Sort Your Garbage and Recyclable Resources Properly

● Combustible Waste: Twice a week
Please dispose of combustible waste at the designated location for your home (or communal housing) by no later than 8:00 a.m. (no later than 7:30 a.m. for early-morning collection areas) in a transparent or semitransparent bag so that the contents can be seen.
• Items such as kitchen scraps, paper scraps, disposable diapers, soiled plastic containers/wrapping, plastic items, rubber items, leather items, small amounts of wood scraps, drying agents and cooling agents.
Notes: Please drain kitchen scraps as much as possible before disposal.

● Ceramic, Glass and Metal Items: Twice a month
Please dispose of these items at the designated location for your home (or communal housing) by no later than 8:00 a.m. (no later than 7:30 a.m. for early-morning collection areas) in a transparent or semitransparent bag so that the contents can be seen.
• Items made of ceramics, glass (note that beverage bottles are recyclable resources) and metal, and disposable pocket warmers.
Notes:
1. Wrap sharp items—such as broken fluorescent lights, light bulbs and knives—in thick paper, and label the package “kiken (dangerous)” before disposal.
2. Use up the contents of gas cassettes, spray cans and lighters completely, and dispose of these containers in a separate bag apart from ceramic, glass and metal items.
3. Please take hypodermic needles used for home medical treatment to any pharmacy having a sign that says: “used hypodermic needle collection pharmacy.”

● Recyclable Resources: Once a week
Please dispose of recyclable resources at a designated collection station by no later than 8:00 a.m.
• Items such as newspapers, magazines, cardboard, milk cartons, food and beverage bottles, food and beverage cans, plastic PET bottles, clean plastic containers/wrapping, dry-cell batteries (sizes D through N and square-shaped 9V ones), unbroken fluorescent lights, mercury thermometers, and mercury blood-pressure measuring devices.
Note: Please bundle items according to type, or place them in a transparent or semitransparent bag so the contents can be seen.

● Other Recyclable Resources: Second and Fourth Saturdays
Please dispose of other items listed below at a designated location (thirty-one locations in the city) between 10:00 a.m. and noon.
• Items such as old clothes, rags, small electric household appliances, used cooking oil and gardening soil.
Note: For more information, please read Shinagawa Info (guidebook for foreign residents).

Inquiries: Shinagawa City Waste Collection Office
Shinagawa Office, Tel: 3490-7051
Ebara Office, Tel: 3786-6552
Recycling Promotion Subsection, Tel: 3490-7098