Sort Your Garbage and Recyclable Resources Properly

● Combustible Waste: Twice a week
Please dispose of combustible waste out at the designated location for your home 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 products, rubber items, leather items, small amounts of wood scraps, drying agents and cooling agents.
Note: Please drain kitchen scraps as much as possible before disposal.

● Ceramic, Glass and Metal Items: Twice a month
Please put these waste items out at the designated location of your home 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.
○ Ceramic and glass items (note that beverage bottles are recyclable resources), light bulbs, and metal (note that beverage cans other than large itto [18-liter] cans are recyclable resources), and disposable pocket warmers.
Notes:
1. Wrap items—such as light bulbs and knives—in thick paper, and label the package “キケン (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. If there is anything left inside, do not pierce the container; instead, write a label “中身入り (with contents inside).”
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 take your items to the nearest recyclable resource collection station by 8:00 a.m. Bundle them with string according to type, or place them in a transparent or semitransparent bag so that the contents can be seen.
○ Items such as newspapers, magazines, cardboard, paper boxes, paper, milk/juice 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), fluorescent lights, mercury thermometers, and mercury blood-pressure measuring devices.

● Other Recyclable Items: Second and Fourth Saturdays
Please bring other items listed below at a designated collection station (31 locations in the city) between 10:00 a.m. and noon.
○ Items such as old clothes, cloth, small electronic devices, waste cooking oil and waste gardening soil.
Note: For more information, please check the Shinagawa City website (top page > Environment/Town Development > Garbage/ Recycle).

Inquiries: Shinagawa City Waste Collection Office
Shinagawa Office, Tel: 03-3490-7051, Fax: 03-3490-7041
Ebara Office, Tel: 03-3786-6552, Fax: 03-3783-5780
Recycling Promotion Subsection, Tel: 03-3490-7098