Imizu City Hall Environmental Division℡

０７６６－５１－６６２４Garbage Rules for Imizu Residents
・Don’t leave garbage in the area or building you manage or live in.
・Don’t burn garbage in the area or building you manage or live in.

You Yo・You can dispose of garbage on the morning of your district’s garbage day.
・When you put out garbage, put it in the place your Neighborhood Association has designated.
・To put garbage out in the place the Neighborhood Association manages, you need to get theirpermission.
・Non-residents of Imizu City can’t put garbage there.
・Even if they are a friend of an Imizu resident who uses that garbage area, a person who lives inanother city can’t put their day-to-day garbage there.
・Put the garbage out in the place the Neighborhood Association looks after by 8 a.m. on garbage day.
・If you’re disposing of burnable garbage, be sure to put it in a designated Imizu City garbage bag.
You can’t use Toyama City or Takaoka City bags.
・Put out bottles, cans, PET bottles, plastic containers and packaging, and paper containers andpackaging out on the day they collect recycling. (Wash them out with water first.)

Imizu divides garbage into Burnable and Unburnable. However, please don’t put plastic
containers and packaging, paper containers and packaging, cans, PET bottles, or bottles
that had food or drink in them with the trash. Those are taken separately for recycling.
Plastic containers and packaging, paper containers and packaging, and PET bottles havea mark on them.
① Plastic containers and packaging have this markＴｒａｙｓ
Ｓｈｏｐｐｉｎｇ bags

Prasti

Egg
Cartons
Styrol packaging

Cup noodle
packaging

Nets from apples etc.
Shampoobottles②Paper containers and packaging have this markTissue boxes

Empty Cookie boxes
etc.

Papertubes

Paperbags
Wrappingpaper
Paper cups and lids forice cream etc.

③PET bottles have this mark

Putting Out Burnable Garbage●Cut everything 40cm (15 in.) or smaller, and put it out in a designated Imizu garbage bag.

CD/DVDsand cases

Small cloth
articlesDrain wet garbage before
putting it in.

Leather goods,
footwear

Break bamboo
skewers in half andwrap in paper.

ShellsBreak branches into
40cm(15 in.) long and10cm (4 in.) thick or lessLeaves, grass

Cut rubber hose
into 40 cm (15 in.)sections

Soak up excess cooking oilwith paper or cloth.
Remove dirty items.

Cut futons, blankets, and mats into 40x40cm (15x15 in.) sections
before throwing them out. You can’t put them out whole.

＊Do not burn your own garbage.

【Designated Imizu Garbage Bag】

Putting Out Unburnable Garbage
What to put with unburnables (no designated bag)

● Metal goods like pots and pans
Cans with things stuck in them can’tなどの金属製品

be recycled, so put them out onunburnable day.

For unburnable spray cans and gas canisters, please be sure
to put a hole in them in a well-ventilated or outdoor placewith no open flames. Please bag them separately. Thankyou for helping us prevent accidents.

● Ceramics and glass
Makeup bottlesなどの金属製品

Oil bottles
Medicine bottles

Tableware, pottery

Flat glass

Glass cups

● Small electric appliances (not including TVs, refrigerators, washingmachines, or air conditioners)●Children’s toys
Vacuumcleaners
Toys

Microwaves
ンジCameras
ラHousehold printers◎Please separate out spraycans, fluorescent lights, batteries, andlighters into their own bags by type so they aren’t mixed with othergarbage.

Putting Out Recyclables
Please put out the following 5 things in the place designated by your area on recycling
day, not with the garbage.

① Plastic containers and packaging

Please rinse and put in the receptacle.

Trays

Shopping
bags
Egg Cartons

Plastic bags
Cup noodle packaging② Paper containers and packaging
unbagged.
③
Paper tubes

Cups and lids forice cream etc.

Paper bags

Please rinse and put in the receptacle

④ PET Bottles
Please rinse clean, remove cap and label, and put in the receptacle.
Cap and label go with plastics

Remove cap andlabel, rinse⑤ Food and Drink Bottles

Please rinse clean, separate colors into brown,
clear, and other, and put in the receptacle.

Clearbottles

Brown bottles

Other(black,green,blue）
bottles⑥ Food and Drink Cans

Please rinse clean and put in the receptacle
Snack tins

Nori tins
Soft drink cans
Milk tins
Tea tins

Things That Can Never Be Put Out in the Community Garbage Area

Roof tiles
TVs
Washing machines/
dryersAshes

Refrigerators/
freezers

Landfill waste such as tiles,
large Pottery,Concrete,ashes,rubble,or gutter sludge

Air Conditioners

Drum cans

Gas cans

Batteries

Tires
Fire
extinguishers

Desktop
Computers
LaptopComputers

CRTmonitars

LCD monitors