how would the rubbish collector find out where the guy live?! thats creepy
It's a good practise to throw the rubbish base on the categories. I would like to see my country's government will impose this rule to the whole country so that it can help to preserve the earth
As for myself I do recycle stuff seriously (too bad the separation between each category of trash is not made in my region -lazy bums-). If I could do what you have to do every week, I would do it with pleasure, since I feel that no environment-friendly action is small enough. I almost have no combustible rubbish to get rid of, maybe in exception of some occasional banana skins. Lol, free manga and free electronic goods... But at least they get a second life. Nothing is wasted. Get back at you? Wow, talk about stalking ^_^ Danny, the greenie stormtrooper. That would make a nice title.
we do hav separate recycle bins in sydney but people just don't seem to care as they often get them confused so just throw cans/boxes/etc. into the non-recycle bins anyways...
Our local area doesn't recycle seriously as far as I know, but the people I live with do recycle, and I make sure to sort any trash I have for recycling. Comes on wednesdays, and you have to sort by cardboard, plastics, newspaper (newspaper gets its own special bin). Saves resources, and it saves a tree or three from being cut down.
Our region couldn't give a CRAP about recycling. I admire Japan's recycling program.
We pratice recycling in our office... we still use the other side of printed papers for simple documentations. Its cost-efficient. I work in a japanese company btw. Hope to be sent to Japan for a project soon.
my family practices recycling where old documents and cardboard boxes are cut and used as scratch papers ^^ i really wish that the philippine govt and the people would exercise recycling ~_~
It's great that Japan is really serious about their trash, even though it can sometimes be a pain, we burn our garbage here
Danny things have changed alot with regards to recycling here in the UK. Every household has been given one of those big green wheelie bins to dump their recyclable rubbish in. Though I hate it when the dustbin lorry arrives, always leaves a toilet stench in the air.
Recycling? Here? HA! Yeah right, the people aren't even decent enough to stop littering. They spit all over the streets whenever they feel like it and throw their cigarettes on the ground without even stepping on it. I hate my neighborhood so much... Anyway, I do separate my garbage. Cats have a really fun time scratching through those bags and messing up the garbage cans...the next thing you know, you get a ticket for that. I will never like cats ever again...
lol we don relli recycle here in hk we just get a big bag and throw it in da bin and wait for da truck to get it.
We're pretty good about recycling here in California most towns like mine have some form of curbside recycling. Then there is the money to be made selling your aluminum cans. When I was in college there were alway homeless guys running around in the morning digging through the trash for cans and picking up the beer bottles the frat boy left laying around. It got so bad that the college had to lock the recycling bins around campus to keep them out.
In the UK, i think recycling isn't all that bad, i mean there are ways it could be done better, but i think overall its pretty good. However, where i live, the recylce people, and the dustbin men (term for people who collect rubbish that i got used to xD) have started coming alot later, and now the recycle people only come once every 2 weeks, if they feel like it, and the dustbin men come late in the day so you spend half the day with nasty smelly rubbish outside your house -.-º On another note, I should be booking my holiday to Japan today!!! Hopefully i'll be going from 24th August to 30th August, i was aiming for october or december, but for various reasons they were a no go, so i was just wondering, what is the temperature like at the end of August? I looked up some mean temperatures on the internet, and the highest i saw was 27º but i wasn't sure about that, so maybe you could help? ^_^ Thankyou in advance, and happy recycling!
Hey Danny, I couldn't find your email and I'm in a hurry to get to bed. I just found this just now and I was wondering if you've seen it. http://cgi.ebay.com/ONEGAI-PLEASE-TEACHER-SEXY-KAZAMI-MIZUHO-DESSERT-FIGURE_W0QQitemZ330103356667QQihZ014QQcategoryZ1345QQtcZphotoQQcmdZViewItem I don't think you give permission to this seller use it and sell fake figures on ebay. Just letting you know. Corruption/Abuse these days...
The recycling system in the UK is a joke - they take recycled rubbish one week and everything else the next, so it means that for two weeks, you have rat-attracting food waste festering in your bin before it's taken away. As for the recyclable rubbish, no cardboard will be taken if its got food on it, and they don't take glass. On the whole, crap!
