Matsukawa Village Manual for Sorting Household Garbage and Recyclable Resources
Put out your garbage by 8:00 a.m. on garbage collection days *Make sure to mark your district and your name on garbage bags.
Collection Day

Classification

Garbage Type
Paper diapers
Wood chips(after flushing bodyor less in thickness（5 cmLength
50 cm or less ）waste down the toilet)
Kitchengarbage

Monday&Combustibles
Friday2nd
Thursday3rdThursday

Bottles
Glass
Pottery waste

Unclean paper
Stickers
Transparentbottles

Metallic waste●Drain kitchen garbage
completely.
Shoes/boots ●Put combustibles ina dedicated bag for
combustibles.
●Tie the bag closed
CDs/DVDs
securely before
putting it out.
ShellsSmearedplastics& tubes

Brown bottles

Other colored bottles

Those to be washedBottles used tocontain food ordrink

Put them directly into thecollection station container.
(Take the bag home.)

LED lamps
Brokenfluorescentlamps

Put them directly into thecollection station container.
(Take the bag home.)

Pieces of broken glass & Pottery Cosmetics Milky bottle
bottles

Cans

Aluminum cans
Steel cans
Spray cans &gas cartridges(Make a hole.)

Tin products

How to Get It Ready

Those to be washed

Cans for beverages only

Put them in a dedicatedbag for incombustibles.

Other metals (frying pans, pots, kettles)

Put them in a dedicatedbag for incombustibles.
Wire hangers

Plastic containers& packaging
Those without thissymbol mark are“Combustibles.

2nd&4thSaturdays

Paper containers& packaging
Those without thissymbol mark are“Combustibles.”PET bottles
Paper cartons
Cardboards

Styrene foam packing(too large to fit into a bag)Write your district
and your nameusing a marker pen.

Confusing itemsCups
Packages

Bottles

Plastic trays(incl. white trays)
Plastic bags
Paper bag

Plastic waste other thancontainers and packaging
should be discarded as
combustibles or bulky
garbage.
(E.g.)

Plastic products suchas toys, buckets, tubs
and toothbrushes

Those to be washed●Put them in a dedicatedbag for incombustibles.
●The waste must be putin transparent bags.

Items with hard-to-remove stains
should be put out as combustibles.

Wrapping paper Confusing items Put them in a dedicated
Other types of paper
bag for incombustibles.
Cardboards
These items can be boundMagazines
crosswise or bagged up
Boxes
for collection.
Handbills,etc.
Mark your district and your name even on bundled or bagged-up paper boxes.
PET bottles

Paper cartonsDiscard PET bottles as “Plasticcontainers & packing” waste after
removing their caps and labels.
Discardstickers
ascombustibles.; No need toremove rings around the bottle
neck or color-classify.

Milk orjuice papercartons

Cardboards*Classify cartonswith a silver-coatedinterior as“Paper containers& packing.”●Put PET bottles ina dedicated meshed bag.
●Flatten paper cartons andtie them crosswise before
placing them for collection.

You can also use shop-front collections.

Flatten cardboards andtie items crosswise before
placing them for collection.
Make a bundle of about
1 meter square.

Cardboards
andthe like

Newspapers

Those to be washed

Magazines, etc.

Magazines,
Last Sunday Newspapers
Newspapers andbefore placing them
comic books,fliers can bebooks, catalogues, for collection.
ofMagazines
bundled together.
envelopes, etc.
odd-numbered
Blankets, old clothes, cotton blankets, bed sheets, curtains
Old clothes
Put them in a dedicatedmonths&bag for incombustibles.
material●Max. dimensions: Length 2m×Width 1.2m×Height 1m●
Monday~Friday
Combustible Hotaka Clean Center
8:30~16:30(TEL: 0263-82-2147).
Bulky refuse Be sure to call the center
SaturdayDirect delivery (fee charged) beforehand.
8:30~11:30
Weekday 8:30~16:00 ●Items you cannot take to the collection station●
Bulky refuse G-Friendly Inc.
June 4 & December 3

Tie them crosswise

These items are accepted only if they areclean, dry and without wear or tear. (Buttonsand fasteners can be left in place.) Discard
rejected items as combustible waste.

Wood: Up to 20cm in diameter for pruned trees; up to 20cm in length of each side forrectangular timber
Plastic products: Those without themark.

*Remove incombustibles such as metallic, magnetic and glass materials.
*Bind long objects, such as futon quilts and carpets, within specified max. dimensions.

(fee charged)(TEL: 62-6455).
Be sure to call G-Friendly
beforehand.

circular,Bringing Fluorescent Long-tube,
and light-bulb types
lamps
in toManganese batteries,
Village Office Batteries nickel-cadmium batteries,

alkali batteries, button batteries

8:30~12:00

Tires, batteries, bikes, furniture, electrical appliances, etc.
Burned ash (ONLY of firewood, briquet coal, or “mametan” oval briquet)
Disposable lighters (ONLY those with their contents used up)●Light bulbs, glass glow lamps, and broken fluorescentlamps are classified as “Glass and pottery waste.”●Place them for collection as such.
●Put them in a transparent bag. Do not tape them up
with Scotch tape or the like.
●Put out batteries as “Bulky refuse.”

For inquiries: Living Environment Unit, Resident Section, Matsukawa Village Office

TEL: 62-3112 FAX: 62-9405

Matsukawa Village Manual for Sorting Household Garbage and Recyclable Resources