Living in Japan with physical disabilities
chemicals and hazardous wastes are the main environmental issues in Japan high population density.
He was just an old chair an office chair, to be precise, I had saved from a few years of neglect of garbage collection before, and it had served me well but now I moved into a new home and are no longer needed, so I had to have it was too damaged to sell or even give.
One of 1890 household waste incinerators in Japan is near the headquarters Columbans Japan in Tokyo.
I could have put it out to collect with unburnable waste, but the company that collected the garbage from the church would charge likely to have the director of the nursery school of the Church, who lives outside the city, offered to take home and burn it for me, but I was afraid that would produce dangerous gases, possibly dioxin I finally decided to get the company to collect, even if they pay a fee.
My two years Komagane in Nagano were two years in Paradise Located between the Japanese Alps center and south, the city offers beautiful views and trails that are ideal for running and hiking The only thing I found difficult to get used to was collecting garbage rubbish system had to be divided into more than 20 categories Some categories were collected each week; others were collected every few months the system was complicated enough to require a 28-page booklet to explain it.
Although I found it difficult to work the different categories of plastic straws in juice boxes could be burned, but the plastic cover around the straw could not, I'm glad Komagane addressed garbage responsible.
The problem of waste in Japan is one of the most serious environmental problems of the world 130 million people in Japan produce about 52 million tonnes of waste per year, equivalent to a very high per capita rate of almost 2 5 pounds of waste per person per day the nation landfill sites fill up quickly, and some gets shipped overseas, some of them illegally much illegally dumped in the mountains of Japan, many of which are remote, but some of which are close to cities.
Due to the lack of suitable disposal sites, Japan consumes as much waste as possible Japan 1,890 household waste incinerators, the largest number, and also the highest concentration in the world, compared with the States States with more than twice the population, has about 200.
Dioxin, one of the most deadly poisons known, is produced when plastics are burned It has been linked to cancer and is suspected of disrupting hormones that regulate biological processes such as sexual development Many of Japan incinerators pay dioxin in the air at levels well above what most of the world considers safety According to a 1999 UN report, incinerators Japan unsubscribe nearly 40 percent of the world's dioxin emissions.
In early 1980, a Japanese scientist issued a public warning about dioxin that was ignored by Japan's Ministry of the evidence of the health and wellness of the dangers of the accumulated dioxin, but Japan didn t move at defining the rules of emissions until 1997. environmentalists say the rules are loose compared to international standards and aren t seriously applied.
Takagi Yoshiyuki, the non-governmental organization Terre Village, under the rules of the permitted quantity of dioxin in the ground in Japan is 100 times the amount in Canada and Sweden He said Japan does not even regulate the amount of dioxin in A food paper reported that amounts of dioxin 26 times the desirable limit have been detected in human breast milk.
collection and disposal of waste in Japan, including construction of incinerators is a company of 200 billion, according to Takagi income derived by local governments of that, he said, is one of the reasons why they are in no hurry to reduce the amount of waste.
points of garbage collection in Tokyo are bottles common site are placed in yellow boxes while blue unions hold magazines, newspapers and corrugated nets used to cover waste containing leftover food to prevent crows Crows eat are a serious problem in many Japanese cities.
Prayer of St. Basil Now I live in Tokyo There is a large incinerator just under half a mile from our headquarters Colomban I wonder how much dioxin that it emits.
When I think of Japan and the garbage problem of dioxin, I remember the prayer of St. Basil.
O God, enlarge us sense of communion with all living beings, even our brothers the animals, to whom you have given the land as their home together with we remember with shame that in the past we have exerted strong domination of man with merciless cruelty for the voice of the earth, which should have gone to you in the song, was a pain rattle can we realize they live, not not only for us, but for themselves and for you, and they love the sweetness of life.
I think we should take heart all the words of a wise person whose name escapes me It is not far away no longer exists, we can not throw things away No matter where or how we eliminate something it will affect us and the rest of the Earth.
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