Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Japan is famous for its spotless streets. So why are public rubbish
bins so hard to find?
If you visit a popular tourist destination or walk down a street in a
Chinese city, you’ll find countless trash bins, but hardly any in Japan. Still,
most places in Japan are no less clean than those in China. But after consuming
sandwiches and drinks bought at a convenience store or McDonald’s, where do
people discard the trash? In Japanese cities, trash bins are only found at convenience
stores, train stations, and service areas on toll highways, but not at public
places or facilities, such as parks or museums, where signs asking visitors to
take their trash home are put up. So, tourists end up hanging on the trash
until they find trash bins. Once they find trash bins, they need to sort out
which garbage to put into which bins, because proper waste management is a key
part of daily life and culture in Japan. Waste is generally divided into several
categories, such as burnable, plastic, PET bottles, cans, and glass
bottles. Though you may feel it is a little inconvenient, garbage sorting is
the first step to keep the societies and the environment clean.
Read the article and learn why trash bins are so rare in Japan.
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