Household Garbage Disposal Guide

Municipal Environmental Department Tel. 323-1114

Leave your garbage at the collection station specified by your residents’ association by 8:00 a.m. on collection days.
To find out when your collection days are, see the calendar that is provided by the town hall.
Please empty and rinse out empty cans, glass bottles, PET bottles, and plastic containers before disposal.
Burnable garbage

Empty cans(food garbage)• You must use town-speciﬁed plastic collection
bags for burnable garbage (food garbage).

*Including any metal cap.

Collection bags for burnable garbage(food garbage) specified by Kitagata Town

• Spray cans pose a risk of exploding, so before
disposal, you must first use up their contents and thenpuncture the can with a can opener, nail, or other suchitem in a safe outdoor location away from fire.
• Be sure to remove these items from the bag and put
them in the recycling basket.
• Remove any foreign objects or substances.

Large (45 L), 1 package of 20: ¥1,000
Small (20 L), 1 package of 20:¥600

Make sure the garbage is adequately drained of water.
• Household wood waste and pruned branches should be cut into pieces 7
cm or less in diameter and 50 cm or less in length and then put in a
town-speciﬁed collection bag for burnable garbage (food garbage).
• You must not put cans and bottles in burnable garbage bags.

*Plastic caps should be put with plastic containers orburnable garbage (food garbage). Metal caps should beput with empty cans for disposal.

• Remove these items from the bag and put
them in the recycling basket.

PET bottles*There are collection boxes for white foodtrays at the town hall, at the home forworking women, at the public gymnasium,
and at the youth welfare center.

We collect items with this logo as PET bottles.
(beverages, soy sauce, alcohol, mirin, mentsuyu,
oil-free dressings, and other condiments)

1st Tuesday of the month (all zones)

Used paper• Put clothing in a see-through bag or tie it upwith string.
• Curtains, sheets, blankets, seat cushions,
pillows, towel blankets, etc. are treated asoversized garbage.
• Raincoats, socks, gloves, stockings, swimsuits,
underwear, cloth scraps, etc. should be disposed ofas burnable garbage (food garbage).
• Clothing that is wet or stained with oil, mud,dirt, etc. should be put with burnable garbage(food garbage) for disposal.

Collection of used paper is carried out
by local children’s organizations.
*There are no central collection stations.

Kitagata Recycling Center

You must bring a Clean Recycle admission ticket.
Kitagata Town Hall

Meiji Seika Pharma’s
Gifu factory

Itonuki River

Motoso Jukan Road

Heisei Park
Gifu Sekigahara Line
Noguchi Orthopedic
Surgery Clinic

Kitagata
RecyclingCenterSmall rechargeable batteries with the recycling logo should be taken tothe Recycling Center or put in the yellow box at a central recycling station.

(Small rechargeable batteries include NiCad batteries, NiMH batteries, and lithium-ion batteries
used in cell phones, cordless phones, digital cameras, etc.)

700 Hashiramoto, Kitagata (to the south of Meiji Seika Pharma’s Gifu factory)
Tel. 320-1530

Each person visiting the Recycling Center is responsible for loading and unloading his/her own recyclable garbage or oversized garbage.

Oversized garbage Fee: ¥400 / 10 kg• Sort (into metals, plastics, videotapes, and other) and put insee-through bags.
• If possible, separate metals from other materials.
• Cans of paint, oil, etc. should be emptied before disposal.
• We do not accepted garbage produced from commercialactivities. (See down below for more details.)• Sort your garbage by type at home and bring it in see-through bags.
• See the Household Garbage Disposal Guide for assistance on• Empty cans
• Clothingsorting used paper, clothing, glass bottles, empty cans,• Glass bottles• Used paper
plastic containers, PET bottles, earthenware, cooking oil,
• Plastic containers1 • Batteries
batteries, fluorescent tubes, etc.
• PET bottles• We do not accepted garbage produced from commercial activities. • Small rechargeable batteries
We do not accept burnable garbage (food garbage). • Nonburnable garbage

If you do not have an admission ticket, we will check your driver’s license or similar ID.

Apita

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*We do not collect oversized
garbage that is left atcollection stations.

Paid disposal

Closed for New Year’s holidays

Small rechargeable batteries• Oversized garbage should
be brought to the Recycling
Center. (A fee is charged.)Free disposal

Open days / hours (aside from public holidays)

Oversized garbage• There are collection boxes for batteries at the town hall, at the home forworking women, at the public gymnasium, and at the youth welfare center.
In addition to taking batteries to the above locations, you can dispose ofthem on nonburnable garbage collection day, which occurs once a year.

*Miscellaneous paper refers to postcards, envelopes, wrapping paper, pamphlets, notebook paper,
photocopier paper, receipts, paper scraps, and cardboard boxes for confections, food, clothing, etc.

