[How to separate your garbage (Iwatsuki Ward only)]
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| The garbage collection site is managed and operated by groups such as the residents' association. |
| Please be sure to follow the sorting guidelines below, and dispose of your garbage in the specified garbage bags, at the specified garbage collection site, no later than 8:30am on the specified day of collection in order to prevent inconvenience for other users of the garbage collection site or your neighbors. (Items disposed of at the garbage collection site must be no larger than 90cm. You must arrange for door-to-door pick-up for any garbage that exceeds 90cm. For details, please refer to the section on how to put out bulk waste.) |
| Garbage collection days vary according to district. Please refer to the "List of Garbage Collection Days for Iwatsuki District". |
| Categories |
Collection frequency |
Type of bag |
Method of disposal |
| Recyclable items |
Cans, bottles, PET bottles |
Once a week |
Container for each separate category type |
Please rinse the insides clean and place them directly
into the separately-colored containers. Cans = Yellow
container Items that can be recycled - cans containing
consumable products. eg. cans containing fruits, juice,
coffee, cookies, candy, alcoholic drinks, etc. Bottles
= Blue container eg. bottles containing jam, vinegar,
oil, beer, foreign liquor, etc. PET bottle = Brown container
PET bottles containing consumable products that are marked
with the recyclable
eg. soft drinks, sake, mirin, soy sauce, etc. |
| Used paper |
Once a week |
Bundle together with string according to separate category type |
Please bundle newspapers, magazines, cardboard boxes, and milk cartons separately with a string.
* Please dispose of photographs and waterproof paper with the "Plastics." Paper plates and cups are categorized as "Burnable Garbage" |
| Old fabrics |
Once a week |
Transparent bag |
Old clothing, rags, neckties, towels etc.
* Please dispose of mats, futons, Japanese cushions, etc. with the "Burnable Garbage". |
| Toxic/Hazardous waste |
Dead dry cell batteries Mercury thermometers Dead fluorescent light tubes Empty spray cans Lighters |
Once a week |
Place waste into separate transparent bags according to each category |
Used batteries and mercury thermometers
Spray cans, disposable lighters and compressed gas cartridges
Please place them in bags, separated according to type.
Please dispose of these bags at the edge of the rubbish collection point, separate from other rubbish.
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| Non-burnable garbage |
Metals, glass, crockery (chinaware) items (excluding recyclable items) |
Once a week |
Transparent bag |
Metals (pots/pans, kettles, 18 Liter cans), chinaware, glass waste, cosmetics bottles, toasters, light bulbs, and home electronic appliances that are less than 90 cm excluding "personal computers, and items specified under the Home Appliance Recycling Law" |
| Plastics |
Once a week |
Transparent bag |
Carpeting (mats, carpets), other items (plastic shopping bags, rubber goods, plastic food trays, detergent containers, cassette tapes, video tapes, Styrofoam, etc.) |
Burnable garbage |
Twice a week |
Transparent or semi-transparent bag |
Food waste, leather goods, futons and carpeting, blankets, clippings from shrubs and trees (90 cm or less in length and 10 cm or less in diameter. The bundle must be less than 30 cm in diameter)
*Please dispose of plastics with the Non-combustible "Plastics" garbage. |
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| ●How to apply for door-to-door pick-up of garbage |
| ●How to disposal of refrigerators and freezers, air conditioning units, CRT-based, LCD and plasma TVs, washing machines and tumble dryers. |
| ●"List of Garbage Collection Days for Iwatsuki District" |
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