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For Americans struggling with sorting trash into a few categories, Japan may provide a foretaste of daily life to come in a national campaign to reduce waste and increase recycling, neighborhoods, office buildings, cities and megacities increase the number of waste categories - sometimes to dizzying heights.
Indeed, Yokohama 3 5 million people, appears slack compared to Kamikatsu, a town of 2,200 in the Shikoku Mountains, the smallest of the four main islands is not content with the 34 categories of waste Japan has it defined four years ago as part of a major effort to reduce waste, Kamikatsu gradually increased the number to 44.
In Japan, the long-term push to sort and recycle aims to reduce the amount of waste that ends up in incinerators in the shortage of land in Japan, up to 80 percent of waste is incinerated, while a similar percentage ends up in landfills to States States.
The process respects the environment sorting and recycling can be more expensive than dumping, experts say, but a comparable cost to incineration.
Sorting of waste are not necessarily more expensive than incineration, said Hideki Kidohshi, a researcher at Center for Waste emergence strategy of Japan Research Institute Japan, sorting and recycling will make further progress.
For Yokohama, the goal is to reduce waste incinerated 30 percent over the next five years, but the goal is even more ambitious Kamikatsu eliminate waste by 2020.
Over the past four years, Kamikatsu has halved the amount of waste incineration and related high waste recycled to 80 percent, city officials said every household now has a garbage disposal unit subsidized that recycles raw garbage into compost.
At the single Garbage Station where residents must take their trash, 44 bins collect everything from tofu containers to egg cartons, plastic bottle caps to disposable chopsticks, fluorescent tubes to futons.
On a recent morning, Masaharu Tokimoto, 76, drove his truck to the station and expertly put brown bottles in their proper bin, clear bottles in their He looked at the labels on the boxes to determine whether they were aluminum or steel Flummoxed on an item, he remained paralyzed for one minute before muttering, it must be inside.
Some 15 minutes later, Mr. Tokimoto made the city had gotten much cleaner the new waste policy, he said, but added that it is a pain, but I can not throw garbage in That the mountains would be a violation.
In towns and villages where everyone knows each other, not sorting may be unthinkable in the cities, however, not everyone respects, and perhaps more than any other act, sorting waste is considered evidence one is an adult, responsible citizens young people, especially singles, are notorious for not sorting and owners are reluctant to rent to non-Japanese often explain that foreigners can not - or will not - sort their waste.
In Yokohama, after a few neighborhoods started sorting last year, some residents stopped throwing their trash bins of the house in parks and convenience stores began filling mysteriously with unsorted waste.
So we stopped putting garbage in parks, said Masaki Fujihira, which oversees waste sorting promoting family waste division of the city of Yokohama.
Enter the garbage guardians, the volunteer army piercing eyes across Japan who comb offending bags for, say, a telltale gas bill, and then remove the owner the right path.
One of the most persistent here is Mitsuharu Taniyama, 60, the owner of a small insurance company that leads around its service every morning and evening, in search of poorly sorted waste He leaves reviews on sites collection of Mr. so-and-so, your practice waste segregation is wrong please correct.
I checked bags inside and in particular those taken at their doors shabby owners before Mr. Taniyama said.
He stopped at a place where disorder five bags were scattered, and crows chose orange peel one.
This is a typical example of the wrong bin, M. Taniyama said disgustedly The problem there is that there is no community leader If there is no strong leader, there chaos.
He touched base with his lieutenants in the field on the corner of a street with large houses, where the new policy came into effect last October, Yumiko Miyano, 56, was waiting with a few neighbors.
Ms. Miyano said she now compliance of 90 percent, adding that, to his surprise, those who resist tend to be intellectuals, as a university professor or an official at Japan Airlines the block.
But the husband is the problem - the woman sorts its waste properly, a neighbor said the family of airlines.
Become familiar with the new system was not without embarrassing moments.
Shizuka Gu, 53, said earlier, a community leader sent a letter admonishes him not to write his identification number on the bag with a thick felt pen She was reprimanded for using a pen that was too thin.
It was a great shock to be told that I had done something wrong, Ms. Gu said that I could not bring myself to take out the trash here and asked my husband to take us to his office the did for a month.
At step 100 family apartment complex too far Sumishi Kawai kept my eyes fixed on the waste site before Missorting collection was easy to spot, given the need to use clear garbage bags with identification numbers compliance was perfect - almost.
A young couple never managed to properly sort their waste Sorry, we'll be careful they would say every time M. Kawai knocked on their door holding proven transgressions.
Finally, even M. Kawai - a little man 77 years old with wispy white hair, an easy smile and an attitude that can only be described as grandfatherly - take no more.
They rented the apartment, so I asked the owner, well, would it be possible to move them, M. Kawai said, recalling, with undisguised satisfaction, the couple was sent there two months.
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