that even in the same county there are different recycling methods ect and some councils who don't even recycle yet !!
Haha, she's so cool, polite and informative! I glad I stumbled across this, would be nice if other countries did something similar because after seeing this? I definitely think it's much more interesting through a child's perspective. 😊
In Poland every city or waste company can have their own policy but the most common categories are paper, glass, plastic usually mixed with metals and tetrapack and generic trash. Sometimes there are also bins for biodegradable stuff and you can order one for home renovation. Furniture and big things are collected by trucks once per week and you probably have to pay extra for it but people just leave it near trash bins (because the idea is that someone can take it if they need it). Special companies collected or buy old electronic/AGD/RTV and when you buy for example new fridge you can choose to leave the old one with the shop. Bins for batteries, light bulbs and medicine or its packaging are common in chain convince stores. You can sell aluminum and some metals for cash. Some schools collect paper and electronics for sale as students projects. The general law is that you need to declare if you will recycle or not and if you choose not to then you pay much more for trash collection.
I love recycling, it was fun to watch your system.
1, the camera quality is great, you should put the model in the description for people to reference.
2, i loathe cartons for milk and coffee
3, i also love the milk and coffee.
The city I live in has single blue box recycling. Anything that can be recycled goes in one bin. Machines at the depot use various technologies such as infrared lights or something to auto sort the different plastic categories and paper categories. Unconfirmed reports indicate that it doesn't work near as well as the city claims it does though.
JAPAN! This why i love Japan! Citizens are disciplined. Loved your videos. I subscribed. Keep it up! - from Philippines 👍👌🙏
where I live in ohio, all of the recycling is dumped together, in a giant recycling bin that you leave on the curb and is collected every 2 weeks or so... Not as many people recycle, and I think a lot of people don't really know how to recycle well. (I'm pretty picky about it, and I keep a magnet on the fridge with what you can recycle as a guide). Recycling plants vary a little bit by what city you're in, like we could only start to recycle plastic cartons recently (but you dont have to flatten them).
It is possible to recycle electronics, but you have to drive to a special place (usually a private company) and drop them off there, there's no public system for recycling large electronics where I live. When I had a few old printers I had to drive to a place i've never been before to drop them off. But the feeling that the bits of the printers are going to be re-used instead of rotting in a landfill makes me happy! :p
I'm SO glad my recycling company takes it all together :D It just has to be clean and put into a clear plastic bag (that they give you) and set outside your door on pickup day. I make sure to cut up things like the ring around a gallon milk jug or other packaging so that an animal can't get stuck inside and get hurt/malformed.
In Germany we've got a similar recycling system : Most of the tourists think we're crazy ;-)
But we don't wash our cans and milk bottles because a lot of people say that this is a waste of water.
..In fact - it makes the waste more sticky and the recycling company has to wash it anyways....
By the way most of big public places like market places, malls and rail stations have got public trashcans with these four parts, too.
In Germany we recycle a lot too, but not at the level presented here. Communal Services here hand out severel types of (large sized) trash cans to households. Somewhere between 120L and 240L each. There are cans for "Green"/Biological garbage, for Paper / Cardboard and for "Household" / Misc. burnable trash that cannot be directly recycled easily. On top of that there is what we call the "Yellow Bag" - which are thin yellow pastic bags handed out by the community to collect all sorts of plastic garbage. All those types of garbage are collected about every 2 or 3 weeks at different times. Large scale items like furniture is collected with no cost at a few dates around the year but needs to be registered beforehand.
That leaves garbage we actively have to return/recylce. First there are White Glass, Green Glass and Tin where there are large Steel Containers strategically placed around town for each of those types of garbage. The Containers are emptied regulary into huge garbage trucks.
Then there are batteries which can be returned in super markets (which generally have a return box for those) or directly to the comunal services waste management center.
Those waste management centers in general are the place to return any electronics garbage or bigger items when there are no retrievals scheduled. Other Dangerous/Toxic substances are also reclaimed there.
For some large scale garbage or high quantities which are not common for a normal households the communal services charge some extra money, which varies based on the town you are from.
As most everywhere else there is of course the concept of returnable bottles and tin-cans. Those items are marked accordingly and are returned mostly at the place they are bought, but can be returned at most medium to large sized super markets as well for quite a sizeable fee. One Way items (Bottles,Cans) are 25 Cent and Reusable Items are 15 Cent each. (1Cent around 1Yen)
We have like plastic and paper bins, which we then carry to a containers, which are every 50 meters. The containers are yellow for plastic, blue for paper and green for communal waste.
Wow! I wish we had this type of system here! And with packaging that is designed to come apart for recycling
In Warsaw, Poland people have so called "kitchen waste"(soiled or oily paper, vegie peels, leafs, etc.) which goes to the local compost site, "dry waste", which is clean plastic and paper , small pieces of wood, art supplies, etc. which goes mainly to recycling and there are also separate glass containers. We used to have glass separated by colour - no colour and colour - but I haven't seen them in years, so I guess it was a bit too much hassle. Old batteries can be left in local shops and malls, old tablets and medicine is collected by local pharmacies. Each block of flats has their own collection space for all of these and 3-4 times a year we get a huge container at the back door for other "large-size trash" - old furniture, metal scraps, pipes or house appliances, even though the latter can be left in any appliance shop when you buy a new item in it, like an oven or a fridge. There is a law they have to recycle it for you if you ask. You can also call a special company, that collects "electrical waste" for you; they do it free of charge. They get money for selling components and metal. We also have people scavenging, mainly for soda cans and plastic caps, but these we usually donate locally for different purposes. And we do have weekly rounds, too. :) Only with a collection area we can take out the trash anytime we want. People living in houses have to remember out this, though. My parents who live in a small town have a rigid schedule on that. If you forget about it - you have to keep it in your house and wait for the collecting day again.
