Please Cooperate with Recycling Efforts!
Shinagawa City collects three types of garbage and resources: (1) combustible garbage; (2) ceramic, glass, and metal garbage; and (3) recyclable resources. Recyclable resources are collected at recyclable resource collection stations. We can change our living environment significantly if we are careful with our limited resources and stop to think before throwing things away, which reduces the amount of garbage. Please cooperate in the efficient use of resources.
Inquiries: Recycling Promotion Subsection, Shinagawa Trash and Recycling Collection Office, Tel: 3490-7098
Station Collections
Recyclable resources are collected once a week at recyclable resource collection stations. Since the collection day varies with each community, please dispose of your items by 8 a.m. on your community’s collection day. Trucks collect items in a designated order:
Collection Items
| 1) Newspapers
and fliers |
2) Magazines
and books |
3) Cardboard |
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| 4) Milk cartons |
5) Paper boxes and paper such as confection boxes, tissue boxes, paper bags, envelopes, pamphlets, photocopy paper, wrapping paper and memo paper |
| Note: Please rinse, cut open and dry before disposal. Cartons with an aluminum foil lining on the inside are considered combustible garbage. |
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Notes about 1) through 5):
Please bundle the items with string according to type, or place them in a paper bag before disposal. Heat-sensitive paper, photographs, paper for photographs, carbon paper, soiled paper boxes, iron-on printed paper, waterproof or laminated paper are not recyclable. Please dispose of these as combustible garbage.
| 6) Bottles for beverages |
7) Cans for beverages |
| Note: Please remove the caps. Retail shops collect returnable bottles such as issho-bin sake bottles and beer bottles. |
Note: please do not put objects inside |
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8) Plastic bottles
Note: please remove the caps and labels
Notes about 6) through 8):
Please rinse items lightly before disposal.
Place items in transparent bags or in containers according to type.
Please dispose of broken bottles and large itto-kan cans on the collection day for ceramic, glass, and metal garbage. Items that have oil or dirt on them, or items inside, such as cigarette butts, cannot be recycled.
| 9) Clean plastic containers such as egg cartons, the caps and labels from plastic PET bottles and clothes with the identifying mark |
10) Fluorescent lights that are not broken |
| Note: Rinse items lightly and place them in a transparent bag before disposal. Please dispose of soiled items as combustible garbage. |
Note: To prevent damage, please place them in the box or other container you purchased them in. Please dispose of broken items on the collection day for ceramic, glass, and metal garbage. |
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| 11) Dry cell batteries (such as sizes “tan-ichi” through “tan-go” and square-shaped 9V ones) |
12) Mercury thermometers and blood pressure measuring devices |
| Note: Place items in a transparent bag. For rechargeable batteries and button-type batteries, please use the recycle box at cooperating shops. |
Note: Please place items in their cases before disposal to keep them from breaking. |
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Designated Collection
Old clothes, used cooking oil, gardening soil, and small household appliances that are no longer needed are collected at the designated collection sites listed below.
Days and hours: second and fourth Saturdays of the month, 10 a.m. to 12 noon
Note: Items are also collected on rainy days and on national holidays.
Items That Can and Cannot Be Collected
Old clothes and rags: Please wash before disposal.
| Items that cannot be collected: down jackets, items with cotton stuffing, socks, uniforms, neckties, underwear, carpets, bath mats, diaper covers, etc. |
Items that can be collected: general clothing other than the abovementioned, sheets, blanket, futon covers, curtains, etc. |
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Used cooking oil: Place in a container before disposal.
Items that cannot be collected: oil mixed with water, kerosene and/or gasoline
Items that can be collected: cooking oil (both animal fat and vegetable oil are acceptable)
| Unneeded garden soil: place in a bag before disposal |
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| Items that cannot be collected: soil mixed with dry branches, rotten soil, soil mixed with other objects, soil produced as a result of business operations, and soil that is not used for gardening |
Items that can be collected: gardening soil for potted plants, etc.
Note: The maximum amount is up to about two planters-full of soil. Pots and planters cannot be collected. |
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Small household appliances: place in designated collection box
Note: Please delete all data, such as personal information, from such items as cell phones before disposal.
Items that can be collected: Items smaller than 10 cm by 25 cm, digital music equipment, cell phones, digital cameras, game devices, electronic dictionaries, in-vehicle devices, and accessories such as AC adaptors
Designated Collection Locations:
○Shinagawa City Office (2-1-36 Hiromachi)
○Shinagawa Trash and Recycling Collection Office (1-14-1 Osaki)
○Community Centers
Shinagawa Dai-ichi (3-11-16 Kita-Shinagawa), Osaki Dai-ichi (3-6-3 Nishi-Gotanda), Oi Dai-ni (2-27-20 Oi), Oi Dai-san (4-1-8 Nishi-Oi), Yashio (5-10-27 Yashio)
○Elementary Schools
Daiba (1-8-30 Higashi-Shinagawa), Asamadai (6-8-8 Minami-Shinagawa), Jonan Dai-ni (3-4-5 Higashi-Shinagawa), Dai-san Hino (1-19-19 Kami-Osaki), Dai-ichi Hino (6-5-32 Nishi-Gotanda), Hosui (3-12-22 Osaki), Mitsugi (3-16-28 Nishi-Shinagawa), Tachiai (4-15-9 Higashi-Oi), Suzugamori (4-16-2 Minami-Oi), Oi Dai-ichi (6-1-32 Oi), Ito (5-6-8 Nishi-Oi), Ushiroji (2-4-6 Koyama), Koyama (5-10-6 Koyama), Dai-ni Enzan (1-6-1 Hatanodai), Keiyo (2-19-20 Hiratsuka), Enzan (2-17-5 Nishi-Nakanobu), Miyamae (4-5-10 Togoshi), Hatanodai (4-7-11 Hatanodai), Ohara (6-17-3 Togoshi)
○Integrated Elementary and Junior High Schools
Hino Gakuen (2-11-1 Higashi-Gotanda), Ito Gakuen (5-1-37 Oi), Hoyonomori Gakuen (1-3-40 Futaba) |
| Note: Please do not leave items at the facility during noncollection hours. |
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