Trash Sorting and Disposal Instructions
Please separate your garbage thoroughly and co-operate in reducing the amount of waste.

Please check the collection day on the back of these instructions and fill in the collection day in your area.

Burnable Trash
Kitchen Waste

Plastic Containers
and Packaging

Vegetables, fruit scraps,
leftovers, fish, shellfish
Please drain
kitchen garbage well.

Confectionery bags,
polyethylene bags,
plastic wrap, egg packs,
unrecyclable PET
bottles, etc.

Please put out your trashby 8 a.m. in the morning on every

Collection Day
Twice a Week

Other Plastics

Household Waste
Cooking Oil

CDs, DVDs, toys,
cassette tapes,stockings, styrofoam,
plastic bottle lids

Use a rag to soak up
the oil or solidify itwith a coagulant.

Rubber, Leather

Paper Waste

Tissue paper, oil paper,
vinyl-coated paper,
laminated paper
such as gold pasting.
Unrecycable paper
such as carbon paper.

Bags, school bags,shoes, balls, boots,
rubber gloves,slippers, etc.

・Wood Waste

Unrecyclable
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FibersPlease cut wood waste
into small pieces andtake the leaves off
pruned branches.
(Length of about 50cm,thickness of about
10cm or less per piece)
Do not put it into
a bag, but tie up intoa manageable bundle.

Cotton clothes,underwear, socks,curtains, quilted clothing,cushions, pillows,
stuffed animals, futons,
disposable diapers●Please put it in the trash bag designated by Sakuragawa City and tie the bag up well.
●For food waste disposal at home, please use compost.
●Do not use cardboard boxes as trash containers, and do not put paper, cans and bottles that can be recycled into burnable trash.
●Collection occurs even on public holidays. Please check the city’s PR magazine for collection during the New Year holidays.

Recyclable Trash
Collection Day
Once a Month

Unburnable Trash

Please put out
between 8~9 a.m. on theSunday every month.

How to Sort Recyclable Trash
Newspapers,
Leaflets

PaperCartons

Fold cardboard
Approx. 1 month’s
Milk cartons,
into a size approx.
worth of newspapers juice, etc.
60~80 cms and tie
and leaflets should be Tie into a bundle of into a bundle with Tie into a bundle.
folded into quarters
about 20~30 packs. a height of approx. (Height approx.
and tied into a bundle ×Excludes liquor 20cm.
30cm)(approx. 60cm high, packs with silver ×Remove foreign
approx. 8kg weight). backs.
materials such as
adhesive tape.

Clear
Bottles

Brown
Bottles

Green
Bottles

Beer bottles,
Japanese sakewhiskey bottles, etc. bottles, etc.
×Excludes bottles of pesticides, harmful
substances, and cosmetics.
Remove the lid, empty the inside and wash with water.
Sort bottles into colorless, green, and brown.

Drink bottles, etc.

PET
Bottles

Soft drinks,
liquor containers
×Excludes
bottles of oil
Remove the lidand label, empty
the inside andwash with water.

※The hours may vary depending on the district,so be sure to check with the representative ofthe district.

How to Sort Unburnable Trash

Cardboard Magazines MiscellaneousPapers
boxes

Glass

Fibers

Aluminum
Cans

Empty the inside andwash with water.

Ceramics

How to Dispose of

How to Sort

Hazardous Trash
Batteries

Dangerous Trash

Unrecyclable clothing
and small fabrics
Put thin paper other than textiles
into a bag and should be wrapped
tie into a bundle. in a large cloth and(Height approx. bundled. (Approx.
20cm)
40cm2, heightapprox. 40cm)

SteelCans

Hazardous
Waste

Please dispose of recyclable
trash and non-burnable trash
during the given collection times.

Ashtrays, glass vases,
oil, agriculture,cosmetics bottles,
incandescent bulbs,
LED bulbs,
miniature light bulbs,
glow lamps, glasses,
lenses, etc.
Put the broken trash ina bag and throw it away.
Empty the bottle andwash it with water.

