Reduce |
Step 1: Do not produce garbage.
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Let’s reduce items in our everyday lives that ultimately turn into garbage.
- Do not accept plastic shopping bags or other unnecessary wrapping.
- Choose refillable products for such items as detergents and shampoos to reduce the amount of plastic bottles that are thrown away.
- Buy adequate amounts of food and prepare meals without wasting it.
- Try not to use disposable products, such as paper cups and disposable chopsticks.
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Reuse |
| Step 2: Use items over and over again.
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Let’s get the best out of what we have by using items over and over again.
- Do not throw away clothes that you no longer need. Instead, give them to someone who needs them by taking them to secondhand shops or flea markets or putting up ads on bulletin boards for used goods.
Clothes and Sundries: Recycle Shop “Ribbon” in Hatanodai (5-13-9 Hatanodai, Tel: 5498-7803)
Furniture and Gifts: Recycle Shop “Ribbon” in Oimachi (Dai-san Chosha, Shinagawa City Office, Tel: 5742-6933) |
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Recycle |
Step 3 : Recycle used items.
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Turn used items into resources for new things that can be used again.
- Dispose of recyclable items at recyclable resource collection stations (newspapers, magazines, cardboard, paper cartons, cardboard boxes, bottles and cans used as food and beverage containers, plastic PET bottles, and dry-cell batteries), basic collection sites (food trays, used clothing, and used cooking oil), and ECO Boxes (food trays and paper cartons).
*In some model program communities where sorting categories have been changed, fluorescent lights and clean plastic containers and wrapping are collected at recyclable resource collection stations.
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