Japan’s ‘zero waste town’ is so good at recycling that it is attracting foreign visitors
[2024-03-01 08:13:45]
A small town in west Japan was very well recycled, so it became widely known on YouTube and fascinated foreign tourists.
In the documentary video titled "How do you do not make garbage or English narration or subtitles in the town?", 2,000 residents of Tokushima prefecture Nakamura will remove the bottle according to the 34 designated categories based on the designated category of 34 I will explain. Please cover and thoroughly separate it and recycle it. Since the video was produced at the end of 2015, these categories have increased to 45.
There is also an organic waste composting system throughout the city. Unnecessary work items can be changed freely, and will be handed out at a special store
Since the release of Seeker Stories on YouTube, this 5 minute video was played about 540 thousand times. The town located on this idyllic hillside accepts delegations from municipalities and environmental groups from at least ten countries.
A 22 - year - old student at the Royal Law and Economics University of Cambodia, who visited the town in December, said, "As the economic development, Cambodia 's waste problem is getting worse and we must obey this leadership."
The town announced in 2003 that it will completely stop waste generation by 2020. That is the goal of "zero waste". According to the town, nearly 80% of non-organic waste is currently recycled or reused, far exceeding the national average of about 20%.
There are lots of baskets to collect garbage such as steel cans, aluminum cans, brown glass bottles, PET bottle caps, paper bags, etc. at the garbage station in Hibiya, the only garbage dumpster in Kamikatsu.
Some shops can drop products that are not used by residents or take them home for free at the station.
"I am pleased if the upper model is spread around the world," said 28-year-old Akira Sakano of Zero Waste Academy, a nonprofit organization that manages waste collection sites.
"We want to work hard to achieve the goal of the city while expanding this movement to other areas," she said.
Welcome to God of Japan - a town of waste. In this part of the world, people pay great attention to the concept of recycling. It is classified as 34 kinds of waste such as aluminum can, steel can, spray can, plastic bottle, cap, paper, carton, cardboard, newspaper, leaflet, magazine, milk carton. Firstly, Kamikatsu publicly burned their trash. However, after seeing the adverse impact of the process on the environment and humans, the people in the town have decided to make a plan without waste. This program began in 2003, since then 80% of the town's waste has been recycled, reused, or mixed.
The people of Japan's top victory are raising the lean approach to a new level. As a result, they classify waste into up to 34 different categories, becoming the first "zero waste" community in the country by 2020. The recent ecological achievement of a small town is the construction of the Kamikatz public house which is completely constructed with refurbished windows and recycled cedar boards.
Is Japan's recycling system the most complicated in the world? Sometimes it feels like it. Household garbage, of course, must be classified as flammable and nonflammable, but then there will be a splendid collection of recycling categories to break your nonflammable garbage. As Japan is a relatively small country and there is not a lot of land used to fill waste, most of the waste has been burned in the past. However, as ecological awareness increased in the 1990s, a new law was introduced to minimize the amount of combustion waste and promote recycling.