How much do you know about garbage sorting in Japan?

When it comes to Japan, everyone will probably have the impression that Japan is small and has a large population, but Japan is clean and beautiful.

Behind the clean and tidy appearance is Japan's strict to almost abnormal garbage classification system.

Japan has always had a sense of crisis because it is biased towards an island. After the failure of World War II, we gradually began to seek internal optimization to avoid being occupied by garbage, which was already very limited living land.

As early as 1960, Japan put forward the 3R principles of garbage disposal, that is, rejection, reuse and recycling, which roughly translated into source reduction, making the best use of intermediate links and recycling of terminal links. The first formal implementation of garbage sorting began with 1975, and then it was gradually spread throughout the country.

To what extent is the garbage classification in Japan abnormal? Take a yogurt bottle as an example. After drinking yogurt, you should rinse the yogurt bottle first, take apart the packaging cover, external trademark and bottle body and throw them away respectively. If it is paper-packed yogurt, it should be washed and then flattened and piled up. Those who fail to classify according to regulations will be punished.

Garbage sorting in Japan has been popular since childhood. In school, primary school students have to undertake a certain amount of labor, and garbage sorting must be learned.

Garbage sorting pamphlets and slogans can be seen everywhere in streets, parks and hotels.

If garbage is produced in the street, many people will take it home to deal with it. There are few trash cans on the street.

If you live in a homestay, you should sort the garbage yourself, and there are many trash cans in your residence, usually two indoors and four on the balcony.

Different cities have different rules. For example, in Yokohama, garbage should be divided into 13 kinds, different things should be packed and recycled on different days. Dangerous garbage, such as broken porcelain, broken glass, sharp objects, etc., should be wrapped layer by layer and marked to prevent damage to cleaners.

Although it is mentioned that many people in Japan have an insurmountable national complex, we should still learn from each other's excellent places, such as garbage sorting.