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Use authorized garbage bags for“Combustible garbage” and “Non-combustible garbage”

Your understanding and cooperation is requested with regard to the charges for household garbage collection to promote recycling, and reduce the amount of garbage, environmental burdens and expense of garbage disposal. * There is no change in the collection of recyclable garbage such as plastic items, plastic PET bottles and hazardous garbage.
Inquiries: Garbage Management Section Ext 2533

Garbage needs to be put in authorized garbage bags

• Maximum amount at one time: Up to three 40 liter bags.
• The collection schedule won’t be changed.

Combustible Garbage

Kitchen scraps, Non-recyclable paper (Tissue paper, photos, paper smaller than a business card, heat-sensitive paper, carbon-coated paper, carbonless paper, etc.),Non-recyclable clothes (Tattered fabric, soiled or torn clothes)

Non-combustible Garbage

Rubber, glass, ceramic, metal, and leather items, small household appliances (with every side measuring less than 30 cm), cans and bottles for oil and paint (make sure to empty the contents), things that cannot be disposed of as plastic garbage (umbrellas, laundry drying hangers, toys, buckets and video/cassettetapes)

Where to buy authorized garbage bags

<Type/price of the authorized garbage bags>

Type	Size	Price (10 bags in a package)
Mini bag	5 liters	90 yen
S size bag	10 liters	180 yen
M size bag	20 liters	370 yen
L size bag	40 liters	750 yen

Garbage not in the authorized garbage bags will not be collected!

Garbage collection charge exception

• Maximum amount at a time: Up to three bundles or three bags. (Not including the garbage from volunteer activities.)

Branches

Cut branches less than 80 cm long, 5 cm in thickness each, and bundle them smaller than 50 cm in diameter. Take them out as combustible garbage.

Leaves, Grass

Put them in transparent/semi-transparent bags (including plastic shopping bags) and take them out as combustible garbage.

Disposal Diapers(Not including diapers for pets)

Flush waste down the toilet and put them in transparent/semitransparent bags (including plastic shopping bags) and take them out as combustible garbage.

Garbage from area cleanup (From volunteer activities*1)

Take combustible and non-combustible garbage out separately in volunteer bags (*2).

*1The garbage collected from public cleanup such as from streets and rivers as volunteer activities.
*2 Please apply at the city hall or municipal office before the cleanup. (Both for individuals and volunteer groups)

Collect recyclable garbage and hazardous garbage for free!

No change to the collection schedule or rules how to separate and dispose.

Plastic PET Bottles

Bottles for beverages (including soy sauce, sake, and seasoning except cooking oil) with the PET mark.

Plastic Items

Hard and soft plastic products, items with the identifying plastic mark (trays, Styrofoam, PET bottle caps, egg cartons, plastic bags, plastic shopping bags, plastic film, food wrap, CD, DVD, urethane)

Empty Bottles and Cans

Bottles for food and beverages, cans for food (including pet food),beverages and sweets, aluminum/steel caps/lids

Old Paper

Newspapers (including fliers), cardboard, magazines (books), other paper(postcards, posters, wrapping paper, cardboard, receipt, business card,memo pad, paper bigger than business card (about 5cm×8cm)

Old Clothes

Clothes and underwear that can still be worn, blankets, sheets, cotton blankets, clean curtains (including lace curtains)

Hazardous Garbage

Spray cans, aerosol cans, gas cassettes, disposal lighters, fluorescent lights,dry-cell batteries, thermometers

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