Tue / Thur / Fri (9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m., 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.)
2nd / 4th Sun (9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m., 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.)• Glass tableware, ceramic tableware, ﬂuorescent tubes,
light bulbs, glass ashtrays, empty butane lighters, safety
razors, etc.
• Remove these items from the bag, sort by type, and put
them in the recycling basket.
• Safety razor blades and other dangerous items should be
wrapped for protection.
• We do not collect soda-lime glass and plateglass.
• Rinse the dirt out offlower pots and put themin the recycling basket.
*Planters are treated asoversized garbage.

Batteries• Sort paper items into magazines, newspapers,
miscellaneous paper, flyers, corrugated cardboard, anddrink cartons, and then tie them up with string.
• Drink cartons should be rinsed out, cut open, dried, andthen tied up with string.

Days the Recycling Center is open

Green tea

• Dirty PET bottles should be put with burnable garbage (foodgarbage) for disposal.
• Caps should be put with plastic containers for disposal.
• If possible, remove labels and put them with plastic containers for disposal.
• If possible, ﬂatten the bottles.
• You don’t need to forcibly remove the difﬁcult-to-remove soy saucebottle plug or the plastic ring that remains after removing the bottle cap.
• Remove these items from the bag and put them in the recycling basket.

We collect items with theplastic recycling logo.

Clothing

Nonburnable garbage

Sports drink• Rinse out dirty containers. Those that cannot be cleaned should be put withburnable garbage (food garbage) for disposal.
*Remove these items from the bag and put them in the special recycling basket.
• Plastic buckets, washbowls, toys, etc. are treated as oversized garbage.
Shampoo and conditioner pumps, plastic spoons, and straws should be
disposed of as burnable garbage (food garbage).
*Do not dispose of PET bottles as plastic containers.
*Remove plastic wrap.

• The town collects beverage bottles and cosmetics bottles.
• Divide bottles into three types before disposal: colorlesstransparent bottles, brown bottles, and other bottles.
• Remove any caps and rinse out the bottles.

*General metal items (steel rods, tin sheeting, steel coat hangers) are treated as oversized garbage.

Plastic containers*Please drive safely on the Recycling Center grounds.
(We accept absolutely no responsibility for accidents.)*Direction of trafﬁc on the recycling grounds isone-way, so you must enter by the east entrance.
Please bring a vehicle that is 2 tons or less.
*If transporting garbage with a light truck orsimilar, cover the bed with a sheet in the case ofrain to ensure the garbage doesn’t get wet.
*The Recycling Center may sometimes close due
to bad weather.
*Please make an appointment in advance for tours
and observation.

Glass bottles• The town collects beverage cans, food cans, spray cans, etc. (Kerosene drums
and paint cans excluded.)• Plastic plant and flower pots and planters*Rinse out the dirt first.

• Scissors• Plastic buckets• Kitchen knives • Bicycles• Paint cans
• DVDs and CDs• Curtains• Cabinets• Steel furniture Etc.

Other garbage

Garbage the town does not collectItems specified by the Home Appliance Recycling Act
Follow one of the following methods for disposal.
1. Ask the retailer that sold the appliance to take it. (Recycling fee + pick-up fee)
2. Ask a licensed business to take it. (Recycling fee + pick-up fee) Reservation required (See note 1)• Ibi-Motosu Cleaner Co., Ltd. — Tel. 323-0707 • Fuji Co., Ltd. — Tel. 323-0485
3. Take it to a designated disposal company yourself. (Recycling fee only)
Designated disposal companies in and around Kitagata• Saito Shoten Co., Ltd. 1330-10 Kano, Ono-cho, Ibi-gun Tel. 0585-34-3855• Seino Transportation Co., Ltd. 3-1-1 Ryutsu Center, Yanaizucho, Gifu-shi Tel. 279-2229 (See note 1)
Note 1: You must ﬁrst purchase a recycling ticket at the post ofﬁce.
The fee depends on the manufacturer and item being recycled. Inquire at the post ofﬁce counter for more information.
Please be aware that applicable appliances and recycling fees are subject to change as the law is revised.

Please take commercial garbage and temporarily high-volume household garbage to the following businesses.

General waste collection and transport companies *Reservation requiredLocation

Telephone

Ibi-Motosu Cleaner Co., Ltd.

391-1 Busshoji, Motosu-shi

323-0707

Fuji Co., Ltd.

1-14 Koyanagi, Kitagata-cho

323-0485

Tokai Environmental Service Center

527 Sunomata-cho Sunomata, Ogaki-shi

Nonomura Shoten Co., Ltd.

2-157 Norimatsu, Gifu-shi

Name0584-62-6662
239-9921