Trash Collection Rules

Please place your trash at the designated collection site on the scheduled day by 8:00am. Do NOT put it out the night before.

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Burnable Waste

埋Landfill Waste

Food, paper, tree branches, small wooden products,
leather and fabric products, edible oils, sea shells,and diapers.

Pots, kettles, frying pans, glasses, porcelains, small
electric appliances, paint cans, buckets, washingbasins, clothes hangers, flower pots, and planters.

◎Put in a town designated bag for landfill waste.
◎If the trash is too big to ﬁt in a designated bag, it is considered large waste. Treat it as such.
◎Shattered glass and sharp tools such as knives and cutters: wrap them withcloth so that they don't cause injuries.
◎Empty jars, cans, and bags used for containing agricultural chemicals: consult theshop where you bought them.
◎Small used electric appliances: put them in collection boxes at the town hall or a town branch.

ビン Glass bottles & jars

◎Remove cap, empty bottles, and wash them thoroughly.
◎Put in a transparent bag so that the content is visible.
◎Glass bottles such as 1.8 littler bottles and beer bottles: return them to thestore where you bought them.
◎Bottles that still have contents, baby bottles, and glass cups: NOT recyclable.
Treat them as landﬁll waste.

缶 Cans◎Remove tab, empty cans, and wash them thoroughly.
◎Put in a transparent bag so that the content is visible.
◎Spray cans, aerosol cans, and cylinder bottles: use them up, and carefully puncture
a hole in them in a well ventilated place where there are no ﬂammables before placing
them at a collection site.
◎Bottles that still contain substances are NOT recyclable. Treat them as landﬁll waste.

Cans for drinks such as juice
and beer, and for foods includingsweets.

RPET Pet-bottles (PET)◎Remove cap, empty bottles, and wash them thoroughly.
◎Put in a transparent bag so that the content is visible.
◎Plastic bottles only. Other plastic containers such as egg cartons are excluded
even when they have a PET label on them. Non-bottle plastic containers arecategorized as recyclable plastic product waste.
◎Dirty plastic bottles are NOT recyclable. Treat them as burnable waste.

プラ Plastic products (Pla)◎Empty containers and wash them thoroughly.
◎Put in a transparent bag so that the content is visible.
◎Do NOT double-bag plastic products, such as using a grocery bag inside.
Put them directly in a transparent bag.
◎Containers which are not clean: treat them as burnable waste.
◎Non-disposable plastic products such as Tupperware are NOT recyclable.
Treat them as landﬁll waste.

Pet-bottles for juice, tea, cooking ricewine (mirin), soy sauce, and all otherdrinks and foods.
Plastic cups, bottles, plastic trays(not white), and bags, plastic wrap,
and caps of pet bottles.

発 Expanded polystyrene (EPS) foam

有Toxic Waste

粗大Large Waste*Non-edible oils must be solidified with coagulating agents or soaked in waste paper or cloth before placed at a collection site.

◎Diapers: remove stools from diapers.
◎Paper and books with metal attached such as ring binder type albums: remove metal parts.

Glass bottles for juice and other drinks,
and jars for foods and drinks such as coffee,
jam, and ponzu vinegar.

Recyclable Waste◎Put in a town-designated trash bag for burnable waste.
◎Drain liquid from kitchen garbage throughly before putting it in a collection bag.
◎Do not discard used cooking oils.
(Put them in collection boxes at the town hall or a town branch.)◎Empty containers and wash them thoroughly.

White EPS trays used for deli, fish, andmeat containers, and EPS foam used as fillers
for packing and portable cooler containers etc.

◎Put in a transparent bag so that the content is visible.

紙 Paper & used clothes
Newspapers, magazines, cardboard, wrapping paper,milk and juice cartons (the inside of which are white),shredded paper strips, and clothing that is in decent
condition.

◎Newspapers, magazines, cardboard, milk cartons and used clothes: tie them up
with a string or rope.
◎Magazines can be placed in a paper bag if only a few.
◎Do NOT tape them together with duct tape.
◎Milk cartons must be washed, dried, cut open, ﬂattened, and bundled.
◎Shredded waste paper strips must be put in a transparent plastic bag or a paper bag.
◎Clothes with synthetic ﬁber, and nylon and leather products are NOT recyclable.
Treat them as burnable waste.

Florescent light bulbs (EXCEPT LED bulbs)
Small batteries (EXCEPT rechargeable andbutton-type batteries)
Thermometers (EXCEPT digital thermometers).

◎Put in a transparent bag so that the content is visible.
◎Return rechargeable and button-type household batteries to the stores
where you bought them.
◎LED bulbs and digital thermometers are not grouped as toxic materials.
Treat them as landﬁll waste.

Desks, drawers, couches, sofas, beds, cupboards,
comforters, bicycles, electric fans, vacuum cleaners,and heaters, and all other large materials which don’t
fit in a designated landfill waste bag.

・When bringing things to the town’s general waste final disposable facility by yourself:◎EPS foam used in planters are NOT recyclable. Treat them as landﬁll waste.
◎Materials which are not clean are NOT recyclable. Treat them as landﬁll waste.

Open on Fridays (except holidays), 2:00pm to 4:00pm

・When using a designated professional waste collector:

The collector must have permission or license to collect general waste by law.
For details, please contact the citizen's department of the town hall

・When placing things at a collection site for large waste collection days:
1 Call Ikata-cho Citizen's Department 1 week prior to the large waste collection day and report the details about your trash (including the type of trash and your address).
2 You will receive a permission card from Ikata-cho by mail later.
3 Present the card at a town-designated trash bag store and purchase a sticker as proof that a disposal fee is paid.
4 Put the sticker on your large trash and place it at a designated site.

Prohibited
Materials

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Hazardous materials including gas cylinders, fire extinguishers, and car batteries.
Toxic materials including agricultural chemicals, bags used to contain fertilizer and pesticide, poisons,toxic solvents, and all other hazardous substances.
Materials regulated to be recycled by law including air conditioners, TVs (CRT, liquid crystal, and plasmatypes), refrigerators, freezers, washing machines, and driers.
Used motorcycles are collected for recycling by manufacturers. Please take them to the shop where purchased.

○Ikata-cho Citizen's Department: 38-2653 (Direct)○General Waste Final Disposal Facility: 39-0121 (Friday, 2:00pm - 4:00pm)○Seto Branch Citizen's Department : 52-0111○Misaki Branch Citizen's Department : 54-1111