What Happens to Garbage in Japan
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Published 2022-11-14
Part 1: Does Japan have a plastic problem • Does Japan have a plastic problem?
Sources:
- How to sort garbage guide for foreign residents www.city.saga.lg.jp/main/50595.html
- Saga city garbage collection rules www.city.saga.lg.jp/main/3027.html
- Kamikatsu zero waste town www.nippon.com/en/guide-to-japan/gu900038/the-kami…
- Act on Promotion of Resource Circulation for Plastics www.meti.go.jp/english/press/2021/0309_001.html
- Oslo leading by example: world’s first CO2 capture and storage on waste incinerator to become reality in 2026 bellona.org/news/ccs/2022-03-oslo-leading-by-examp…
- CCS pilot phase successfully completed on Norwegian waste-to-energy plantwww.thechemicalengineer.com/news/ccs-pilot-phase-s…
- CCUS: Could this be the best-kept secret of climate solutions? • CCUS: Could this be the best-kept sec...
- Edogawa incineration plant goo.gl/maps/rEKaTmMrCdWkf9bY7?entry=yt
- Wasteland: Tokyo grows on its own trash www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2017/02/18/environment/w…
- UN Environment Programme: Waste-to-Energy Incineration www.iges.or.jp/en/publication_documents/pub/policy…
- The incinerator and the ski slope tackling waste www.bbc.com/news/business-49877318
- Understanding the carbon impacts of Waste to Energy incineration zerowasteeurope.eu/2020/03/understanding-the-carbo…
- Energy Recovery from the Combustion of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) www.epa.gov/smm/energy-recovery-combustion-municip…
- BURNING TRASH IS A CLIMATE DISASTER www.no-burn.org/zero-incineration/
- What’s Wrong with Burning Our Trash, Anyway? www.clf.org/blog/whats-wrong-with-burning-our-tras…
- CLEAN Authority of Tokyo List of Icineration plant facilities www.union.tokyo23-seisou.lg.jp.e.de.hp.transer.com…
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All Comments (21)
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i bet the crane operator must be amazing at the arcade crane games. no plushie is safe
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I always like how the Japanese handle their garbage and recycling. There is NO PERFECT method to deal with this issue, but Japan took the way they thought was the most appropriate given their situations. Thank you, Greg.
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Living in Japan just makes you think more about where your garbage goes. I remember being amused when a non-burnable pickup day came, because I could finally get rid of awkward metal pieces I had been holding onto.
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I used to live in a university town in the US that incinerated garbage as part of it’s electricity generation fuel mix. The biggest problem is getting people to seperate glass from that waste stream. When the glass goes through the incinerator it creates a slag that reduces efficiency. There are glass dropoffs around town, but people still include glass in their trash
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Cleanest waste facilities I have ever seen!
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This was excellent! I appreciate that you presented pros and cons of treating trash this way!
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Awesome video. Regarding the comment about putting incinerators in poor communities; to be specific, the Chuo ward incinerator is next to the Olympic village. And the both the Chuo and Minato ward incinerators are each, only 2 km away from some of the most expensive real estate in the country.
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I think all countries should share info and ideas like this and be more open to other ways of doing things and take advantage of works best.
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My greatest respect for Japanese people who are so disciplined. When I see how people sort their trash in Poland I want to cry.
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I lived and worked in Saga and absolutely adore it. It is an amazing place full of great people. I miss it every day.
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Back in my childhood days everything was so much easier. Liquids were in glass , fruits and veggies were lose , meat was wrapped in paper/ waxed paper . And the glass packaging was returnable .
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When I lived in Japan, I didn't think garbage sorting was that hard, just take your time and you will figure it out in the beginning. Here in Sweden, the recycling centers are so efficient that we import garbage from other countries.
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"I'm not an expert", yet your videos have helped me educate my friends and co-workers on how flawed our recycling system is in the United States compared to how it is in Japan and I even have helped them get a better eye for identification and sorting based on my inspiration from the Japanese- and your videos have been a part of this. Great job, man.
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those garbage trucks are SOO clean (and adorable looking)
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I think making the best use of a byproduct of a necessary process is an admirable thing.
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I like how clean the area looks. They take great pride in their surroundings. The trucks are even clean and look new.
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I love this channel so much! Actual information about Japan! Even the parts of Japan most people don’t talk about.
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This video pairs with my previous one about whether or not Japan has a plastic problem https://youtu.be/FU6WogV6UEg What do you think about the incineration process used in Japan?
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I recently moved to Saga City so this really is showing Life Where I'm From! It was cool getting to see exactly what happens to the trash I sort and put out in the crow-proof trash shed at my apartment according to the schedule I got when I moved in.
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Very interesting topic and video! It's interesting to see how certain things are handled in Japan.
