Garbage and recycling

　Inagi City roughly divides unwanted items into five types: burnable garbage, non-burnable garbage, oversized garbage, harmful garbage, and recyclables. In total, we collected about 18,563 tons in one year, which is enough to fill 52 25-meter swimming pools at a school .

　Items that are no longer needed are collected and either burned as garbage or recycled as recyclables . Burning garbage causes "global warming," which raises the temperature of the entire earth, and has a negative impact on our lives.

　When throwing away items that you no longer need, please carefully consider whether they are “garbage” or “recyclables” and separate them before throwing them away.

　Garbage that we throw away at home is recycled and returned to us. Let's take a plastic bottle as an example this time.

　If you throw away plastic bottles of tea or juice you drank at home or outside, they will be taken to a recycling plant by garbage collectors.

　At the recycling plant, the PET bottles brought in are washed and shredded into small , easy-to-recycle materials ( flakes ).

　PET bottles that are easy to recycle are transported to a manufacturing plant . At this factory, flakes are used as materials to make various things such as "T-shirts" and "erasers" that everyone uses every day. Of course, some are remade as PET bottles.

　In this way, things made from recycled PET bottles are sold at shops and other places, and are returned to you once again.