We cannot live without wasting valuable natural resources and contaminating the earth.
We are exposed to threats of global warming,destruction
of ozone layer, dioxin and environmental hormone.
It is time that we should be more cognizant
of the gravity of living in environment-friendly manner.
What we are now required is to change our
life style and our ways of thinking about
the environment and to try not to generate garbage.
Disposal cost of huge volume of waste
created in our daily lives and through production
activity is covered by our tax. Many local
governments have a serious problem of increasing
disposal cost every year.
Okinawa prefecture, with a population of
1,310,000, spends 10 billion yen (about 100
million US dollars) annually in order to
dispose waste, which means that each person
in Okinawa spends 7,196 yen (about 70 US
dollars) a year. The cost is 19,739 yen (about
190 US dollars) per ton.
It seems like our money is gulped by garbage.
Another problem is that we are running out of landfills.
A vast amount of money could be necessary
to obtain space to bury waste. At the same
time we must protect the environment around
waste dump sites and ensure safety of such
sites more strictly than we do now.
We are called on for reducing the amount
of garbage in our daily lives in order to
save our money. And to create a social system
which makes us to reduce garbage is urgently
necessary. Waste Management Expenditure
Let's do something you can！
The key to solving the garbage problem is that we do not buy disposable
goods. It is also important to try not to generate garbage. Do you purchase
excess packaged items or do you buy something without thinking of the environment?
To establish a recycling conscious society, the first step we can easily
take is to separate and collect recyclable products. And we should buy
recycled items.
To separate and collect garbage helps
recycle more effectively. According to rules
of each local government, you separate garbage
and take it out at the right time and in
the right place. There are many kinds of
garbage which can be recycled and returned
to materials.Separating garbage is not difficult
thing to do for us, which leads to reducing
the amount of garbage.
burnable |
non-burnable |
recyclable waste |
toxic waste |
large-sized discarded article |
〜Mixing begets garbage, Classifying begets resource〜
There is a kind of garbage which can be recycled into resources. To separate
garbage is easy thing to do which lead to reducing the garbage.
※ Follows are examples to separate garbage. However the ways are different in each region. If you have a question, inquire the appropriate section of local government.
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