non-burnable rubbish

[hairygateau]

in order to be properly "ECO", I separate my rubbish into burnable and non-burnable.

Anyone know what they do with the non-burnable stuff? I am assuming it just gets chucked in landfill or the sea. Glad I am doing my bit for the planet.

[GuyJean]

.. Anyone know what they do with the non-burnable stuff?..

Landfills? Where?.. I think they just burn it at a higher temperature.. Or sell it as fleece at your nearest Uniqlo.

GJ

[Taro Toporific]

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Anyone know what they do with the non-burnable stuff? I am assuming it just gets chucked in landfill or the sea. Glad I am doing my bit for the planet.

The local governments do not like to admit it, but some neighborhoods like GuyJean's may require separating the non-burnables into groups of glass, PET bottles, steel cans, aluminum cans, but they don't recycle it.

If the economic conditions are crappy and scrap prices are low, they just dump it together in landfills that berm the sides of the roads like Yokohama's Hotogya interchange (to build roads and housing over the landfill). Basically, they won"t be happy until they have filled in the entirety of the country's bays until the whole country is just one big concrete island. Additionally, Japan has never recycled one-time-use glass bottles, which must be separated by color--clear, green, and amber---for proper recycling.

The only true eco recyclers are my regeeojisan-tachi who gather aluminum cans and newspapers. However, my homeless homies say that nobody is interested in buying newsprint because of the Great Recession. Likewise, a 80kg sack of steel cans has dropped to 50 yen, and aluminum can are only yielding 30% of their 2007 price.

BOTTOM LINE: Don't sweat it---Your J-government doesn't.

[wuchan]

cool greenpeace anamation thingie:
HERE!!!!!!!!

[dimwit]

The only true eco recyclers are my regeeojisan-tachi who gather aluminum cans and newspapers. However, my homeless homies say that nobody is interested in buying newsprint because of the Great Recession. Likewise, a 80kg sack of steel cans has dropped to 50 yen, and aluminum can are only yielding 30% of their 2007 price.

BOTTOM LINE: Don't sweat it---Your J-government doesn't.

regeeojisan-tachi seems an awfully clumsy way of talking about the Gomi-gnomes.

Incidently they vanished from our city back in January when the local government actually started enforcing the no stealing gomi ordinance. The result has been garbage collection that is about 100 times less effecient.

[IkemenTommy]

Speaking of Taro's gomi..