Temporary Disposal Sites

Purpose of This Plan
There are predictions that there will be an enormous amount of disaster waste in Shinjuku
City as well in the future if a major disaster were to happen within Tokyo. Disposing ofdisaster waste quickly and appropriately is absolutely essential to ensure safety, peace ofmind when it comes to the health of residents and environmental hygiene and quick
disaster recovery.
For this reason, Shinjuku City established the "Shinjuku City Disaster Waste Disposal Plan"
with the goal of speeding up disaster recovery and reconstruction by establishing basicrules pertaining to the disposal of disaster waste such as disposal methods andimplemented systems for disposing disaster waste in the event of a natural disaster and bypromptly and properly disposing disaster waste, we can ensure a hygienic environment
after a disaster.

Disaster Waste
Natural disasters such as earthquakes can create a large amount of disaster debris such as
broken wood and blocks that come from collapsed houses and buildings.
Additionally, there will be trash such as broken dishes, glass and broken furniture andappliances even if a house has not collapsed.
Moreover, there will also be daily waste from thosetaking refuge in evacuation shelters and human wastefrom provisional toilets.
As such, debris, trash and human waste that
accompanies a natural disaster has been given thegeneral term of“disaster waste”.

Predicted Damage

Deaths

293 people

Injuries

6,792 people

Building Damage
Those Who Have Difficulty
Other
Traveling Home
Amount ofDisaster
Waste Produced

1

Demolition and Removal of Collapsed Buildings,
Disposing Debris
As a rule, the demolition of buildings that have collapsed due to disasters such as
earthquakes are handled by the owner of thebuilding. However, Shinjuku City may
demolish the building in place of the ownerfor personal residences when the Japanese
Government has taken special measuresdepending on the damage situation.
Additionally, Shinjuku City may similarly also
take care of the removal and disposal ofdebris.

Disaster Toilets

Below indicates the type of damage that is predicted in the event that an earthquake wasto happen directly under the city in the future.
Casualties

Temporary disposal sites function not only as a place to bring broken items you wish todispose of such as broken furniture and electronic appliances but also as temporary
locations to pile up debris that come from houses that have collapsed or been
demolished during and after natural disasters.
Disposing of trash in locations other than thedesignated temporary disposal sites can cause problems
such as obstructing traffic and be the cause of accidents
such as fires, foul odors and harmful insects so pleaseavoid disposing of waste in locations other than thetemporary disposal sites designated by Shinjuku City.

5,743 buildings
313,811 buildings

Evacuees

76,805 people

Disaster Debris
Disaster Waste*

1,371,222 tons

Human Waste

207,837 liters

84,475 tons

* Disaster waste refers to the total amount of broken items and evacuationsite waste that would be produced for 1 year following a disaster.

Flush toilets are not usable when water and sewage
services have been damaged in a disaster.
For this reason, please use the disaster toilets set up atevacuation sites or portable toilets that you have stored
yourself until water and sewage services have beenrestored.
Portable toilets that have been used as well as diapers,etc. will be collected as soon as possible. We ask thateach household please store these items until collection
services have been started.
2Garbage

Cans

Bottles

PET bottles