YAKUSHIMA WASTE SORTING GUIDE (Kuchinoerabujima area) - simplified version Trash Types of DesignatedTrash Bags
Days

Trash Bags for
Burnable
Garbage（Green）

Sorting
Categories

Burnable
Garbage

List of Examples
・Clothes, footwear, leather goods (without metal fasteners), etc. ・Stuffedanimals (without any metal parts), towels, pet waste, branches, clamshells,animal bones, etc. ・Soiled paper, vinyl and plastic products/items (disposable
diapers, used tissues, cooking oil bottles, etc.), etc.
油Trash Bags for
Raw Garbage(Biodegradable)

Trash Bags for
Recyclable
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Trash Bags for
Recyclable
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Trash Bags for&Recyclable
Thu.
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Trash Bags for
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Leftover food, cooking scraps, fish bones, shrimp and crab shells, eggshells, etc.
Biodegradable
Raw Garbage*Drain off excess liquid and make sure thatyou only have raw garbage in your trash bag.

Paper-made containers and packagings, etc.

*Only clean paper
items are Recyclable
Garbage.

Plastic items and vinyl products*Only clean plastic
items are RecyclableGarbage.

Paper Trash

Plastics(Aluminum/Steel)Cans andContainers

Aluminum/Steel cans (cans for beverages, food, milk
powder, cookies, etc), aluminum foil, crown bottle
caps, metal lids, aerosol spray cans, gas
cartridges/canisters, etc.
Various plastic bottles with 'PET 1' recycling symbol

PET Plastic
Bottles*Rinse and dry the bottles. (Plastic caps and labels must be put in a
separate trash bag and disposed as 'Plastic' garbage.)
Glass bottles and jars (including broken bottles)

・1.8ℓ bottles and beer bottles inJapan are reused. ⇒Take themto liquor shops or keep them for'Kodomo-kai' glass bottle
collecting activities.

Trash Bags for
Recyclable
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Glass Bottles
and Jars

Trash Bags for
Recyclable
Garbage(Transparent)

Expanded Polystyrene foam products and all Styrofoam trays
ExpandedPolystyrene*Please separate and dispose of cup noodle containers
foam products
according to its recycling symbols,or.

Designatedgarbage
Stickers

Various cardboard boxes, newspapers, magazines, books, catalogs, leaflets, etc.
・Cardboard・Newspapers・Books,Magazines andLeaflets*Tie crosswise with string into a bundle no more than 10 kg and have a sticker on each bundle.

Trash Bags forRecyclable
Garbage(Transparent)'Kogata sodai Non-burnable garbage that fit in Designated Trash Bags for Recyclable Garbage
gomi' (nonburnablegarbage)

Sat.
Designatedgarbage
Stickers※Dispose metal lids andcaps as recyclable 'Can'garbage.

Bulky, Large Waste *Tie mattresses, beddings, and carpets into a bundle with strings before disposing.

The first & third
Saturday(Designatedcollection centers)【Designated Collection Centers: Local community centers and local community meeting places】○ All light tubes/bulbs (If broken, carefully wrap it in paper.)○ Dry cell batteries: Nickel-cadmium batteries should be separeted from manganese, alkaline, and lithium batteries.
○ Paper beverage cartons with recycling symbol(Rinse and flatten cartons)○ Waste cooking oil (Please put waste cooking oil into waste oil collection drum cans.)*Take your garbage to the designated collecting places on collection days by 8:30 a.m. All trash must be placed indesignated trash bags or have a designated garbage sticker on it.
[Environmental Health Section, Yakushima Town Office]