Teacups, plates,
flower pots,
ceramic vases

Small Appliances

MetalsCutlery, Pottery
Broken Glass
Please put in a bag,etc.

Hot water pot, radio
cassette players,
rice cookers, irons,
circulator fans, etc.
It must be small enoughto fit in a bag.
×Remove removable
Pans, kettles,
or rechargeable batteries aluminum foil,
from devices such as
empty cans that
cordless vacuum cleaners. cannot be recycled,
Dispose of removed
batteries and rechargeable etc.
batteries in hazardous waste.

Razor and cutter blades,
drawing pins, needles
Please put into a
container with a lid,such as a plastic
container or can.

Disposable Lighters

Since there is a risk ofignition, separate it
and put it in atransparent bag.

Spray Cans
Make a hole in awell-ventilated placeand crush the can so thatyou can see the hole.

Dry batteries, button-typebatteries, rechargeable
batteries, or built-in devices(e-cigarettes, mobilebatteries, etc.)
Be sure to separate them,as there is a risk of ignition.

Fluorescent Lamps

Straight tube,
round, bulbs
Broken fluorescent lamps
are discarded alongwith glass.

Products that
include Mercury
Mercury thermometers,
mercury blood pressure
monitors, etc.

●When disposing of recyclable, unburnable, dangerous trash or hazardous waste, please put it in the designated basket at the collection point.
●Please put unburnable trash in a special bag for unburnable trash designated by Sakuragawa City. All trash should be limited to a size thatfits into the designated bag.
●Since the collection point is different from burnable trash, if you are newly moving into an apartment, etc., please be sure to consult with arepresentative of the district and confirm the location. (You can also check the location with the QR code on the back.).
●If the first Sunday of January is the beginning of the year, the collection will be carried out the following week. (For example: A district thatcollects on the first Sunday of the month will collect on the second Sunday, all subsequent collections will be 1 week late.)●Recyclables (recyclable trash) are sold and money returned to the community.
Oversize Trash
Temporary Large Amount of Garbage

We plan to collect it four times a year (in May and September for futons and wood, and in June and November for iron, waste plastic, and other).
The schedule will be announced in a letter from the mayor and at each government building.
Please bring it to the Environmental Center yourself. For details, please refer to the Environmental Center website. (Paid disposal)

Agricultural Plastic

We are planning to collect it in the city. The schedule will be announced by the Agriculture and Forestry Division in a letter from the mayor.

Business-related trash

Trash generated from business activities※Excluding industrial waste.

OthersPlease ask a licensed contractor from the city or bring it to the Environmental Center yourself.
For a list of licensed contractors, please check the city's website.

Hazardous materials (propane gas cylinders, paint, paint thinners, fire extinguishers, chemicals,pesticides, etc.), construction waste, automobile parts, sand, soil, stones, specified homeappliances (displays with tuners, TVs, refrigerators, freezers, heat insulators, clothes dryers,
washing machines, air conditioners), safes, tires for large vehicles, motorcycles (90cc or more)
Please contact the store where you purchased the product for the disposal method.

●For information about how to dispose of garbage that is not listed, pleasecontact the Community Environment Division.
●All users are responsible for the maintenance of the collection point and should
always keep it clean.

ContactSakuragawa City
Living Environment Division☎0296-75-3111

Chikusei Municipal Affairs Association Environmental Center
Please bring only general trash during business-trash collection times. Industrial waste cannot be brought in.

Available Days Weekdays, 1st Sunday of Every MonthTime
8:30 a.m. ~ 11:45 a.m. 1:00 p.m. ~ 4:30 p.m.
FeeHousehold waste ¥100 /10kg Business-related waste ¥200 /10kg

Chikusei Municipal Affairs Association
Environmental Center（658 Shimokawashima, Chikusei City） ☎0296-33-3755