I love the system in Japan. Hoping to get information how to separate my trash to recycle from your vid. Great job you did there educating Aiko how to do it.
God how lazy do I feel? all we have to do is plastic, paper, glass, tin, and even that is like a huge chore! LOL
here in Australia we have 1 recycling bin that everything goes into but you can exchange certain recyclables for money this includes things like aluminum cans and PET bottles
In my neighborhood, in Brazil, we recycle about 50%. But, it's kind of different from this video: we put organic trash in a plastic bag (this is why it's 50% and not 100%); plastics, papers, cans, etc. in the same plastic bag and glasses in a special box, which is shared with everyone. Oil is separated too and can be used to make soap. After this, twice a week, some workers come and collect all these recycle garbage, separate again (this time with criteria) and sell everything. Unfortunately, not the entire city do this.
hey I loved your channel! I'm a Chilean living in Austria and I just love knowing about different cultures. This is so cool and interesting!
After watching this I felt so guilty for my poor recycling habits! You have inspired me to pay better attention to what I am throwing away. I live in California USA and although I am aware of recycling info they are not heavily enforced or anything.
Wow! this was very helpful! I have a giant cupboard full of trash and I was wondering what are the rules to recycle it. Thanks!
I've never seen anyone that excited about garbage collection before XD
I grew up in Ohio, and lived in Indiana for a while. In both places, you had to pay for recycling. It was an extra service through the waste management company or city. There wasn't much sorting done at home - just toss anything recyclable into the green or blue bins.
Here in Seattle, they take it more seriously (though not as much as Japan!)
In Seattle proper (as opposed to outlying areas), not only do they recycle, but they require (by way of a law that's quite frankly difficult to enforce) composting. Food scraps, greasy pizza boxes, etc, all get composted in commercial compost facilities. Then, once a year, everyone in Seattle gets a coupon for mulch/fertilizer made from the compost. It's also used on all the greenery and parks around. There's also neighborhood gardens, where you can pay to rent a garden plot, that usually have a compost bin (but they're not public use, so you can't just toss in your banana peel if you're out for a walk!).
We also do regular recycling (for free! I was surprised when I first moved here). They ask that you clean stuff, but it seems like a lot of people don't. Again, no pre-sorting.
Like you guys, we got a flier in the mail (sent anytime the post office knows someone's moved into the area) explaining the recycling system.
Of course, there's regular trash too. I always find I have about 2x as much in recycling - which is great - all that volume being diverted from landfills!
I LOVE the idea of having stickers for special items! That way they definitely get paid for, and the garbage company knows to take it. Here, you have to call ahead and schedule a pick up, on top of paying a fee. Due to that, sometimes people just leave large items (mattresses, furniture, large, broken electronics) by the curb in hopes someone will come by and take it. Or worse, drag it to a dead-end street and leave it there. It's not very common to see in most places, but it does happen, unfortunately.
wow!im amazed how disciplined japanese are about waste management and especially how kids are trained. i hope we can do this also in my country...im a new subscriber by the way and enjoying ur vids :)
In the part of England I live in we have 4 different bins, 1 for recyclables which is green , 1 for rubbish which is black, 1 for food waste which is small black and orange and one for garden waste which is brown
Australia - we have a recycling bin (that is yellow lid) that we throw ALL of our recycle in (glass jars, cans, containers, paper, cardboard). A 2nd bin (green lid) is for organics such as left over food and certain food packaging (EDIT- forgot to add garden waste and mulch / grass clippings). A 3rd bin is for general household rubbish (red bin). Rubbish is once per fortnight pick up, recycle is once per fortnight pick up, organics is every week. The bins are 120 litres (rubbish) and 240 litres each (recycle and organics). In summer with fortnightly rubbish pick up, the rubbish bin can get quite smelly and unhygienic, but the local council went from weekly to fortnightly but still charged the same price to make more money off us.
I'm going to have so much fun with this!! :D Thanks for the tutorial! 💞
Justin looks to be having a blast up there, I'm envious.
In Norway we often have 4/5 different trashcans in our kitchens. One for paper(and similar materials), one for plastic, one for food, one for random (safe) trash+one thing for bottles that we put in a machine in food stores and get money back(It's called "Pant" in Norway) so I think we are doing well here too :)
11:53 in Italy we have that bottles on the street too. It's because for some reason cats and dogs don't make pee in a place where there's a bottle full of water.
In my town in the US, each family was given by the town a big blue bin and a big green bin. The green is recyclables and the blue is non recyclable trash. It gets collected once a week. To get a second trash bin or overflow trash bags costs extra. This is a pretty new system to encourage people to recycle. People reuse things, too, in similar ways to you.
In my town same happened. Now it was nice and larger than the typical ones people can still buy at the store, the color However is in reverse. blue recyclable and green non-recycling. i don't think people really do it right as i notice the city sending flyers in mail few times since they done this. I think its great! I may not think much on recycling it is done at my house. Sadly it would never be able to get as complex and organized as Japan. Its not a thing America may not be open to unless there's an easier method or if enough people actually care which its slowly growing in my opinion.