Sorting Trash

In Japan, there is no room for excess. In Shimonoseki, we have to sort our trash due to different pick-up and recycling days. There are four colored trash bags that have to be purchased from the grocery and certain types of trash have to be sorted in each bag. Trash pick up is Monday-Friday.

Mondays are Blue- which is plastic wrapping/packaging and small plastic containers such as for fruit or the container for eggs which are all plastic, shampoo bottles and the lids off of soda bottles.

Tuesdays and Fridays are for Red- which is burnable trash such as food, paper products like tissues, and small box packaging like tissue boxes.

Wednesdays are for Gray- which is newspaper, magazines, and cardboard/boxes. There is not a gray bag we just have to walk these items down to the trash area.

Also, every other Wednesday is Pink-which is for plastic bottles, but don't forget the lids go in Blue :)

Thursdays are Yellow- which is for glass bottles and aluminum cans.

We have a wonderful calendar that reminds us each month of the pick-up or if it is a holiday of some sort the trash will not be picked up on that day. If we happen to forget what goes in each bag, the back of the calendar has pictures of what goes where.

Below a picture of the place at our apartment where the trash bags are to be put for pick up each day.