I believe that the recycling system in France is a bigger joke than in UK (I read a few posts ...). Each person has to buy containers upon their own will, when full carry them by car to the main containers (because they are too far) and then get the personal containers back home (all dirty in my new Atenza). People are, in general, a little lazy so they don't really bother in putting things in separate containers so all goes in the main trashcan. We also have these recycling places where we can take all our random trash (plants, electronics, oils, ...) but there again, we have to take it by car. One place in france setup a system where each home user has a personal, locked, container that is weighed when the dustmen come to empty it and their local taxes are calculated accordingly (less rubbish = less taxe). That is a good idea that should be globalized but then I also belive the dustmen should also pickup even the separate containers (recycled).
I like how Japan takes recycling seriously. I'm currently over in Australia on holiday and I like how people have to purchase Green bags for supermarketing instead of having to throw it in plastic bags. Sad thing is that back at home, people don't really care about recycling. So much for a green and clean country :/
That's a interesting post, nice to see that people in Japan care about recycling. They tried to do something much simpler than that here in the city where I live but it didn't work because people didn't care about that and they would not separate the garbage, they would just throw everything in just one bag. In my house we separate the garbage according to the type.
My apartment complex provides bins to seperate out newspaper and plastic containers, but it's voluntary. Nobody will knock on your door if they find plastic bottles in with the regular trash. They don't have anything to seperate out aluminum cans though, which is kind of weird.
Here in Michigan no, but when I lived in Florida we did recycle. We didn't separate burnable and non-burnable items. I wonder if any place in the state has that level of recycling... We had a blue plastic container called "Big Blue" for for plastic, glass and metal. As well as, an orange container for paper items. Come to think of it, we had to pay extra and arrange a pickup for larger items. Yes, If you messed up repeatedly with your recycling, the recycling collectors would leave you instruction on how to separate your recyclable trash.
what happened to the darth vader suit? just wondering.
in the UK you now have to recycle.
Hi Danny, sorry to interrupt you with a problem, but if I want to look your past post about non-paint Gundam technics I just can see the the first up to the third pictures. So where is the rest? If I click "Read the rest of this post" or "[click through] to view all images" it's still show me the 3 pictures. Sorry if my English is that bad so that you don't understand me! Hope that you can fix the problem! Many Thanks! Greet Shin!
Shin222, Could you provide me with a url? Astroblue, Soon. TNTPOP, That sucks! Gav, I didnt know about the cardboard-food thing! Ken, Cant be bothered with them. But thanks for the heads up. Arekusu, That time will be very very hot indeed! Ken, You need some bear traps for the cats. Superoshi, I tie a knot in it.
When I lived in Tokyo, I always looked forward to recycling day, as it was the only time I KNEW I was doing the whole garbage thing correctly. Burnable and unburnable trash, I could never quite figure out, but determining if something was recyclable or not was almost always a piece of cake.
Sure, sorry I forgot it! http://www.dannychoo.com/blog_entry/eng/585/Gundam/
Shin222, Ah - looks like you spotted a bug for me - will fix it soon (ish) ^^;
Shin222, Bug fixed! (and thanks for pointing it out)
are there many people recycle while cosplaying in japan?
At where I live, the only thing we recycle are plastic bags from shops as trash bags and there is an organization that collects old newspapers twice a month. Everything else is thrown away as garbage probably due to the lack of recycling bins.
No we try, but I dont see results!! It still looks like a shithole ... at least we play ok RUGBY!!
I seen similar in some US cites except I do not remember having to dry anything out they took care of that at the plant. The most advanced systems I seen was in Tokyo teleport town and in California a system that required no sorting on the consumers' part. All sorting was done via machines and workers at the recycling plant . The experimental plant in California also generated all it own power from trash that was burned in a gasification cycle incinerator. Also in most US cities there are places that will actually pay you for any scrap metals you need to have disposed of such as aluminum cans,old HDs if you remove the platters or that old set of stock heads,exhaust manifolds and water pump you replaced on your latest hotrod project. Basically anything aluminum ,steel/cast iron,copper, or brass
The village where I live an coincidently the village where my girlfriend lives where the first locations to try a new recycling method. Not that its really different. Its just individual underground bins for Food, plastic and metal, paper and wood, glass and batteries and last one for "rebuig" which would be stuff from the hover or from sweeping. Problem is that the food bags are organic and in the summer they start to discompose after a few days.
People don't seem to bother about recycling at all, they just find a rubbish bin and throw everything there... If they can't find a rubbish bin, then to the floor the rubbish goes... Japan sure is neat, are they any road sweepers there? We have a few here...
People here make it a point to throw stuff on the road, even when the trash can is next to them and they know it is!!!
