Tokyo is a city of 37,000,000 inhabitant and this number of people create a tremendous amount of garbage every day, to the extent that is beyond everyone's imagination. Why? Because everything is wrapped in plastic! It's worse than the US and Canada!
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| Garbage and recyclable items are separated and neatly put at the side of a sidewalk, waiting for the collector. Some bags have labels, probably to inform the facility what they are. Japan is just amazing |
If you go out early in the morning, bags of garbage are everywhere and shortly trucks show up to collect them and they truly do a good job because most of the places are clean after that. The interesting thing is you cannot find any trash can in the entire city of Tokyo except for hotels or perhaps some other places. I think the idea behind that is to discourage people to carry something with them which needs to go to a public garbage bin and ultimately reducing the collection cost, which is great.
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| 7-11 convenience stores are part of daily life in Japan. I don't eat the regular meal that is consumed three times a day in Japan! I don't eat noodles, boiled cabbage, raw fish and stuff like that. So, I had to resort to nuts and fruits which are not easy to come by. Here you see a small bag of nuts I bought, and the amount of plastic garbage is overwhelming! |
I never saw anyone littering but people leave the recyclable containers at the side of roads or sidewalks. There are small boxes for throwing recycling bottles and cans in them but there are very limited compared with the number of vending machines!
(Photo, top: Garbage truck in early morning in Tokyo. It's probably shortly before 06:00. This although not a dangerous neighbourhood but is relatively poor, I'd say. Lots of Nepalese and other people from Indian sub-continent live here but, again, is safe and clean. You just get irritated by the annoying and squeaking voice of them! Garbage and recycling is not as bad as Tokyo in smaller cities)
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